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Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS
The fight that almost was - wasn't Stevenson offered $5M to turn pro and face Ali?
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Yep, but Stevenson turned it down - something about what is $5 million dollars compared to his love of 5 million Cubans.
I'm old enough to remember Stevenson pretty well, who won 3 Olympic golds, and probably would have won a 4th if the Cubans hadn't boycotted the LA Olympics in 84. He whipped US Gold Medal winner Tyrell Biggs earlier that year, if I recall correctly, so he no doubt would have done well.
No one will every really know how well he would have done as a pro, but it sure would have been interesting to see Stevenson in the mix with Ali, Frazier, Norton, Foreman and Holmes hanging around.