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Quote Originally Posted by El Kabong View Post

George Foreman had been boxing for only 1 year when he won Gold in 1968 and he hammered the absolute dog crap out of Ionas Chepulis. So it wouldn't be all sunshine and lollipops for the Commie's in the Pro ranks.
Foreman won gold over a 31 year old! That's ancient in amateur terms! And frazier only narrowly defeated a 30 yr old amateur too...

Also the soviets only started competing in the games in the mid 50's.
My point exactly because Foreman & Frazier were just kids at the time and they were fighting full grown men.