Good boxers with no previous Amateur fights

Cintron fought in the 2000 EASTERN U.S. Olympic Trials (losing to Rudy Cisneros) holy crap, didnt know that, Cintron must really have improved since then

Marciano had 12 amature fighs cloe thow guys lol

I think the following never followed the institutionalized amateur path. They went into boxing to make a living...paid for their efforts from the very start of their careers. They were pros from the gitgo: Flash Elorde Eder Jeoffrey Sandy Saddler Fighting Harada Bernabe Villacampo Erbito Salavarria Hilario Zapata Alfonso Zamora Ruben Olivares I could be misinformed about some of them though...

Don't know if anyone's mentioned him; but Billy Conn. Billy Conn had no amateur fights and was one of the best middleweights/ligh-heavyweights who ever lived.

Hasim "Rock" Rahman started at age 20 with no amateur experience.

Braxton Who later became Dwight Muhammad Qawi had none as was a former street brawler. Also Billy Conn had no amatuer fights. o'neil bell has no amatuer fights, also

he was actaully 20-1 in toughman not 49-1

Times were never easy in the Morrison household, and after his parents were divorced, a heavy financial burden was created. Morrison felt obligated to shoulder the load, and he quit school and went looking for work. He found it at an oil rig and then subsequently worked for a construction company. Also during this time, at age 13, Tommy began forging ID papers to enter local Toughman competitions, often competing against grown men twice his size and over twice his age. He enjoyed a very successful run in these contests, winning in fifty matches with only one defeat. "I lost to a guy named Mark Breedlove, out of Muskogee, Oklahoma. I was about 14 and he was about 27 or 28. He was just a little bigger and stronger and kind of bulled me around, if you can imagine that," Morrison says. "You do what you gotta do. During that whole time, I would travel around the four state area, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas and fight in these Toughman contests, and that’s what kept money in my pocket." During this strenuous period, Tommy’s mother Flossie received her nursing degree and Tommy enrolled once again in school.

Rahman was 7-3.

NO, Bones had WELL OVER 100 amateur fights.. I know for sure because he and I won the Ohio State Fair together in 1987 when he was just 13... in the lobby one day he told me had 112 fights at the time... I saw him fight at that age too and believe me, he was VERY experienced and skilled even back then as a young kid. Actually one of the best "fights" I ever watched in the amateurs was Bones and Lamar Murphy fighting each other in a parking lot (with gloves and headgear on) in Jacksonville, Florida in 1987

bones adams, i'm pretty sure he didn't have any amateur fights, i think he started as a pro at the age of 15, i could be wrong but i remember on some show he was fighting in that they said that he lied about his age so he could fight as a pro for money.......... there are a few others that i can't think of right now.. I had heard because he was from KY he had little to no amatuer experience and he did turn pro that young.

Cintron fought in the 2000 EASTERN U.S. Olympic Trials (losing to Rudy Cisneros), Tyson won several national amateur tournaments (including National JO's, National Golden Gloves and the U.S. Under 19's), and HASIM Rahman had amateur fights. Marciano had much more than just 3 amateur fights and definitely didn't lose all of them, either. Morrison fought in national tournaments, WON the 88 Western Trials and then lost to Mercer in the US Olympic trials the same year (NOT in the finals of the NGG). Hopkins fought amateur, mostly as a junior olympian (under 16). I still think Rahman had only like 11 or so amateur fights. Thanks for correcting me on Morrison. I always thought it was strange he claimed little amatuer experience when he had tons actually. Marciano had less than 20 Amatuer fights though.

bones adams, i'm pretty sure he didn't have any amateur fights, i think he started as a pro at the age of 15, i could be wrong but i remember on some show he was fighting in that they said that he lied about his age so he could fight as a pro for money.......... there are a few others that i can't think of right now..

2 of the best were Wilfred Benitez & Alexis Arguello. Both went on to become 2 of the best boxers of all time, & win multiple championships.

james toney only had 35

Cintron fought in the 2000 EASTERN U.S. Olympic Trials (losing to Rudy Cisneros), Tyson won several national amateur tournaments (including National JO's, National Golden Gloves and the U.S. Under 19's), and HASIM Rahman had amateur fights. Marciano had much more than just 3 amateur fights and definitely didn't lose all of them, either. Morrison fought in national tournaments, WON the 88 Western Trials and then lost to Mercer in the US Olympic trials the same year (NOT in the finals of the NGG). Hopkins fought amateur, mostly as a junior olympian (under 16).

Tommy Morrison had limited amature experiance............ He learned his trade in toughmen contests Morrison always used to say this,but it is not true. He had over 200 Amatuer fights and fought in the Finals of the Nationals Golden Gloves against Ray Mercer. He used this lie as a gimmick.

Dwight Braxton had no amateur experience before he came to the paid ranks. Braxton Who later became Dwight Muhammad Qawi had none as was a former street brawler. Also Billy Conn had no amatuer fights.

Dwight Braxton had no amateur experience before he came to the paid ranks.

b-hop boxed when he was younger as an amatuer before he got locked up and as far as boxers coming straight out of prison, there are boxing gyms and prisoners do learn how to box through coaches, they also have tournaments and the like in prison systems so they're not just a bunch of tuff macho dudes who got locked up and learned how to fight like that. fighting and boxing are two different things