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Ed Sanders is an interesting case to me, won olympic gold , stopping his first 3 opponents and then easily beating future world champ ingemar johanson in the final, who was scared to engage this man mountain

6'4 Ed looked so powerful and imposing winning the highest prize in amateur boxing. at only 22 . you would think a succesful high profile pro career was definitely coming

yet then he only managed a measly 6-2-1 pro record and died from a match at 24


anyone know much about him aside from this?

https://boxrec.com/en/amateurboxer/34909

Ex-Navy and had some college. Trained in Boston with Tony DeMarco. Good athlete (football, basketball, track). Had a wife and a kid when he died. First African-American to win Olympic gold at heavy.

I don't think "Ingo" was ' scared" but he wasn't crazy either to try and rush in
and over-welm Ed Sanders.
( also the Olympic commitie eventualy gave Ingemar Johansson the Silver medal)