Teófilo Stevenson - Triple Gold in Heavyweight Boxing | Moscow 1980 Olympics
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Highlights as Teófilo Stevenson becomes the first boxer to win a Gold medal in the same division three times after defeating Pyotr Zayev of the USSR in the final during the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games.
Stevenson began his Olympic career at the 1972 Munich Games. At the previous year's Pan American Games, Stevenson had been defeated by Duane Bobick of the United States. This time he met Bobick in the quarterfinals and stopped him in the third round. Stevenson's semifinal victim, Peter Hussing of Germany, said, "I have never been hit so hard in all my 212 bouts. You don't see his right hand. All of a sudden it is there - on your chin." Stevenson's opponent in the final forfeited because of a broken thumb.
In 1976, Stevenson disposed of his first three opponents in a record 7 minutes and 22 seconds. In the final, Mircea Simion of Romania managed to make it to the third round before his handlers threw in the towel.
In the semifinals of the 1980 Olympics, István Levai of Hungary ran around the ring for three rounds to become the first Olympic boxer to go the distance against Stevenson. By defeating Pyotr Zayev of the USSR in the final, Stevenson earned his third gold medal. As late as 1986, he proved that he was still the best amateur boxer by winning the world championship at the age of 36.
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In 1972 he (Teofilo) would have been 20..could have been pro at this time..throw him in the mix with Ali,Foreman,Frazier, Young,Ellis,Norton,Lyle,Shavers,Holmes,Quarry..this was a golden age of heavy Weights and would have been even better with Stephenson in the mix..
camera quality is unbelievable for 1980
GSC Dilla yup, I wished some of the older fights could have quality this good.
Because it was recorded on film and they can always clean it up...that's why there's old movies from the 30s/40s that look crisp clean on their remastered versions.
Yahh
yes, but the Wifi was terrible
This man fighting with Stevenson was Pyor Zayev, Ali know this name very very very good.He fight him in Russia and get very big problems,with this Sovietic and Stalinist machine.Pyor was not Mickey Mouse my friends.
Teófilo Stevenson - Superb technique and speed for heavyweight.
Yup
Yup, absolute rocket speed shot.
Teo had a magnificent physique and he knew how to use it.
He had a crystal jaw. . . .his weakness
RIP to a man who in a different world would have been a hall of famer.
He is a Half of Famer..in his country...CUBA! He was offered 6 million dollars to defect and box in the U.S....but he replied: "I do not need 6 million dollars when I have 8 million cubans back home"
Such a shame we'll never know quite how he'd of fared in the pro heavyweight division.
He knocked him down with body shots . a right jab cut above his left eye making him blind on his left and the body shots to his right side busted his ribs.trying to hold on and push the kid into ropes the kid had him tied up his back on the ropes.then the kid pushes back on the ropes and springs back then forward with a right hand that knocked him out cold.
The olympics are not kids, you are wrong,Teofilo was Olympic Champion with 19, he was a boy and he get the Val Baker trophy in that moment and knockout everybody in this games something never seen until that moment.Stevenson with 19 was better than Ali 19.Stevenson was the most fabulous olympic ever.Ali did not get this like an Olympic boxer.Ali was a normal Olympic nothing sensational.Stevenson knockout 9 of 12 fighter record until today.Knockout in Olympics is almost impossible by the quality.
ONE OF MY IDOLS
RIP Teofilo
from the UK
Пётр Заев! Светлая ПАМЯТЬ Советскому Боксёру.
Big potential he could be like Ali
лучший бой какой я видел, честно
ONE OF MY IDOLS IS TEOFILO STEVENSON
Castro asked Teo to go easy on him!
what a joke ! He couldn't go easy against Angel Milian , or worse Igor Vysotsky who knocked him twice. . . . .
He definitely did. You could see, he doesn’t want to KO him. Brezhnev asked Castro, and Castro asked Teo.
Can't deny he was a great professional boxer within the amateur world , but from his 200 + fights carried on, he faced only 5 or 6 good boxers and beat him, one knocked him twice, a couple of them by score, and will never forget Angel Milian who fight was clearly stolen . . . .
