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Olympic Joe Frazier
Olympic George Foreman
Olympic Lennox Lewis
Olympic Tyrell Biggs
Oympic Wladimir Klitschko
Olympic Pete Rademacher
Olympic Muhammad Ali (LWH)
Olympic Leon Spinks (LWH)

Anything could of happened in the amateurs, lets be honest. Even Duane Bobick defeated Stevenson and Larry Holmes in the amateurs, and we know he was a bust in the pros.

ThatOne wrote:Olympic Joe Frazier
Olympic George Foreman
Olympic Lennox Lewis
Olympic Tyrell Biggs
Oympic Wladimir Klitschko
Olympic Pete Rademacher
Olympic Muhammad Ali (LWH)
Olympic Leon Spinks (LWH)

I think Teofilo Stevenson beats them all. He was just too good as an amateur for these guys.

Also he already beat Biggs when he was past his best.

In a three round fight, an upset is more likley to happen. However I am guessing that Stevenson would have been the favorite. I guess you to consider what year as well. The 1976 and 1980 Stevenson was a very experienced fighter. I believe the rest of these guys only fought in one Olympics and then moved on to the pros.

As Olympians, they would probably have a better chance against the 1972 Stevenson.

Other factors to consider: Ali and Spinks (while both were very impressive as amateurs) would have been much smaller at the time. Foreman had a very brief amateur career and was very inexperienced.

Alan Partridge wrote:I think Teofilo Stevenson beats them all.

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I could see Leon in a way beating Teofilo, lesser fighters have done the trick, and Leon was aggressive to a fault.

Nile4000 wrote:I could see Leon in a way beating Teofilo, lesser fighters have done the trick, and Leon was aggressive to a fault.

And personally I think that would be his undoing... He would walk on to Stevenson's shots, I reckon.


Frankly, I'd probably give Ali and Foreman a better chance of beating him that Spinks.