What is the better road to become a great professional champion?

A) Being an amateur champion and getting an Olympic Gold Medal then turning pro


B) Having a decent amateur career then being a sparring partner for the best in your weight division and learning your craft that way.





Obviously the amateur success would give you more money early in your career as far as selling fights and promotors wanting to represent you...but amateur success doesnt always mean professional success. It is really 2 different sports, with separate scoring emphasis. What do you think?|||A) Winning a gold medal, gets you better promotion. I think you get matched up better against opponents that suit your style until you're cultivated into a champion, it affords you better opportunities to win a championship, no fighting at last minute for a championship, fighting at home or on neutral ground. I think your talent at some point has to take you to the next level, doesn't matter if you win a gold medal or coming through the ranks as a sparring partner, you still have to beat the champ to be a champ.|||"Historical Greatness" is measured in who you fight, and at what stage of their career you fight them, and of course whether you can beat the best of your era. You are correct in your opinion that a successful amateur and Olympic career will translate to more money early in a young fighters career, but "greatness" must come from beating great fighters, and being a champion who doesn't duck any challengers. Individual talent will benefit from both senario's amateur experience and work with best in the division, but greatness is a quality that you either have or you don't and neither career road will effect it. There have been great fighters who did both, or neither and were still great.|||Clearly B. Jorge Luis Gonzalez and Yan Bartelem铆 Varela both won gold medals at the Olympics but did not perform as expected in the pros. You could point to Ali as having success as a pro after winning gold but Ali isn't a very fair measurement for other boxers. I can name more B option boxers that have won world titles without winning gold. Cotto, Campbell, Hatton, Valero, Juanma, Paul Williams, Mosley, Pacquiao, Barrera, and Hopkins off the top of my head. Hell not even your favorite fighter Floyd won gold (although I acknowledge he might have had he not gotten screwed like Roy Jones in scoring). Point is that there are examples of people failing and succeeding in both. But a lot of people who become A list boxers were not men that took up boxing to stay in shape and for fun. People like Joe Frazier had to succeed in boxing and had no other options. James Kirkland was offered an Olympic Team spot but decided to go pro for money like a lot of people who simply do not have the time to have a lengthy amateur career to try for gold. As it stands option B has more numbers.|||I think if you are good it doesn't matter which road you take but taking the amateur road will stall your career for a while as far as making big money goes and when you turn professional it will take a while to adjust to the rigours of professional boxing, so you may be past some of your best youthful years in the sport|||I like the rout that Chavez took. Fight a whole bunch of guys who really can't fight in order to bolster your record. Then you wait until you are old and fight the younger stronger guys. That way, even when you lose everyone will say it is because you are old.





Also beat Meldrick Taylor into a bloody pulp and develop a drinking problem. Then all you have to do is groom your son to follow in your footsteps.|||A medal pretty much gives you a name when you turn pro so the problems and under hand methods. if a great fighter is great and has a great promoter he will dominate. i think what boxers have to do is take risk and fight in other countries. \|||being a sparring partner is not the way to go. I think winning an olympic gold is a tremendous success.|||Great question! Im only choosing B because thats the route that im probly gonna have to take.|||as far as in the ring, B would be much better.|||A|||Man this is the last answer i give for tonight i go to bed after that,so you need to feel honored i am telling you!





I will answer you with a question and i hope you will answer it ,because you seem ducking me!


Ok so i am asking you (and you will understand my answer) from 1995 that the gates opened for the Region of the world which has produce a total 70% champions (plus) of World Amateur Championships and Olympics ,i mean Eastern Europe of course, why in only 14 years they have produce as many Professional champions as your "Dominant" race according to you and Floyd or Hopkins in the last 25 -30 years?


Trust me there have been 69 E.Euro champions from 1995 until today,i counted them these 2 days while i was asking a similar question which got reported anyways!





Mate these E.Euros are naturally strong and powerful,check Olympic wrestling,MMA,Boxing now that they finally became pros,field events which require power as javelin and hammer,strongest man competition Sambo and Kickboxing i mean E.Euros and combat sports go together





THEY NATURAL BRAH, BELIEV DAT!;)