Quote Originally Posted by ykdadamaja View Post
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.

Quote Originally Posted by Master View Post
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.

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.