Felix Trinidad comes to mind 51-6 with only 12 ko's; not exactly Oscar's 224-5! As far as a future power puncher who lacked knockout technique in the amateurs, he reminds me of Tommy Hearns:155-8 with 11 ko's. Manny Stewart did say that he taught Tommy how to sit on his punches and how to get the "Snap" out of his full extension. My contention has always been having the proper leverage, center of gravity, technique and timing to where your oppenent is caught at the end of your punch with inches to spare; that way one could use the addional inches to "Punch through" the opponent for maximum power. In other words, a punch zone.
Am boxing is almost an entirely different sport. It's point fighting, it's almost useless to try to throw hard shots, you don't get points for damage, just landing. Some guys just can't make the transistion to the pros. I know nothing of this guy, but looked him up and it seems he was just not cut out for the pro game. he must have had a good am style though. That record is what he claims though, not sure there is any source to verify it.
The guys I named were pre :shit: amateur boxers and in Hearns' case, he fought without a helmet. As for Kelcie Banks, all of those amateur fights just to get dusted off in the first round by Regilio Tuur of freakin Holland in the Olympics no less! Check 'em out now: http://www.ringboyz.com/kelciestory.html
Donald Curry Claims to have an Ammy Record of 400-4...Mark Breland had like ONE Documented Loss in like 150 Ammy Bouts... REED:hammert:
Breland was 110-1, with his only loss coming against Darryl Anthony. He went on to avenge that loss via 3rd round tko as a pro. As a New Yorker, I remember how they tried to hype that fight up as a possible Breland loss because of the amateur match! Kinda like how they tried to hype up the Mike Tyson, Henry Tillman fight and called it a trilogy....yeah, right.
That's pretty ironic; Darryl Anthony was from St. Louis, too! However, he did beat Louis Howard in the box-offs.
