Who was the first Olympic heavyweight boxing gold medalist to go on to be World heavyweight champ?

kerry8888

cassius clay - 1960 - olympic gold http://www.kiat.net/olympics/history/17rome.html 1964 - world heavyweight champion http://www.geocities.com/sdimitry/boxing0.html joe frazier won the super heavyweight gold in 1964 and the world title in 1968 May 26 03, 2:21 PM

fatguy

The link given says Cassius Clay was light-heavyweight champ. May 26 03, 2:34 PM

kerry8888

since the terminology cahnged a number of times throughout the history of the olympics, i took the 2nd highest weight to be heavyweight and the unlimited weight to be super heavyweight. the first time they used the term heavyweight in the olympics as a weight division was in 1984 - when there were more divisions thyan there had been in previous years (2 more than in 1960). if you want to be picky - then take the frazier answer at the bottom of the posting..... May 26 03, 3:05 PM

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