While most of the Olympic sports revolves around the excellent athletes to reach the peak, fewer sports are more effective in the direction of creating superstars tomorrow than Boxing.
This does not mean that the Olympic Gold Medal is not a peak achievement in his career, but becoming a member of the national team for the Olympics is often the perfect opening of a successful career in Boxing village.
1. Muhammad Ali
Still known as Cassius Clay, 'The Greatest' for the first time showed his dazzling skill to the world when he was 18 years old at the Rome Olympics in 1960, creating an elegant path to HCV in the weight of Light Heavyweight. Poland's 1956 bronze medal and European champion Zbigniew Pietrzykowski made Muhammad Ali face many difficulties with his Southpaw position in the final but Ali still won.
2. Sugar Ray Leonard
Future rivals Joe Frazier and George Foreman followed the Ali steps with the heavy gold medal in 1964 and 1968, but at the time when the heavy era was ending, the American boxing village had another golden generation to excitement with their 1976 performance.
The most prominent Olympics of the Olympics is Sugar Ray Leonard, who was brilliant on the way to the Gold Medal. He overwhelmed all opponents to win gold medals in 1976.
3. Lennox Lewis
Before becoming a professional punch, Lewis achieved glory at the Olympics. Representative of Canada, he defeated Riddick Bowe in the super heavy final in Seoul 88. Before this achievement Lewis has also achieved many gold medals and gold medals in national and continental tournaments.
4. Oscar de la Hoya
At the age of 19, the Mexican -American puncher won gold medals at the Barcelona 92 Olympics. With this success, Oscar de La Hoya was known as “Golden Boy” and this name became his brand. After this achievement, Oscar achieved 11 championship belts in 6 different weight classes.
5. Floyd Mayweather
Although not owning gold medals as the above names, Floyd Mayweather is the most successful career puncher. At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Mayweather had a controversial defeat against Bulgari's Serafim Today, causing him to receive bronze medal.
After moving to professional, Mayweather has achieved a perfect 50-0 achievement table, 15 championship belts from Super Featherweight to Light Middleweight and is known as the richest boxer in the world.