Amateur Highlights
- Compiled an amateur record of (93-7)
- Won the 1974 Light Middleweight (156 lb.) National Golden Gloves Championship.
- Won the 1976 Middleweight (165 lb.) National Golden Gloves Championship in Miami, Florida.
- Won the Middleweight Gold Medal for the United States at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada. Results were:
- Defeated Jean-Marie Emebe (Cameroon) forfeit
- Defeated Ryszard Pasiewicz (Poland) points
- Defeated Alec Năstac (Romania) forfeit
- Defeated Rufat Riskiyev (Soviet Union) TKO 3
- Made it to the finals of the 1975 National AAU, losing to Tommy Brooks
From Mt Scott Community Center in Portland, Oregon.
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Famous quotes containing the word amateur:
“I have been reporting club meetings for four years and I am tired of hearing reviews of the books I was brought up on. I am tired of amateur performances at occasions announced to be for purposes either of enjoyment or improvement. I am tired of suffering under the pretense of acquiring culture. I am tired of hearing the word “culture” used so wantonly. I am tired of essays that let no guilty author escape quotation.”
—Josephine Woodward, U.S. author. As quoted in Everyone Was Brave, ch. 3, by William L. O’Neill (1969)