Soviet Amateurs : What Could Have Been?

[Vladimir5555]

Valery Popenchenko
Boris Kuznetsov
Victor Ageev
Boris Lagutin
Oleg Grigoriev

[knurak]

For what it's worth, every Cuban amateur I listed had won multiple Olympic medals, other than Roberto Balado, who won his first at age 23 and died at age 25. I'm not Cuban; I wasn't trying to be partial to the Cubans -- I was trying to be partial to success.

[Vladimir5555]

* Boris Kuznetsov

* Igor Vysotsky {Kicked Teofilo Stevenson's 'ass'. Not once, but twice.}

* Vyacheslav Lemeshev

* Yuri Nesterov

* Stanislav Stepashkin
* Serik Konakbayev

[Vladimir5555]

* Viktor Savchenko (one of the best punchers in a amateur boxing)
* Shamil Sabirov
* Valery Lvov (knocked down Leonard)
* Valery Rachkov
* Alexander Yagubkin
* Alexander Koshkyn
* Viktor Ageyev
* Andrey Abramov
* Kamil Safin
* Viktor Rybakov
* Viktor Miroshnichenko
* Alexander Tkachenko
* Dan Pozniak
* Andrey Kurnyavka