Heralded amateurs getting stopped in first fight?

[wrighty]

I can't imagine this has ever happened in the pro game, but has a star amateur such as an Olympic medalist, aba champ or the likes ever been banged out in their first ever match in the paid ranks? The only one I can think of is Pete Radamacher who challenged Patterson for the title in his first match in the pros.

[Riddick Bowie]

Michael Bentt

[HomicideHenry]

One great amateur boxer that comes to mind who's professional career went nowhere was Clay Hodges. He had defeated George Foreman in the amateurs. He was 3-1-0 as a pro. Later on he would become an actor starring as Jess Willard in the movie DEMPSEY with Treat Williams. But that's an entirely different matter.

[bennie]

A wee Scot by the name of Joe Kelly boasted a brilliant international career in the unpaid ranks. He turned pro in 1985 with Terry Lawless, one of the biggest managers in boxing, but suffered a devastating defeat in his pro debut when he was smashed in three rounds by fellow Scot Bobby "Sherbert" McDermott. Lawless dropped Kelly like a stone.

[Coco]

A wee Scot by the name of Joe Kelly boasted a brilliant international career in the unpaid ranks. He turned pro in 1985 with Terry Lawless, one of the biggest managers in boxing, but suffered a devastating defeat in his pro debut when he was smashed in three rounds by fellow Scot Bobby "Sherbert" McDermott. Lawless dropped Kelly like a stone.

Joe Kelly ended up being a good pro.

I heard a story that Andre Agassi's dad went to the Olympics for Iran but on his pro debut did a runner out of the toilet window and never fought again.

[Caractacus]

The Brown Bomber hmiself-Joe Louis\was stopped in his first amateur bout
( I seem to remember reading anyway).

[orbtastic]

Pete Rademacher