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[Dirt E Gomez]

Both amateur and olympic scoring are not the same as the pros, thus are 100% irrelevant when talking about legacies. While I think they're good talking points about a young fighters and nice to reflect along and get experience from.... in terms of what they're good for, nothing.

Also, the very fact that they're fighting in the amateurs is why they're called the amateurs. Pre-season Football doesn't count towards a team's regular season record, or else it wouldn't be pre-season.

[Thread Stealer]

I don't take amateur boxing into consideration when assessing fighters all-time.

I'd rank them separately.

Mark Breland was a great, great amateur, maybe one of the greatest American amateurs ever (my knowledge of the amateurs is rather general and not too deep), but was never reached greatness as a pro.

Guys like Salvador Sanchez and Julio Cesar Chavez were great, great pros. Amateurs, different story.

[Dirt E Gomez]

Guys like Salvador Sanchez and Julio Cesar Chavez were great, great pros. Amateurs, different story.

Along those lines, some fighters don't even compete in the Olympics and amateurs.

[Yogi]

Whitaker also considers winning the gold the best moment of his career.

He should be very proud of that accomplishment because he's one of the few from that "record setting" American team that actually deserved to take home the gold during that wonderful exhibition of amatuer boxing corruption at it's finest.