Amateurs who vanquished future top pros

[Wales]

Im fairly sure Joe calzaghe and Chris Byrd met at some point in the amateurs, can anyone confirm?

[Nile4000]

Davey Moore-Pedro Villela

[Yaras72]

1983:
Seniors:
Werner Kohnert (GER) - Craig Payne (pts)
Phillipp (GER) - Henry Tillman (pts)
Jose Gomez (CUB) - Virgil Hill (pts)
Hermenegildo Baez (CUB) - Henry Tillmann (pts)
Hipolito Ramos (CUB) - Paul Gonzales (pts)
Julio Quintana (CUB) - Evander Holyfield (pts)
Shawn O`Sullivan (CAN) - Frank Tate (pts)
Yong Mo Huh (KOR) - Jeff Fenech (pts)
Yuri Alexandrov (USSR)- Jesse Benavides (pts)
Noe Cruciani (ITA) - Virgil Hill (pts)
Vitaly Kachanovsky (USSR) - Ricky Womack (pts)
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Juniors:
Ricardo Echeverria (CUB) - Orzubek Nazarov (USSR) pts

[KOJOE90]

Clint Jackson-Mike McCallum.

Clint Jackson from what I've seen was a very good amateur fighter. Didn't he train McCallum for a while (when Mike was a professional)?

D.C Barker-Leon Spinks.

Anymore ifo on this? Was this the fight around 74/75 when Spinks got stopped in the 1st round?

Emory Chapman-John Tate.

That was a brutal KO. Chapman was a tremendous puncher.

[KOJOE90]

Im fairly sure Joe calzaghe and Chris Byrd met at some point in the amateurs, can anyone confirm?

That rings a bell with me. I think Joe won.

[Nile4000]

Clint Jackson-Mike McCallum.

Clint Jackson from what I've seen was a very good amateur fighter. Didn't he train McCallum for a while (when Mike was a professional)?

D.C Barker-Leon Spinks.

Anymore ifo on this? Was this the fight around 74/75 when Spinks got stopped in the 1st round?

Emory Chapman-John Tate.

That was a brutal KO. Chapman was a tremendous puncher.

Actually, Clint did train Mike sometime after he stopped him in 1974.And the Barker fight was the one where Spinks got stopped in.

[KOJOE90]

Nile4000

[locoxelbox]

Im fairly sure Joe calzaghe and Chris Byrd met at some point in the amateurs, can anyone confirm?

Why didn't Calzaghe fight at the 1992 Olympics? Didn't he qualify? If he beat Byrd, who won silver, he must have been really good at the moment.

[jasonb]

Prince Naseem Hamed beaten by Michael Brittingham in 1990? Mel might know better than I, but Buddy Shaw told me that Brittingham put it on Prince as part of a JO dual between the 1990 champions. He said Hamed was crying. Any truth to that Mel?

[ARamos3]

Prince Naseem Hamed beaten by Michael Brittingham in 1990? Mel might know better than I, but Buddy Shaw told me that Brittingham put it on Prince as part of a JO dual between the 1990 champions. He said Hamed was crying. Any truth to that Mel?

I remember this, but i remember it being a close bout.

[joeboxer]

hasim rahman was ko'd in round 2 vs. joe mesi.
audley harrison has a pair of losses to cengiz koc.

[jmc617]

Haha this is my kinda thread

Embedded some opponents with the video from my youtube channel nyamateurboxing. The ones with multiple parts I just threw up on my site so you wouldn't have any problems finding part 2 and 3's. I think it's a tag issue on youtube still have to fix it.

DaVarryll Williamson - Calvin Brock (USA) (These two met several times), 2 x Nate Jones (USA), Mark Simmons (CAN), Felix Savon (CUBA, 1KO), Jason Estrada (USA), Garth da Silva (NZEL), Michael Bennett (USA), Malik Scott (USA)

Michael Moorer - Orestos Solano (CUBA), Gerald McClellan (USA) RSC1, Viktor Yegorov (USSR)

Jeremy Williams - Sergey Klotov (USSR)KO3, Andrey Kurniavka I (USSR) - (avenged later that year at a USA-USSR duel), Montell Griffen III, Montell Griffen IV. I have heard these were the only fights Jeremy lost as an OPEN class amateur can somebody confirm.

