Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Boxing's Best Olympians - Boxing History

Here are the top Olympic boxing performances in history.

This list doesn't reflect the best pro boxers that also won Olympic medals, but the best all around Olympic boxing performances ever.

This compilation highlights performances within the Olympics only. Every fighter mentioned here won gold in multiple games and only two subsequently turned professional.

1.) Teofilo Stevenson – Cuban heavyweight (1972-1980)

2.) Laszlo Papp – Hungarian junior middleweight and middleweight (1948-1956)

3.) Felix Savon – Cuban heavyweight (1992-2000)

4.) Boris Lagutin – Soviet junior middleweight (1960-1968)

5.) Hector Vinent – Cuban junior welterweight (1992-1996)

6.) Guillermo Rigondeaux – Cuban bantamweight (2000-2004)

7.) Oleg Saitov – Russian welterweight (1996-2004)

8.) Harry Mallin – British middleweight (1920-1924)

9.) Ariel Hernandez – Cuban middleweight (1992-1996)

10.) Jerzy Kulej – Polish junior welterweight (1964-1968)

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