An Olympic bronze medal doesn’t have to hold you back

1. FLOYD MAYWEATHER
The greatest boxer of his generation, American superstar Mayweather bagged a featherweight bronze medal at his home Games in Atlanta in 1996. World titles in five divisions followed for the unbeaten maestro.

2. EVANDER HOLYFIELD
Another all-time great who won bronze on home soil, Holyfield claimed his light-heavyweight medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. He went on to reign as undisputed king at cruiserweight and heavyweight.

3. ANTONIO TARVER
A teammate of Mayweather at the Atlanta Games, light-heavyweight Tarver replicated Floydโ€™s feat by placing third. He enjoyed three stints as world champ (twice unified) and famously stopped Roy Jones.

4. JERMAIN TAYLOR
Boxing as a light-middleweight, Taylor earned a podium position at Sydney 2000. The American snatched the undisputed middleweight crown from Bernard Hopkins and also beat him in a rematch.

5. MARVIN JOHNSON
A middleweight medallist for America at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Johnson became a three-time title-holder as a light-heavyweight, winning one WBC and two WBA belts.

6. ALAN MINTER
Minter took home light-middleweight bronze from Munich in โ€˜72, before attaining undisputed champion status at middleweight. The Brit was dethroned by Marvin Hagler โ€“ a result which prompted ugly scenes in the arena.

7. LOU SALICA
Following a third-place finish as a flyweight at the 1932 Los Angeles Games, the USAโ€™s Salica proved himself to be a real force at bantamweight, where he twice laid claim to the world championship.

8. DEONTAY WILDER
Aptly nicknamed โ€œThe Bronze Bomberโ€, Wilder medalled at Beijing 2008 as a heavyweight. He ended Americaโ€™s lengthy absence of a world heavyweight titlist, holding the WBC strap from 2015 to 2020.

9. ZSOLT ERDEI
Prior to securing WBO light-heavyweight and WBC cruiserweight honours, Hungaryโ€™s Erdei collected a middleweight bronze at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. He was undefeated in world title contests.

10. DANIEL SANTOS
A welterweight bronze medal-winner for Puerto Rico at Atlanta 1996, Santos held WBO welter and super-welter belts, albeit when these were not universally recognised. He also picked up a WBA 154lb title.

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