Who was the better amateur, Rigo or Loma?

[darius45]

Loma's record is 396-1

Rigo's record is 463-12

For those more familiar with the amateur system, which guy would you say is the superior amateur. Rigo has more losses but more fights. Also, am I wrong to assume Rigo faced stiffer opposition coming up in Cuba?

[Eff Pandas]

1 loss is insane. And its avenged...a couple times iirc. Idk how Olympic medals being even that doesn't end up being the tiebreaker. I used to be super impressed with Mark Breland's amateur record (something like 110-1, 73KO's iirc), but Loma gots like damn near 4x the wins along with the lone loss. And with how amateur boxing works thats a whole lot of tournaments won.

[Gentblue]

It's hard to say while Loma only has 1 loss vs 12. Rigo has more world titles (7-4)and only lost 1 Tourney apiece ( 2003 World championships for Rigo and 07 for Loma). Rigo might have been a 3 time Olympic champ if he wasn't imprisoned.

[otrocubiche]

by the numbers, loma's looks better, by the oposition, rigo's looks better

[Robbie Barrett]

There's no proof of these amateur records. There's no official database. All we got is the fighters word and events that are actually reported on. It was proven Golovkin's claimed amateur record was bull****. I'd expect the same is for most fighters.

[boliodogs]

I would vote for Loma having the better record. Rigo's record is great too but the number of fights each had,Loma 397 fights vs Rigo 475 fights is fairly close. 12 losses for Rigo as apposed to only 1 loss for Loma isn't close at all.