Good boxers with no previous Amateur fights

[BmoreBrawler]

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

[K-DOGG]

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.

[grayfist]

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...

[ben41193]

Marciano had 12 amature fighs cloe thow guys lol

[-Hyperion-]

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