Whatever happened to...the gold medals from the 1988 Seoul Olympics?

Whatever happened to...the gold medals from the 1988 Seoul Olympics?

Spoiler:

Working on the incorrect assumption that if a gold-medallist turned professional he then defended his gold medal in each fight until he was defeated, at which point the medal passed to the victor, where would the medals from 1988 currently be?

Let's have a look...

48kg - Winner - Ivailo Marinov
15/12/1993 L PTS6 Gennady Temirbulatov
05/08/1994 L PTS10 Alexander Pak
13/01/1996 L PTS10 In-Jin Chi
28/07/2001 L UD12 Erik Morales
22/06/2002 L UD12 Marco Antonio Barrera
15/11/2003 L TKO11 Manny Pacquiao
19/03/2005 L UD12 Erik Morales
10/09/2005 L UD12 Zahir Raheem
29/04/2006 L SD12 Acelino Freitas
28/04/2007 L RTD8 Juan Diaz
08/03/2008 L SD12 Nate Campbell
15/05/2010 L UD10 Victor Ortiz
17/09/2011 L KO4 Floyd Mayweather Jr


51kg - Winner - Kim Kwang-Sun
07/06/1992 L TKO12 Humberto Gonzalez
13/03/1993 L KO7 Michael Carbajal
19/02/1994 L SD12 Humberto Gonzalez
15/07/1995 L TKO7 Saman Sorjaturong
17/10/1999 L UD12 Yo-Sam Choi
06/07/2002 L TKO6 Jorge Arce
14/04/2007 L UD12 Cristian Mijares
01/11/2008 L KO9 Vic Darchinyan
11/07/2009 L UD12 Joseph Agbeko
31/01/2009 L UD12 Yonnhy Perez
11/12/2010 L UD12 Joseph Agbeko
13/08/2011 L MD12 Abner Mares


54kg - Winner - Kennedy McKinney
20/08/1994 L UD12 Vuyani Bungu
11/03/2000 L TKO4 Naseem Hamed
07/04/2001 L UD12 Marco Antonio Barrera
15/11/2003 L TKO11 Manny Pacquiao
19/03/2005 L UD12 Erik Morales
10/09/2005 L UD12 Zahir Raheem
29/04/2006 L SD12 Acelino Freitas
28/04/2007 L RTD8 Juan Diaz
08/03/2008 L SD12 Nate Campbell
15/05/2010 L UD10 Victor Ortiz
17/09/2011 L KO4 Floyd Mayweather Jr


57kg - Winner - Giovanni Parisi
10/11/1990 L KO3 Antonio Rivera
14/09/1991 L UD12 Dingaan Thobela
12/02/1993 L UD12 Tony Lopez
26/06/1993 L UD12 Dingaan Thobela
30/01/1993 L UD12 Orzubek Nazarov
16/05/1998 L UD12 Jean-Baptiste Mendy
10/04/1999 L TKO6 Julien Lorcy
07/08/1999 L SD12 Stefano Zoff
13/11/1999 L TKO10 Gilberto Serrano
11/06/2000 L TKO8 Takanori Hatakeyama
01/07/2001 L UD12 Julien Lorcy
08/10/2001 L MD12 Raul Horacio Balbi
05/01/2002 L SD12 Leonard Dorin
24/07/2004 L KO2 Arturo Gatti
25/06/2005 L RTD6 Floyd Mayweather Jr


60kg - Winner - Andreas Zülow
Never turned pro.


63.5kg - Winner - Vyacheslav Yanovski
Never turned pro.


67kg - Winner - Robert Wangila
27/07/1990 L TKO6 Eric Hernandez
22/02/1991 L TKO10 Cassius Clay Horne
26/03/1991 L TKO4 David Gonzalez
18/08/1992 L SD10 Anthony Stephens
23/10/1993 L KO10 Felix Trinidad
29/09/2001 L TKO12 Bernard Hopkins
16/07/2005 L SD12 Jermain Taylor
29/09/2007 L TKO7 Kelly Pavlik
18/10/2008 L UD12 Bernard Hopkins


71kg - Winner - Park Si-Hun
Never turned pro.


