Better exp - three hun. Amt. Fights or thirty five pro bouts?

[Flabulous]

What is better to prepare you for the best ? Having a career like Alvarez or jcc jr. With next to no ammy, but taking long time, 4-5 years , and thirty plus pro fights paced properly? I think chavez jr and Alvarez were brought along brilliantly... from no hopers, to tomato cans, to journeyman, to fringe workdr level, ... how much Alvarez has improved in thirty five fights with next to no ammy exp. Iz amazing. . Chavez jr was more of brilliant promoting on the old man arums part... but even he, when at his best against andy Lee, was a force......

[-Kev-]

They had no choice really.

If you have a choice, go amateur.

[about.thousands]

What is better to prepare you for the best ? Having a career like Alvarez or jcc jr. With next to no ammy, but taking long time, 4-5 years , and thirty plus pro fights paced properly? I think chavez jr and Alvarez were brought along brilliantly... from no hopers, to tomato cans, to journeyman, to fringe workdr level, ... how much Alvarez has improved in thirty five fights with next to no ammy exp. Iz amazing. . Chavez jr was more of brilliant promoting on the old man arums part... but even he, when at his best against andy Lee, was a force......

Alvarez and JCC jr were teens fighting grown men. These others guys turning pro in their mid-20's after fighting ammy's for so long are grown men fighting late teens/early 20's

[The D3vil]

I'd rather go through amateurs.

If you lose there, who cares, you're an amateur, but once the losses count, even those early in your career can effect you forever

[pvj]

Harder to break bad habits as a pro.

[Flabulous]

Good points by everyone.

Obviously, you lot are right - if given the choice - the proper way would be to come up through the amateurs... I'd say at least 100 bouts before going pro.

Some of the top amateurs from countries not known for professional boxing, like Italy, Brazil, China... are in their mid/upper 20's, or even early to mid 30's in some cases.

I think the dude who won the Silver Medal @ heavyweight in '12 London Olympics was like a 33 year old Italian cat. A lot think he actually deserved the nod against Joshua, who got quite a few favorable draws. Not saying it was a robbery, because it definitely wasn't, but a few close decisions went Joshua's way.

I wonder why some of those dudes in their 30's who already won some sort of medal in the Olympics, and amateur world championships, never turn pro?

Guess the lack of promotional offers from their country, due to overall lack of professional boxing in their country... Seems like the way it's been going, doe, is foreign promoters from UK, USA, Germany, Russia, or even Japan take chances, and sign foreign boxers to promote them in their native countries (of the promotional outlet).

Maybe some of these countries offer fairly lucrative packages to stay amateur and rep their country, doe? So glory, plus the guaranteed money keeps them put.

I remember Andy Lee was offered some sort of compensation package from Ireland to stay amateur - including a car... Emanuel Steward put up 250k of his own money to lure Lee to USA and turn pro, doe.