which olympic class was the best

[azul loc]

1996, 2000, or 2004. I say 2000 mainly because the lower weight classes. 2004 had a lot of HBO hyped guys that never lived up to it like berto, Lopez, angulo etc

[jas]

96 was floyd and judah i think

[Russian Crushin]

List the name

[artfuL_]

This thread has potential if you can break down which boxers competed in their respective classes.

Last Olympics (2012) should prove to be real promising.

Loma
Usyk
Verdejo
Mekhontsev
Valdez
Hooper etc.

[boricuajr23]

are we speaking USA team or just overall olympics?

[jas]

Can this thread be brought to life? That's the question...

[Citizen Koba]

are we speaking USA team or just overall olympics?

That was gonna be my exact question.

[Citizen Koba]

List the name

This would also help - I don't think many people are gonna bother going to check who was at which olympics...

[Citizen Koba]

OK - just from Wiki and going off the top 4 (ie the medalists) these are some of the names that have subsequently turned pro. There's plenty of others who didn't medal cos they were beaten by some of the guys listed (or top ams who never went pro), Despaigne, Pascal and N'Jikam for instance were all MWs in 2004. Berto, Angulo etc also fall into this category.

Anyways.

1996

Floyd
Tarver
Jirov
Wlad

2000

Rigo
Jermaine Taylor
Erdei
Ibragimov
(Harrison)

2004

Gamboa
Rigo
Khan
Golovkin
Dirrell
Ward
Solis
Povetkin

I'm sure there's many names I've missed, but it's a reasonable starting list for discussion.

[Rockin']

'84 American Boxing Team, best squad ever................ Rockin'