Good fighters with poor amateur records.

[SalimShady1212]

An example I can think of is Johnny Nelson who was 3-10 as an amateur and he went on to become cruiserweight world champion. As they say amateurs and pros are a whole different game. Do you know any other fighters who haven't had the best if starts into boxing?

[VatoMulatto]

Mormeck had a crappy amateur record. 5-15 or something like that

[mathed]

This is a pretty good question. I'm interested to see some results for this, never really gave it much though t before.

[Mr.Fantastic]

Good thread!

[SalimShady1212]

I managed to find a few more guys:
Marciano: 8-4
Librado Andrade - 1-13
Jeff Chandler 1-1

And surprising there are a few guys with no amateur experience:
chavez sr-no amateur fights
chavez jr- no amateur fights
billy conn-no amateur fights
tye feilds-no amateur fights
Dwight muhammed Qawi-no amateur fights
anthony mundine-no amateur fights

[intoccabile]

Carlos Molina was 6-1 as an amateur. Not bad, but not extensive either.

Pinklon Thomas only had 3 amateur fights.

Canelo Alvarez
Manny Pacquiao
Bernard Hopkins
Dwight Muhammad Qawi

[dan_cov]

Carlos Molina was 6-1 as an amateur. Not bad, but not extensive either.

Pinklon Thomas only had 3 amateur fights.

Canelo Alvarez
Manny Pacquiao
Bernard Hopkins
Dwight Muhammad Qawi

Manny was a very good amateur going 60-4

[jas]

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=634698

(Wins-Losses-Draws) (Olympic Medals) (World Championship Medals)
*Indicates controversial losses in Olympic medal fights.

Felix Savon (358-17) (Gold x3) (Silver)
Teofilo Stevenson (302-22) (Gold x3)
Terry Norris (291-4)
Virgil Hill (288-11)
Laszlo Papp (288-12) (Gold x3)
Mike McCallum (240-10)
Kennedy McKinney (214-13)
Aaron Pryor (204-16)
Tommy Morrison (202-20)
Pernell Whitaker (201-13) (Gold)
John Mugabi (195-5)
Leon Spinks (181-9)
Michael Nunn (168-6)
Sugar Ray Leonard (165-5) (Gold)
Danny Romero (127-5)
Howard Davis Jr (125-5)
Wilfredo Benitez (123-6)
Harry Arroyo (120-15)
Nino Benvenuti (119-1)
Jose Napoles (113-1)
Tim Austin (113-9)
Hilmer Kenty (104-32)
Mark Breland (110-1) (Gold)
Kid Chocolate (100-0)
Muhammad Ali (100-5) (Gold)
Vinny Pazienza (100-12)
Meldrick Taylor (99-4)
Michael Carbajal (94-9)
Michael Spinks (93-7) (Gold)
Tony Zale (87-8 )
Sugar Ray Robinson (85-2)
Carlos Monzon (79-7)
Hector Camacho (75-4)
Maurice Blocker (73-3)
Roger Mayweather (64-4)
Simon Brown (63-2)
Willie Pep (62-3)
Yoko Gushiken (62-3)
Naseem Hamed (62-5)
Ingemar Johansson (61-10)
Alexis Arguello (58-2)
Wilfredo Gomez (58-2-1)
Henry Armstrong (58-4)
Marvin Hagler (55-1)
Buddy McGirt (54-9)
Joe Louis (50-4)
Azumah Nelson (50-2)
Michael Moorer (48-16)
Ray Mancini (43-7)
Ezzard Charles (42-0)
Nigel Benn (41-1)
Floyd Patterson (40-4) (Gold)
Ricardo Lopez (37-1)
Benny Lynch (35-2)
Carlos Zarate (33-0)
Iran Barkley (30-4)
Edwin Rosario (30-2)
Vito Antuofermo (29-1)
Bobby Czyz (24-2)
Chiquita Gonzalez (23-0)
Jesse James Leija (23-5)
Larry Holmes (19-3)
Chris Eubank (19-7)
Julio Cesar Chavez (14-1)
Roberto Duran (13-3)
Rocky Marciano (8-4)
Jameel McCline (1-1)
Randall Cobb (0-2)

