olympic gold medalist who failed as a pro

[Sam Donald]

audley harrison is the usual name that is brought up but can anybody name any others

* fail as in failing to capture a world title

[dan_cov]

Laszlo Papp retired undefeated as a pro but I believe he never won a world title
Howard Davis Jr never won a world title I don't believe
Audley Harrison obviously.
James DeGale though his careers still going, I'm not sure hes capable of taking a world title.

[kiDynamite92]

tyrell biggs and henry tillman come to mind..............

[greeh]

Howard Davis Jr is one of them. I know someone more but can't remember his name right now.

/greeh

[greeh]

Odlanier Solis. Such a waste of talent (alltough he hasn't retired yet).

/greeh

[NChristo]

Pete Radermacher

[Dynamite76]

Howard Davis Jr.
Tyrell Biggs.

[SBleeder]

Sugar Ray Seales
Jerry Page
Chris Finnegan - I believe got a title shot but was defeated

[Bodyshot3]

Would be very grateful if one of our resident historians could properly explain to me the bewildering mystery of Pete Rademacher.

White, good-looking, presumably very marketable American boy wins the Olympic gold medal at heavyweight and his first fight - literally his pro debut -is for the professional world heavyweight title against Floyd Patterson.

Who exactly managed Pete...the Marquis De Sade, Stalin, Ivan the Terrible or was it just someone utterly innept, village-idiot bloke called Cleetus?

Second fight for Pete - a time surely to rebuild and learn the pro business after a huge, ill-fated disaster - well, it had to be the ever-dangerous, often-avoided and vastly more experienced Zora Folley.

Rademacher failed as a pro but I am very interested to know why he was viewed as so expendable. It would be good to have some sage answers.

[Scott9945]

Would be very grateful if one of our resident historians could properly explain to me the bewildering mystery of Pete Rademacher.

White, good-looking, presumably very marketable American boy wins the Olympic gold medal at heavyweight and his first fight - literally his pro debut -is for the professional world heavyweight title against Floyd Patterson.

Who exactly managed Pete...the Marquis De Sade, Stalin, Ivan the Terrible or was it just someone utterly innept, village-idiot bloke called Cleetus?

Second fight for Pete - a time surely to rebuild and learn the pro business after a huge, ill-fated disaster - well, it had to be the ever-dangerous, often-avoided and vastly more experienced Zora Folley.

Rademacher failed as a pro but I am very interested to know why he was viewed as so expendable. It would be good to have some sage answers.

I can kind of justify the Patterson fight. Huge payday for his first fight with very low expectations.

But fighting Folley next was idiotic. No upside there.