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How many Olympians can you name?
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It's hardly a guaranteed pathway to professional boxing supremacy.
In fact, ring history is littered with examples of fighters who strutted their stuff on the Olympic stage, then fell flat on their medaled faces when the fights got longer and the gloves got smaller.
Exhibit A: Heavyweight gold medalist Henry Tillman.
The Californian ascended the medals stand at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, then embarked on a forgettable punch-for-pay career in which he lost six fights, was stopped four times and fell in seven rounds in the only sniff of a title bout he got before exiting for good at age 32.