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Re: Best combination Pro-Amateur Careers
Posted: 17 Aug 2012, 16:14
by BoxBuzz
Hey, No time for that, I'm too busy sweepin' the floors.
Re: Best combination Pro-Amateur Careers
Posted: 18 Aug 2012, 09:35
by p4p1
Expug wrote:Ambling Alp wrote:Expug wrote:Goin back a few years. Fidel Labarba
That is a good pick.
Have to consider Ray Robinson. He had a great amateur career and of course a great pro career as well.
A few others worth mentioning:
Joe Louis
Pascual Perez
Sonny Liston
Floyd Patterson
Nino Benvenuti
Thomas Hearns
Evander Holyfield
Lennox Lewis.
Was Ray undefeated in the am's Alp? I seem to recall that. Not sure though.I think he may have fought there at 135 pounds too. He was probably unstopable.
by all reports he was undefeated something like 85 - 0, but i believe he really started to get attention while he was at 125
Re: Best combination Pro-Amateur Careers
Posted: 18 Aug 2012, 16:21
by Giancarlo
85-2
Re: Best combination Pro-Amateur Careers
Posted: 20 Aug 2012, 13:42
by Nile4000
Holyfield
Leonard
Whitaker
McCallum
Curry
Pryor
M.Spinks
Dokes.
Re: Best combination Pro-Amateur Careers
Posted: 21 Aug 2012, 04:15
by clubberlang
Good picks, surprised these Four went unmentioned, The below were great amateurs, who went on to have in descending order a great, excellent x 2 & good pro careers.
Kostya Tzyu
Vernon Forest
Antonio Tarver
Mark Breland
Re: Best combination Pro-Amateur Careers
Posted: 04 Sep 2012, 08:22
by orbtastic
"According to Pep he and Sugar Ray fought as amateurs in Norwich, Connecticut in 1938. Robinson supposedly won the decision and weighed in at 128 to Willie's 110."
I'm sure I have read this elsewhere too, perhaps a biography?
Re: Best combination Pro-Amateur Careers
Posted: 04 Sep 2012, 13:37
by Ambling Alp
I thought I take a look the book "In this Corner". In it, Pep said they did fight and that Robinson won. He said that Robinson was much bigger than him. Robinson didn't talk about it at all.