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Not surprisingly, it looks like the best years when many of today's boxing stars started their professional careers are Olympic years or the years right after an Olympic year.

2013:
Vasily Lomachenko
Anthony Joshua
Oleksandr Usyk
Gervonta Davis
Kosei Tanaka
David Benavidez
Artur Beterbiev
Jaime Munguia
Isaac Dogboe
Takuma Inoue
Ryota Murata
Ryan Burnett
Luke Campbell
Andrew Tabiti

2012:
Luis Nery
Errol Spence Jr
Naoya Inoue
Callum Smith
Jarrett Hurd
Oscar Valdez
Jose Carlos Ramirez
Reggie Prograis
Alberto Machado
Emmanuel Rodriguez
Thammanoon Niyomtrong (Knockout CP Freshmart)
Khalid Yafai
Marcus Browne
Jo Jo Diaz
Jesse Hart
Robert Easter

2008:
Terence Crawford
Deontay Wilder
Shawn Porter
Juan Francisco Estrada
Jermall Charlo
Tyson Fury
Demetrius Andrade
Erislandy Lara
Marlon Tapales
Lee Selby
George Groves
Krzystof Glowacki


2009:
Wisaksil Wangek (Srisaket Sor Rungvisai)
Eleider Alvarez
Gary Russell
Carl Frampton
Kazuto Ioka
Sergei Kovalev
Guillermo Rigondeaux
Billy Joe Saunders
Jerwin Ancajas
Gilberto Ramirez
Mairis Briedis
Josh Warrington
Jarrell Miller
Badou Jack
Yunier Dorticos
James DeGale

2006:
Gennady Golovkin
Mikey Garcia
Leo Santa Cruz
Zolani Tete
Adonis Stevenson
Shingo Wake
Ryoichi Taguchi

2005:
Canelo Alvarez
Abner Mares
Chocolatito Gonzalez
Alexander Povetkin

2010:
Miguel Berchelt
Rey Vargas
Francisco Vargas
Jesse Magdaleno
Rocky Fielding
Yordenis Ugas
Julian Williams
Daniel Roman

2007:
Chayaphon Moonsri (Wanheng Menayothin) 51-0
Daniel Jacobs
David Lemieux
Danny Garcia
Tony Bellew
Jermell Charlo
Hekkie Budler
Yuri Gamboa

2011:
Chris Eubanks Jr
Jose Pedraza
Murat Gassiev
Kiryl Relikh
Artem Dalakian
Jose Uzcategui
Maurice Hooker
Alex Saucedo
Richard Commey
Dillian Whyte

2014:
Ken Shiro
Dmitry Bivol
Oleksandr Gvozdyk
Sergei Derevyanchenko
Ivan Baranchyk
Eduardo Hernandez (26-0)
Yamaguchi Falcao
Esquiva Falcao

The "Class of 2014" is off to a great start and no doubt they will add many more stars as today's prospects develop into legit world-class fighters. 2016 and 2017 promise to be good classes too as more Olympians from the Rio Games turn pro and mature in the paid ranks.

If the Olympics are every four years, and your saying they go pro on an Olympic year or the year after, my simple farmers brain tells me that's 2 out of 4 years
So if the 2014 Olympics has people turning pro in 2014, and 2015, then again in 2018 (next Olympics) and 2019, then it's something?

KiwiRider wrote: ↑12 Oct 2018, 20:44 If the Olympics are every four years, and your saying they go pro on an Olympic year or the year after, my simple farmers brain tells me that's 2 out of 4 years
So if the 2014 Olympics has people turning pro in 2014, and 2015, then again in 2018 (next Olympics) and 2019, then it's something?

Although most Olympians who are going to turn pro do it later that year or the next year, SOME Olympians wait 2-3 years before they turn pro. So even though most 2016 Olympians turned pro in late 2016 or sometime in 2017, there are some who dont do it until 2018 or even later. This thread shows about nine or ten 2016 Olympians who turned pro in 2018 and the year isnt quite over yet.

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