Darius Michalchewski - Jeremy Williams (USA)

Dale Brown - Jeremy Williams (USA), Roberto Alvarez (CUBA), Orestes Solano (CUBA), Andrey Kurniavka (USSR), Alexei Ilin (RUS), Torsten May (GER), 2 x Ramon Garbey (CUBA, pts & 4TKO), Stephen Kirk (IRL), Paul Rogers (GBR)

John Ruiz - Jeremy Williams I (USA), Jeremy Williams II (USA), Jeremy Williams III (USA)

Kelly Pavlik - Jermain Taylor (USA), Anthony Hanshaw (USA), Sechew Powell (USA)
Peter Manfredo jr. - 2x Jermain Taylor (RSC2, W4), Sechew Powell, Randy Griffin
Paul Malignaggi - Darling Jimenez I (RSC4), Darling Jimenez II (DEC), Darling Jimenez IV (DEC), Rock Allen, Vincente Escobedo
Dmitriy Salita - Kendall Holt, 2x Chad Dawson, Raymond Biggs
Yuri Foreman - Luis Collazo
Andre Dirrell - Yudiel Napoles (CUBA) RSC2, 2x Andre Berto, Larry Gonzales, Lamont Peterson
Tiger Allen - Andre Dirrell, Steven Luevano, Rocky Juarez, Chad Aquino
Steven Luevano - Rocky Juarez
Rock Allen - Lamont Peterson, Andre Dirrell, Marshall Martinez
Breidis Prescott - Rock Allen
Vincente Escobedo - Lorenzo Reynolds, Verquan Kimbrough, Tyrone Harris
Henry Crawford - Rock Allen RSC4
Danny 'Little Mac' McDermott - Henry Crawford, Marco Aruz (Not top just yet but had to throw this one in there.)
Anthony Peterson - 2x Vincente Escobedo
Verquan Kimbrough - Luis Merced
Andre Berto - Vanes Martirosyan
Jean Pascal - Alfredo Angulo
Lukas Wilaschek - Andrey Mishin (RUS) KO2, Oleg Mashkin (UKR), Gaidarbek Gaidarbekov (RUS) KO3
Andy Lee - Lukas Wilaschek (ALL), Hassan Ndam Njikam (CAM), Gennady Golovkin (KAZ), Noelvis Diaz (CUBA)
Tomaz Adamek - Lukas Wilaschek (ALL)
Curtis Stevens - Jaidon Codrington
Alexandre Alexseev - Odlanier Solis I, Odlanier Solis II

Darling Jimenez - Paul Malignaggi III (3-1 in there meetings), Henry Crawford, Rocky Juarez, Vincente Escobedo, Marshall Christmas, Verquan Kimbrough

Darnell Wilson - 2x Kelly Pavlik (USA), Sechew Powell (USA), Jeff Clarke (USA), David Reid (USA), Utkirbek Gajdarov (UZB), Esfandiar Mohammadi (IRAN), Karoly Balzsay (HUN), Jani Rauhala (FIN), Juan Carlos Hernandez (CUBA), Anthony Hanshaw (USA), Jorge Guttierrez (CUBA), Sergey Kostenko (UKR)

Alfredo Angulo - Andre Dirrell, Andy Lee, Andrey Balanov (RUS), Juan Ubaldo Cabrera (R.D), Lukas Wilaschek (All) KO2, Karoly Balzsay (Hon), Juan Mc Pherson (E-U), Omar Coffi (Ven) (later avenged loss)

[jmc617]

Victor Ortiz - Amir Khan
Amir Khan - Mario Kindelan
Andreas Kotelnik - Mario Kindelan

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

Calzaghe beat Byrd in amateurs...Eric Fagan from Rhode Island beat BRIAN VILORIA, CHAD DAWSON AND MIKE OLIVER. Then never went pro.