Imagine him in the heavyweight div w ali norton dormant etc
TDH Design it was the 80s it would have been Tyson,Holyfield,etc
@@Ofwudann not really, there was an attempt to organize a fight between Stevenson and Ali, but cuban rejected all offers.
@@Ofwudann Don't forget that Stevenson won the gold medal at Munich 1972. Had he turned pro then he would have been in the realm of Ali, Norton, Frazier, Foreman, etc.
Rest In peace
He could've won 5 gold medals if Cuba hadn't of boycotted the 1984 and 1988 Olympics
that talent deserved big fights in the pro world :(
Juan Carlos Herrera American heavyweights from that era would have ate him for lunch
@@glory70x I doubt it. Ali and Foremen just scraped one gold each on Olympic. He had more than they both combined. You can toss Lenox Lewis there as well.
@@anata5127 they only won 1 each because they turned pro..they could no longer fight as an amateur..Teofilo was a great amateur, great Olympian and great boxer..I do wish we could have seen him as a pro..NONE of us know how that would have worked out,but boy is it fun to debate..respectfully..
@@berniesluder762 Yes, it could have been great to see him as professional. Generally, Cuban boxing school is one of the best in the World. Shame , they stop their great boxes to be pro. By the way, Foreman always considered Olympic gold as the Achievement.
@@berniesluder762 sadly professional boxing is banned in Cuba that's why he cannot turned pro in Boxing
Qué lastima que todos estos videos de homenaje, salgan ahora después de fallecido, recién lo vengo a conocer y por lo visto era un boxeador completo, hizo su vida en torno al boxeo y fue un gigante.
This guy is 6'5"
Петр Заев лучший!!!!
Da zhalel on tvoego Petra, Lenja poprosil Fidelja.
RIP
Lomachenko who?? lol no but he's like a foot taller than his opponent..
Great amature, whatched him in my youth, but Ali was still in a different class sorry.
He wasn’t. If they removed restrictions imposed on amateur boxes, gave him best coaches, gave all sort of enhancing supplements he could have been match for Ali, easily.
@@anata5127agreed
Sida Ali Boxing 1889
Its a discrace to lose on soviet soil
I WISHD IM FINNISH ZAYEV OR STEVENSON
Music???
Great but he never fought against the world best punchers
The professionals are another thing
Entirely
Long arms
I know they always shoot 3x gold like me
Sorry but this guy would have struggled to get through a couple of rounds with Tyson in his prime.
Matt Lugg prime Tyson was over rated. Tyson lost when ever he stepped up to reveal competition. He even lost to journey men- fringe contender. The real goat is Lewis not Tyson
No sense.
Mitch green james bone crusher Smith trevor berbick pinklon Thomas Tony Tucker Michael Spinks Marvis fraizier
Frank Bruno tyrell bigs and the list goes onnnn
Ali, Foreman, and Holmes would knock him out... Too mechanical, not as powerful as Foreman
Foreman said he'd be world champion if he went pro. Not sure how he was mechanical??? Stevenson vs Holmes would have been interesting. Holmes was a dominant champion but he never fought anyone with Stevensons talent during his reign. Stevenson looked exceptional. He moved like Holmes but had faster and harder hitting hands. Only question mark is stamina cause he only fought 3 two minute rounds. Very diffeent to the 15 round world championships of the day. In amateur Stevenson hands down but impossible to predict as a pro cause we never saw him in that world.
@@louissmith5298 Foreman is almost certainly talking about if he turned pro, trained as a pro, gained experience as a pro and improved as a result. To think he would have been world champion straight out of the amateurs is unrealistic.
This pretty much sums up his career. Big hat, not cattle. The best was when he was exhausted and losing a match when he KO'd the ref. Refreshed he went on to steal the match and gold. Cassius Clay would have wiped the mat with this over hyped bum!!!!!
Kto tę muzykę dodał.. chyba jakiś psychol
Very little lateral movement and questionable power.
Lol.. You taking about Teo?
Думаю стивенсон не стал обижать петра потому что брат петра тренеровал в своё время стивенсона. Хотя пётр тоже был хороший боксёр.
ONE OF MY IDOLS