More recent fighters

Vasyl Lomachenko (396-1) ( Gold x2) (Gold x2)
Guillermo Rigondeaux (374-12) (Gold x3) (Gold x2)
Gennady Golovkin (345-8 ) (Silver) (Gold)
Ismail Sillakh (302-16) (Silver)
Matt Korobov (300-12) (Gold)
Adrien Broner (300-19)
Volodymyr Sydorenko (290-20)
Chris Byrd (275-19) (Silver)
Kostya Tszyu (259-11) (Bronze, Gold)
Sven Ottke (256-47-5)
Stevie Johnston (260-13)
Kosta Tsyzu (259-11)
Shane Mosley (250-16)
Lucian Bute (235-15)
Odlanier Solís (227-14) (Gold)
Vernon Forrest (225-15)
Oscar De La Hoya (223-5) (Gold)
Andre Dirrell (210-26) (Bronze)
Jeff Lacy (209-12)
Vassiliy Jirov (207-10) (Gold)
Vitali Klitschko (195-15)
Sergey Kovalev (193-22)
Evander Holyfield (160-14) (Bronze*)
Rakhim Chakhkiev (160-20)
Juan Carlos Gomez (158-2)
Dariusz Michalczewski (139-11-2)
Daniel Geale (135-30)
Wladimir Klitschko (134-6) (Gold)
Alexander Povetkin (125-7) (Gold) (Gold)
Joe Calzaghe (121-9)
Roy Jones Jr. (121-13) (Silver*)
Andre Ward (115-5) (Gold)
Zab Judah (110-5)
Ivan Calderon (110-20)
Erik Morales (108-6)
Tomasz Adamek (108-12)
Diego Corrales (105-12)
Rid**** Bowe (104-18 )
Jean Pascal (103-18 )
Amir Khan (101-9) (Silver)
Lennox Lewis (95-9) (Gold)
Kazuto Ioka (95-10)
Takashi Uchiyama (91-22)
Carl Froch (88-8 )
Zou Schming - Partial record (86-13-1)
Floyd Mayweather Jr. (84-6) (Bronze*)
Kubrat Pulev - Partial record (84-25)
David Haye (83-7) (Silver)
Arthur Abraham (81-3-6)
Alfredo Angulo (80-15)
James Degale (79-16) (Gold)
Ricky Hatton (76-4)
Acelino Freitas (74-2)
Nonito Donaire (68-8 )
George Groves (66-10)
Rosendo Alavarez (66-12)
Kassim Ouma (60-3)
Manny Pacquiao (60-4)
Eddie Chambers (60-20)
Marco Antonio Barrera (56-4)
Felix Trinidad (51-6)
Ike Quartey (50-4)
William Joppy (48-4)
Mike Tyson (48-6)
Vivian Harris (45-5)
Juan Manuel Marquez (44-2)
Mikkel Kessler (44-3)
Canelo Alvarez (41-4)
Manuel Medina (40-6)
Sergio Martinez (39-2)
Giovani Segura (38-4)
Jorge Arce (37-3)
Montell Griffin (36-5)
Tomoki Kameda (35-1-1)
James Toney (31-2)
Tyson Fury (31-4)
Antonio Margarito (21-3)
Marco Huck (15-0)
Jean-Marc Mormeck (13-2)
Nikolai Valuev (12-3)
Michael Grant (11-1)
Hasim Rahman (7-2)
Librado Andrade (3-13)

[Sam Donald]

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=634698

A lot of them are total BS tbh

for example, roger mayweather told me had only 15 am fights

dont know where 60-4 came from

[jas]

A lot of them are total BS tbh

for example, roger mayweather told me had only 15 am fights

dont know where 60-4 came from

Wikipedia. Not saying it's as credible as the man himself. Just saying it wasn't from a totally unknown source.

Which others are bs since you say "a lot of them are bs"