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

Dawson won two decisions over Salita...I was there for at least one of them...Dawson also beat Delvin Rodriguez in Chad's first ever open class fight (at 147)...

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

ONE OF THESE LINKS HAS JUST WHAT U ARE LOOKING FOR...SOME "UNSUNG HERO'S" (LIKE FAGAN)

Note: REPLACE "SPAM" WITH "maxbox" (you know the site :)

Who Beat Who: Tales from the Amateurs – Part One
http://www.maxboxing.com/news/Scully013108.asp

Who Beat Who: Tales from the Amateurs – Part Two
http://www.maxboxing.com/News/Scully020308.asp

Who Beat Who: Tales from the Amateurs – Part Three
http://www.maxboxing.com/News/Scully022508.asp

Who Beat Who: Tales from the Amateurs – Part Four
http://www.maxboxing.com/News/Scully031308.asp

Who Beat Who: Tales from the Amateurs – Part Five
http://www.maxboxing.com/News/Scully040308.asp

Who Beat Who: Tales from the Amateurs – Part Six
http://www.maxboxing.com/news/Scully062408.asp

Who Beat Who: Tales from the Amateurs – Part Seven
http://www.maxboxing.com/news/Scully071408.asp

Who Beat Who: Tales from the Amateurs – Part Eight
http://www.maxboxing.com/News/Scully082208.asp

[ERIC GUY]

some great info there
Amir Khan got beat in the schoolboy finals by Robert Ward

[delisa]

Dennis Milton over : Iran Barkley, Reggie Johnson, Michael Nunn, and Frank Tate

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

Yea, man, DENNIS MILTON was an amateur STAR back in the days when amateur boxing was a MUCH tougher game..no comp scoring...Dennis and Frank Tate were the 1-2 at 156 pounds, both of them very experienced at the International level...

[jmc617]

Gerrie Coetzee and Kallie Knoetze met 6 times and split 3 matches each

Frans Botha - Corrie Sanders (Four amateur wins against Frans Botha two by stoppage)
Duncan Dokiwari - Ike Ibeabuchi (Ike supposedly knocked Duncan out with a body shot in the first round. - THE REAL NINJA BS), Danny Williams (stopped Duncan in the 2nd Duncan would later avenge this loss.)

Curtis Stevens - Allen Green, Jaidon Codrington
Tavoris Cloud - Allen Green, Curtis Stevens, Clemente Russo
Allen Green - De Andrey Abron, Khary Foxworth
Edinson Miranda - Jhim Rodriguez of venezuela - It was KO1 Miranda gets hit so hard he spins around (duran-barkley style)(Jerson Ravelo later knocked out Rodriguez in this tournament) Jerson said the guy hit so hard that when he threw a left hook Jhim's glove hit his own glove into his chin and knocked him out standing up then he hit him again and woke him up.

Deontay Wilder - Clemente Russo

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

Tavoris Cloud also lost to a kid here from Connecticut named Brian Macy...Macy also beat Chad Dawson when Chad was about 11 or so..they split bouts with each other...

[jmc617]

samson po'uha - larry donald
darroll wilson - samson po'uha (quarter-finals of the 92 nationals - close decision)
zejlko mavoric - hyun-man baek, dannell nicholson, bert teuchert, yevgeny sudakov
giacobbe fragomeni - ruslan chagaev, isael alvarez (CUB), kevin evans, mohammed benguesmia

james stanton - samson po'uha (not so top as a pro)

[Unit]

I pulled the chair on Mike Oliver in the 06 golden gloves then ran while laughing hysterically & got the best of matt remillard in sparring when I was like 16, does that count?

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

No, it doesnt count :)

[craigjenkins05]

Im fairly sure Joe calzaghe and Chris Byrd met at some point in the amateurs, can anyone confirm?

Why didn't Calzaghe fight at the 1992 Olympics? Didn't he qualify? If he beat Byrd, who won silver, he must have been really good at the moment.

yeah calzaghe beat chris byrd as an amatuer dont know what happened with the olympics i know hw lost at the 1990 European Junior Championships in Prague