75kg - Winner - Henry Maske
23/11/1996 L SD12 Virgil Hill
13/06/1997 L UD12 Dariusz Michalczewski
18/10/2003 L SD12 Julio Cesar Gonzalez
17/01/2004 L UD12 Zsolt Erdei


81kg - Winner - Andrew Maynard
24/06/1990 L KO7 Bobby Czyz
04/08/1994 L RTD4 David Izeqwire
05/11/1994 L TKO8 Adolpho Washington
17/03/1995 L UD12 Orlin Norris
22/07/1995 L KO8 Nate Miller
08/11/1997 L UD12 Fabrice Tiozzo
09/12/2000 L TKO1 Virgil Hill
23/02/2002 L RTD8 Jean-Marc Mormeck
07/01/2006 L KO10 O'Neil Bell
17/03/2007 L UD12 Jean-Marc Mormeck
10/11/2007 L TKO7 David Haye
02/07/2011 L UD12 Wladimir Klitschko


91kg - Winner - Ray Mercer
07/02/1992 L UD12 Larry Holmes
19/06/1992 L UD12 Evander Holyfield
13/11/1992 L UD12 Riddick Bowe
06/11/1993 L MD12 Evander Holyfield
22/04/1994 L MD12 Michael Moorer
05/11/1994 L KO10 George Foreman
22/11/1997 L MD12 Shannon Briggs
28/03/1998 L TKO5 Lennox Lewis
22/04/2001 L KO5 Hasim Rahman
17/11/2001 L KO4 Lennox Lewis


+91kg - Winner - Lennox Lewis
24/09/1994 L TKO2 Oliver McCall
02/09/1995 L UD12 Frank Bruno
16/03/1996 L TKO3 Mike Tyson
09/11/1996 L TKO11 Evander Holyfield
13/11/1999 L UD12 Lennox Lewis
22/04/2001 L KO5 Hasim Rahman
17/11/2001 L KO4 Lennox Lewis

This feels like some reverse lineal stuff again.

Anyway - interesting mate, dread to think how long this took. Floyd would be gratified in his assumption that all roads (but the one that leads to Mares) lead to Floyd Mayweather - judging by the bearer of the medals at 48, 54 and 57kgs

Floyd also has the 63.5kg one from Sydney and the 54kg from 1992, and probably a few more when I get round to it...

What happened was the standard went down in 88....Todd Foster..Kelcie banks etc...

The 84 team for me was full of all the potential 88 lacked....

That Park Si-Hun never did much after winning Gold did he. You would think a man who beat the great Roy Jones Jnr would have gone on to do so much more

...and you spelt his name right too!!...

well done..

Its not exactly hard to spell 'Roy Jones Jnr' now is it

Jr.......

What you gain over me in spelling you lose out on manners

Your a pushy guy Truss

But like John Kreese of the Cobra Kai.......I like that

I much preferred the guy who got Daniel smacking wood in the third one and breaking noses.....

smacking wood........reminds me of my karate lessons at the blue oyster!!

Terry Silver was the guy. I actually watched that one in the cinema when it first came out. Looking back thought the first installment is the only one of real re-watchability

The only film series iv watched where the third installment is the best is the Rocky series where Clubber Lang wants a shot at the title if Balboa has got the guts to meet him in the ring or anywhere else...

agreed but the third one had great comic value....

Especially the speed of Silver's punches and kicks against the old boy!!

Like Rosario after Chavez...he seemed to lose his speed and effectiveness all of a sudden!!

Always remember years ago me and my father having a punchup one night when I came home drunk (its normal in south Wales)

I remember dropping in the classic Silver to Miyaga line of 'Come on old man...lets see how good you really are'

After dropping him with a right hand I was going to revert to the classic Vader to Obi-Wan line of 'Your powers are weak old man' but my mothers shouting and screaming put me off

What did she scream ????

That you were telegraphing your punches and to try Southpaw??

by the way where is Windy??

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:by the way where is Windy??

He's been a bit busy of late - however, he assures me he'll be back around when he's available.