I don't want us to judge these guys based on the guys who went professional and had limited success. What if Stevenson went pro, or Savon and got beat up badly like Jorge Luis Gonzalez who beat Stevenson in the amateurs and has a better amateur record than all of them up there.
Balado never lost in international competition EVER.
And Solis beat Savon 2 out of 3 times, and had won the berth to the 2000 Olympics over Savon but they gave it to Savon anyway because they wanted Savon to tie the record for most Gold Medals at the Olympics set already by Lazlo Papp and, of course, Teofilo Stevenson.
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