Does Donald Curry Have Best Amateur Record ??

[DC Amateur Boxing]

Amateur boxers have passbooks books that each fight is recorded in. Fights in national tournaments are better documented, but club fight arent kept track of aside from the passbook. I lost my USA pasbook a couple years ago after about 15 fights and the form that i had to fill out to get a new book asked to list my record. I could easily have put 15-0 and it would have went, course I put my real record. My point is theres eally no way of knowing for sure.

I 100% AGREE. In the states, USA Boxing doesn't record ANY BOUTS. In fact, if you lose your passbook, they just send a replacement and ASK THE BOXER to fill in his current record. So, if I was 0-30 and "lost" my book, I could get a replacement and write in 30-0 and start a new career. Now, for my two cents. . .

Mark Breland was 110-1 and many of his bouts are well documented and extremel impressive. Curry's record didn't include Olympic performances like Mark Breland. Had Breland not turned pro, who knows what his record would be. He just didn't have anything else to prove. It wasn't just that he was winning, but the where, who and how. If you dig deeper and see who he fought, I have to say Mark's Record is not as prolific, but more impressive to me. Breland was a monster. I have some of his amateur bouts online. His 110 wins include 70 RSCs, 18-0 in international competition, 6-0 in the '84 Olympics (included '80 Silver medalist Russian Serik Konakbaev and best Cuban, 1983 World Cup champion Candelario Duvergal). Per my buddy John Scully on maxboxing.com, Breland also scored stoppage victories over top Americans like All-Army champion James Mitchell, 1983 Pan-American Games welterweight champion Louis Howard, North American Champion Ron Esset, David Guttierez, and Mylon Watkins (Howard, Esset and Watkins were all National Golden Gloves Champions and Mitchell was a National ABF – formerly known as the AAU – Champion). He won the prestigious NYC Golden Gloves 5 consecutive times by amassing a 21-0 record with 19 RSCs, 14 in the first round!!

There are a lot of amateur records that are prolific, but don't include real national titles that at first glance seem unbelievable. Curry was definitely a great amateur, but I'm looking at quality versus quantity and I think Breland's record was more impressive to me.

Dick McTaggart (UK) was 634-24 and that included 3 Olympic games (Gold in '56, Bronze in '60). He only lost to eventual Gold medal winners in the two games he didn't win Gold. I'm sure you've heard of him IBC