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That when the US Olympic team produced Michael Bennett that US HW boxing would be downhill for a long, long time... just now catching itself, but we should have not have been surprised.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F_iNq1eo3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ang2rQXDMhA
Everyone in this picture had something except for Tyrell Biggs. The drugs and weak punching power got him. But if he was a LH he would have been extraordinary.
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Originally Posted by Master
Everyone talks about how great the 1984 USA amateur boxing team was but I think that's mainly due to what they done as professionals.Quote:
Originally Posted by ykdadamajaEveryone in this picture had something except for Tyrell Biggs. The drugs and weak punching power got him. But if he was a LH he would have been extraordinary.
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Originally Posted by Master
Cuba boycotted the 84 Olympics. It's very likely that the likes of Teofilo Stevenson who won Heavyweight gold at the previous three Olympics would have figured even at his advancing age, alongside other Cubans.
The Soviet Union also boycotted the 84 Olympics and they always have some good fighters. Maybe USA 84 would have beaten anyone who showed up no matter what. Who knows ?
But their achievements definitely have asterisk on them. Unlike USA 76 team who won gold when all the major boxing nations were there.
It was crazy some guys on that team did crumble. Williams, Vinson, Aiken and poor ol Bennett. Even in the beginning you knew he wasn't going that far. Every time he was hit fast and hard he looked like a guy who was standing there jamming a metal fork into a light socket :shocking: Brian Viloria has to be the saving grace. Still going very strong.
Don't forget Rocky Juarez and Jermain Taylor. lolol... and, yes, I like the Hawaiian punch. I had him to go all the way for gold that year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spicoli
Great team, photo of gold. Biggs could've done something as big in the pros...had Tyson not been there.Quote:
Originally Posted by ykdadamajaEveryone in this picture had something except for Tyrell Biggs. The drugs and weak punching power got him. But if he was a LH he would have been extraordinary.
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Originally Posted by Master
Tyson couldn't fight as an amateur too well, but another story as a pro.