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Heralded amateurs getting stopped in first fight?
Posted: 30 Jul 2022, 05:40
by wrighty
I can't imagine this has ever happened in the pro game, but has a star amateur such as an Olympic medalist, aba champ or the likes ever been banged out in their first ever match in the paid ranks? The only one I can think of is Pete Radamacher who challenged Patterson for the title in his first match in the pros.
Re: Heralded amateurs getting stopped in first fight?
Posted: 30 Jul 2022, 07:48
by Riddick Bowie
Michael Bentt
Re: Heralded amateurs getting stopped in first fight?
Posted: 31 Jul 2022, 13:06
by HomicideHenry
One great amateur boxer that comes to mind who's professional career went nowhere was Clay Hodges. He had defeated George Foreman in the amateurs. He was 3-1-0 as a pro. Later on he would become an actor starring as Jess Willard in the movie DEMPSEY with Treat Williams. But that's an entirely different matter.
Re: Heralded amateurs getting stopped in first fight?
Posted: 01 Aug 2022, 11:07
by bennie
A wee Scot by the name of Joe Kelly boasted a brilliant international career in the unpaid ranks. He turned pro in 1985 with Terry Lawless, one of the biggest managers in boxing, but suffered a devastating defeat in his pro debut when he was smashed in three rounds by fellow Scot Bobby "Sherbert" McDermott. Lawless dropped Kelly like a stone.
Re: Heralded amateurs getting stopped in first fight?
Posted: 01 Aug 2022, 11:34
by Coco
bennie wrote: ↑01 Aug 2022, 11:07
A wee Scot by the name of Joe Kelly boasted a brilliant international career in the unpaid ranks. He turned pro in 1985 with Terry Lawless, one of the biggest managers in boxing, but suffered a devastating defeat in his pro debut when he was smashed in three rounds by fellow Scot Bobby "Sherbert" McDermott. Lawless dropped Kelly like a stone.
Joe Kelly ended up being a good pro.
I heard a story that Andre Agassi's dad went to the Olympics for Iran but on his pro debut did a runner out of the toilet window and never fought again.
Re: Heralded amateurs getting stopped in first fight?
Posted: 01 Aug 2022, 12:55
by Caractacus
The Brown Bomber hmiself-Joe Louis\was stopped in his first amateur bout
( I seem to remember reading anyway).
Re: Heralded amateurs getting stopped in first fight?
Posted: 02 Aug 2022, 01:02
by orbtastic
Pete Rademacher