Good boxers with no previous Amateur fights

[realheavyhands]

james toney only had 35

[macman]

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.

[deuce_drop]

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..

[BuddyChacon]

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.

[BuddyChacon]

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.

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

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

[Dye]

Rahman was 7-3.

[Dye]

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.

[Dye]

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

[phallus]

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