Amateur Highlights
Won the Bantamweight Olympic Trials in 1996, by defeating the following boxers:
- Rosendo Sanchez (points)
- Teaunce Shepherd (points)
- Steve Carter (points)
- Steve Carter (points), this bout was at the Olympic Box-Offs in Augusta, GA
At the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, Raheem lost in the second round. His results were:
- Jong-Gil Oh (North Korea) won on points
- Arnaldo Mesa (Cuba) lost by TKO 1
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Famous quotes containing the word amateur:
“I have been reporting club meetings for four years and I am tired of hearing reviews of the books I was brought up on. I am tired of amateur performances at occasions announced to be for purposes either of enjoyment or improvement. I am tired of suffering under the pretense of acquiring culture. I am tired of hearing the word “culture” used so wantonly. I am tired of essays that let no guilty author escape quotation.”
—Josephine Woodward, U.S. author. As quoted in Everyone Was Brave, ch. 3, by William L. O’Neill (1969)