If you had to pick an amatear fighter that you thought was going to do really well as an pro today which fighter would you pick ?
My amatear knowledge is fairly limited but like to keep an eye on things to see if anybody looks like making it as a future star. I'd prob say Gamboa at Bantam or Tishenko at Feather but thats based on both winning the Olympics and the the Worlds.
Which amateur would make the best Pro ?
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El Raincoat
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locoxelbox
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El Raincoat
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Alot of the Russians tend to stay in the amatear's longer and then enter the pro game later in there career's. Just recently Dzindziruk & Karmazin won titles (Great fight if it happened have they fought as amatear's ?) Whats the deal with Tishenko how good is he ? Anyone know much about him ? How likely is it that he'll turn pro ?
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holeymoley99
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Stock
I'd buy stock in Jeremy Bryan the kid from South Carolina who won both the Golden Gloves and PAL championships this year. He has both power as well as speed and seems to have a good head on his shoulders. If you dont know his name you will. Here is a very good recent piece on him.
PATERSON - Jeremy Bryan could've hammered Max Aguayo with power punches on Saturday afternoon, the way he opened up on his previous opponent three weeks earlier.
The Paterson native preferred patience, though. Instead, the talented technician systematically picked apart Aguayo en route to a lopsided points victory, one that left his overmatched opponent all but out on his feet.
Bryan, one of the premier amateur boxers in the country, is showing similar patience outside of the ring.
Many managers, promoters and others in the boxing business are attempting to entice the Clifton resident to turn professional. They're at the gym, amateur tournaments, around town. And they're all telling a 19-year-old from a modest economic environment that they can help him immediately, if he'll just forget about amateur boxing.
But Bryan is fending them off as adeptly as he avoids opponents' punches.
More than anything else, Bryan wants to represent the United States at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He intends to prove his desire by sacrificing financially for a couple more years while attempting to ready himself for Olympic qualification. Although American Olympians can no longer secure signing bonuses comparable to those that were paid in 1996 and 2000, Bryan realizes that Olympic participation could help him recoup the money he'll have lost over the next couple years by remaining an amateur.
"Everybody's asking me about it, saying, 'Go pro. Go pro,' " Bryan said. "But I'm not ready for that yet physically, so I'm going to try and make the Olympic team. That's my goal and that's my family's goal. If I can't make the team, then I'll turn pro."
While many amateurs maintain dreams of Olympic glory, Bryan's goal seems more realistic.
He has won back-to-back 141-pound titles at the National Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions. The former Eastside High School student was so dominant in capturing a second national title two months ago in Little Rock, Ark., that none of the five fighters he defeated won a round against him. The supremacy earned Bryan (67-12) the No. 5 spot in USA Boxing's second-quarter national rankings for fighters in his weight class.
His trainers, Paterson's Joe Grier and Clifton's Frank Toledo Sr., are even more impressed with how the humble Bryan handles himself when he takes his gloves off.
Polite and respectful, Bryan also demonstrated discipline in essentially training himself the last three years in Sumter, S.C., where he moved with his mother following his freshman year at Eastside. He has shown loyalty, too, in returning to Grier's gym on River Street now that he has moved back to the area to live with an uncle. Bryan began boxing there when he was 10, and trained there regularly for six years before moving.
"I'm so happy to have him back around," Grier said, "because a guy like Jeremy makes all your kids better. Everybody goes to another level because they have him as an example. He's the type of kid that will really bond a team, because everybody wants to be like him. I've got some good kids here, but Jeremy's the exception. He's due that respect, that's what he has earned.
"It just amazes me how stable he remains under all the pressure. If anyone needed his economic situation to get better, it's this kid. So to see the life that he lives and the way he is able to get through all of that and maintain his integrity, I'm tremendously proud of him."
PATERSON - Jeremy Bryan could've hammered Max Aguayo with power punches on Saturday afternoon, the way he opened up on his previous opponent three weeks earlier.
The Paterson native preferred patience, though. Instead, the talented technician systematically picked apart Aguayo en route to a lopsided points victory, one that left his overmatched opponent all but out on his feet.
Bryan, one of the premier amateur boxers in the country, is showing similar patience outside of the ring.
Many managers, promoters and others in the boxing business are attempting to entice the Clifton resident to turn professional. They're at the gym, amateur tournaments, around town. And they're all telling a 19-year-old from a modest economic environment that they can help him immediately, if he'll just forget about amateur boxing.
But Bryan is fending them off as adeptly as he avoids opponents' punches.
More than anything else, Bryan wants to represent the United States at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He intends to prove his desire by sacrificing financially for a couple more years while attempting to ready himself for Olympic qualification. Although American Olympians can no longer secure signing bonuses comparable to those that were paid in 1996 and 2000, Bryan realizes that Olympic participation could help him recoup the money he'll have lost over the next couple years by remaining an amateur.
"Everybody's asking me about it, saying, 'Go pro. Go pro,' " Bryan said. "But I'm not ready for that yet physically, so I'm going to try and make the Olympic team. That's my goal and that's my family's goal. If I can't make the team, then I'll turn pro."
While many amateurs maintain dreams of Olympic glory, Bryan's goal seems more realistic.
He has won back-to-back 141-pound titles at the National Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions. The former Eastside High School student was so dominant in capturing a second national title two months ago in Little Rock, Ark., that none of the five fighters he defeated won a round against him. The supremacy earned Bryan (67-12) the No. 5 spot in USA Boxing's second-quarter national rankings for fighters in his weight class.
His trainers, Paterson's Joe Grier and Clifton's Frank Toledo Sr., are even more impressed with how the humble Bryan handles himself when he takes his gloves off.
Polite and respectful, Bryan also demonstrated discipline in essentially training himself the last three years in Sumter, S.C., where he moved with his mother following his freshman year at Eastside. He has shown loyalty, too, in returning to Grier's gym on River Street now that he has moved back to the area to live with an uncle. Bryan began boxing there when he was 10, and trained there regularly for six years before moving.
"I'm so happy to have him back around," Grier said, "because a guy like Jeremy makes all your kids better. Everybody goes to another level because they have him as an example. He's the type of kid that will really bond a team, because everybody wants to be like him. I've got some good kids here, but Jeremy's the exception. He's due that respect, that's what he has earned.
"It just amazes me how stable he remains under all the pressure. If anyone needed his economic situation to get better, it's this kid. So to see the life that he lives and the way he is able to get through all of that and maintain his integrity, I'm tremendously proud of him."
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