Quote Originally Posted by nuclear bull
he won the gold medal but i never saw him as being the best fighter there, he never stood out as a true champ.

de la hoya won a world title after 10 fights after the olympics, holyfield was world champ after 12 once he came back from the olympics, fernado vargas made world champ on his 15th fight again after the gold medal and Jeff Fenech came home from the olympics and on his 7th pro fight became world champ, these guys all looked world class inthe build up to there title fights

audley has been crap against everyone he's fought, his first 19 fights were against no bodies even there neighbours never knew who those guys were, he fought Julius Francis who was once british champ, against audley he was 39, 2 stone over weight had 1 week notice for the fight and had lost his last 6 and audley could only win on points. he only fought danny williams because he thought williams was finished had he known danny still had some juice he never would have got in the ring with him
I agree with some of your opinions, but he was a good ameateur and beat some good guys including Sam Peter, he was the favourite for the Gold medal in his weight class from the off, so maybe in your opinion he wasn't the best in Sydney but the general opinion was he was the man to beat at the 2000 Olympics.