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It is one of four premier amateur boxing tournaments, the others being the National Golden Gloves Tournament, which crowns its own amateur heavyweight champion, the Police Athletic League Tournament, and the United States Armed Forces Tournament, all sending champions to the US Olympic Trials. The Heavyweight division is contested at a weight ...
Igor Yakovlevich Vysotsky (10 September 1953 – 2 April 2023) [1] was a Soviet amateur boxer who competed from 1973 to 1979, best known for twice defeating the triple Olympic Champion Teófilo Stevenson, being the only boxer out of more than two hundred of Stevenson's opponents to ever knock him out, though he himself never participated in the Olympics.
In June 2011, Shimmell returned to the top, winning his 2nd USA Boxing National Championships gold medal in three years (2009 & 2011). [ citation needed ] Shimmell won each bout along the way and once again become the #1 amateur heavyweight in the United States by scores of 14–8 (finals), 19–7 (semi-finals), 18–12 (quarter-finals) and 12 ...
The Cuban boxing team won three gold medals, their first in Olympic boxing history, as well as one silver and one bronze. The Munich games established Cuba's dominance over the amateur sport that was to last decades. It also established Stevenson as the world's premier amateur heavyweight boxer.
Tyson Luke Fury (born 12 August 1988) [3] is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2008 to 2024. He held multiple world heavyweight championships, including unified [b] titles from 2015 to 2016, the Ring magazine title twice between 2015 and 2022, and the World Boxing Council (WBC) title from 2020 to 2024.
Cam F. Awesome (born August 6, 1988 in Uniondale, New York), formerly known as Lenroy Thompson, is an American amateur boxer best known for winning the US title in 2008, 2010, 2013 and 2014 and the Golden Gloves in 2009, 2011 and 2013 at super heavyweight. He is featured in the 2017 Netflix boxing documentary, Counter Punch. [1]
Nick Wells (born February 11, 1951) is a retired heavyweight boxer. He was selected a member of the All-American AAU boxing team for 1973, and was named the top heavyweight amateur boxer in the nation in 1973 by the National AAU Boxing Committee .
The United States National Boxing Championships bestow the title of United States Champion on Olympic boxers for winning the annual national Olympic boxing tournament organized by USA Boxing, which is the national governing body for Olympic boxing and is the United States' member organization of the World Boxing (since 2023; had been a member of the Association Internationale de Boxe (AIBA ...