Who is the greatest Amatuer Boxer that ever lived?

[Hitman932]

Stevenson had the intimidation factor. He was like Mike Tyson standing across the ring from his opponents or some ****. Apparently his right hand was the best the amatuers have ever seen.

he was also older than most everyone he fought (at the end), which sure as hell helped him intimidate a lot of 19 year olds.

[Parody]

Teofilo Stevenson is a former Cuban boxer who made history in amateur boxing, but who refused to turn professional. Many people consider him to be one of the greatest Olympic boxers in history, alongside László Papp.

He represented his country in the 1972 Olympic Games of Munich. He won the Gold medal, and then in the 1976 games, held in Montreal, Stevenson repeated the feat. By then, he had become a national hero in Cuba, where he had become a household name.

This was the point where he was the closest to signing a professional contract, American fight promoters offering him the amount of five million dollars to challenge world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali in his first professional bout, which would have made him the second boxer to go straight from the Olympics into a professional debut with the world's Heavyweight crown on the line, after Pete Rademacher.


But he refused, asking "What's five million dollars worth, when I have the love of five million Cubans?"

Stevenson went to the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow and became the second boxer ever, after Papp, to win three Olympic boxing gold medals. At the 2000 Summer Olympics, Félix Savón, also from Cuba, became the third boxer to achieve this.

Stevenson might have won a fourth gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, but the Soviet Union boycotted the games in retaliation for the United States boycott of the 1980 Moscow competition. Cuba followed the Soviet's lead, and Stevenson was deprived of the chance to earn a fourth gold. For consolation, he beat the Olympic champion Tyrell Biggs in February 1984. He retired from boxing shortly after the olympics. During his career as a boxer, he has won 302 fights and lost only 22.

[USA4LIFE]

According to wikipedia ODLH was 223-5 with 163 knockouts.
* 1990 Gold Medalist U.S. Olympic Cup
* 1990 Gold Medalist Goodwill Games
* 1990 Gold U.S. National Championships
* 1991 Gold Medalist USA vs. Olympic Festival
* 1992 Gold Medalist USA vs. Boxing National Championships
* 1992 Gold Medalist USA vs. Bulgaria
* 1992 Gold Medalist World Challenge
* 1992 Gold Olympic Medalist Barcelona
Don't know if this is true or not, why wouldn't it be?

[Violent Demise]

Joel Casamayor had an outstanding amatuer record.

[Shanus]

Mario Kindelan, over 300 amateur fights, rank 1 in his weight division for over 10 years.
Beat Amir Khan at the olympics pretty easily, accepted a bribe by Frank Warren to lose in the rematch.

[Chups]

Teofilo Stevenson and Felix Savon.

3 Olympic Gold medals each.

[deuce_drop]

De La Hoya was 223-5 with 163 knockouts. thats ****ing impressive.......

[joeytrimble]

oscar delahoya is one of the best amatures ever ..chris byrd also had a stellar amature carear

and by the way to the baseball dudes

sosa is like dominican republic or some **** rican

and armando benitez i belive is the dude your talking bout from cuba he was a hardcore reliver still is i think

[joeytrimble]

oscar delahoya is one of the best amatures ever ..chris byrd also had a stellar amature carear

and by the way to the baseball dudes

sosa is like dominican republic or some **** rican

and armando benitez i belive is the dude your talking bout from cuba he was a hardcore reliver still is i think

i didnt mean **** rican i mean "dominican republic or some ****
ment to put another or between **** and rican but it was a typo i just wanted to catch it before i looked like a racist

[Rockin']

Tefellio Stevenson was an awsome amatuer. I actually boxed in the same gym as the first american to beat him, that was Craig Payne.

Mark Breland was an elite amatuer, but that does not translate the same in the pros in alot of cases. A similar yet even worse case was Kelcie Banks. Great, great little amatuer but when he turned pro it was not to be. He got stopped by Ed Hopson in the games I believe, may be wrong there.

Rockin'