Who did boxer Vernon Forrest lose the gold medal bout to in the 1992 Olympics?
For the first eight years of his professional boxing career, Vernon Forrest sought in vain for a title fight for the welterweight crown. After compiling an undefeated record, some boxing experts claimed that Forrest was simply too good a fighter and that the various welterweight champions were hesitant to fight him and lose their titles. Others blamed the roadblock on Forrest’s public image, which lacked the spark and showmanship of some of the other fighters. In 2000, when Forrest finally gained a chance to win the International Boxing Federation (IBF) welterweight title, he was again plagued by bad luck when the fight was stopped after a head-butting incident in the third round. The following year Forrest returned for the IBF title fight and this time emerged victorious in a twelve-round decision. In January of 2002 Forrest took the next step in his career with another welterweight title fight for the World Boxing Congress (WBC) crown against titleholder “Sugar” Shane Mosley. After t
In the end Forrest took the fight by a six to four decision and made the U.S. Olympic Boxing Team. Considered a gold-medal favorite, Forrest was stricken with food poisoning shortly before his first-round bout at the Barcelona Games and was ousted from the competition without a medal. As he later remembered in a 2000 Los Angeles Daily News profile, “I walked around Barcelona like a zombie.” After returning from the games, Forrest moved to Atlanta and prepared for his debut in the professional ranks. Forrest finished his amateur career with a record of 225 wins against just 16 losses. http://www.answers.com/topic/vernon-forrest Sources: http://www.answers.
Though the favorite to win the gold medal during the 1992 Olympics, boxer Vernon Forrest lost to Peter Richardson after getting food poisoning. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
