The Eastern Trials were a qualifier for the US Championships, not the Olympic Trials. You had to finish in the top 8 at the US Championships to qualify for the Olympic Trials, and he was beaten by Shemuel Pagan in a preliminary fight.
The winners of the Gold Gloves, PAL Champs, and Military Championships all got byes into the Olympic Trials, but Davis' personal issues kept from getting one of those spots, and then he was unable to make it the hard way.
WHY DID MARK DAVIS NOT FIGHT IN OLYMPIC TRIALS?
Samr thing happened to Karl Dargen in the US Championships. He lost to Javier Molina in the prelims and did not make it to the top eight to get into the trials. Dargen had already quailfied for the Pan Am games and got the gold a month after the US Championships. It was a shame he did not get into the trials so the Pan Ams became his Olympics. At least the guy he lost to won the US Championships and also the Olympic trials.
verballistic wrote: thanks!!i know the eastern & western trials used to be automatic bertsh into the OT, did that end for 2000 OG or 2004?
That ended in '04. This past year the US Championships were restructured so that it was the last "national" championship. All of the others as well as the eastern, western and midwestern which was started this year, fed into the US Championships with the top eight finishers quailifying for the Olympic trials. Every boxer had many chances to make it to the US Championships. If you lost in the easterns, you could go to the midwesterns or westerns. Every tournament was open to all boxers no mater wher you lived. Only the Pal, GG's and Armed forces tournament winners got an automatic bid into the OT buy getting seeded in the quarters of the US Championships.
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WHY DID MARK DAVIS NOT FIGHT IN OLYMPIC TRIALS?
Dang... That was a little personal... :(