Sounds like a guy just promoting an up & comer on amatuer success. Happens all the time and in many cases it remains their glowing moment. I remember watching the Cuban mullet aka Jorge Luis Gonzalez coming up and countless guys on the mic railing on about how he beat Lennox Lewis and Riddick Bowe in the same year as amateurs. Al 'Chico' Evans knocked out Mike Tyson in the amateurs and probably still tells the story. It's just name association.