Comments Thread For: Scully on Dawson: “He sort of turned a corner in his life”

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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - John Scully’s name has been out there for years.

He was an in-ring professional for 13 years and challenged for two world titles, and his dubbed-in voice is recognizable as a color analyst alongside Joe Tessitore on the ESPN Classic Boxing Series.

But he’s more recently made news as the trainer – and now ex-trainer – of light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson, whose drop in weight to meet super middleweight kingpin Andre Ward last September ended disastrously in the form of a 10th-round TKO loss.

The two parted company afterward and Dawson announced in January that he’d return to the camp of another 175-pound claimant, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, with whom he’d worked previously along with others including Emanuel Steward, Dan Birmingham and Floyd Mayweather Sr.

Scully said the two haven’t spoken since the night of the Ward fight.

“It's not that I hold any grudge or anything like that, and it's not that I didn't try to reach him, either,” he said. “As it stands, I just choose to do as he does and consider it like our relationship never existed.”

The trainer was not at all shy about criticizing his ex-client’s decision to take the fight at 168, rather than demanding that Ward move up to challenge him for his title at 175.

“Taking that fight at 168 and choosing to make the weight in the manner that he was made to do so was a huge mistake. There is no disputing that and he knows that,” Scully said. “Everyone saw that fight and people who know about such things certainly know that it was. If making the weight was no big deal, he'd still be fighting at that weight. But it doesn't take a genius to know that he will never ever even consider going down to the much more lucrative 168 again. That's all the proof I need.” [Click Here To Read More]

BattlingNelson

Great interview and nice hearing about Scully's opinions on his own career and not just the highly publizied break with Chad Dawson.

Good read.

ABOSWORTH

Good article. I liked the questions Lyle asked.

DLT

Great stuff from Scully as always. That dude genuinely has boxing running through his veins. He loves being around it. He's like the white Roger Mayweather.......lol

.:: JSFD26 ::.

Disappointed how Dawson handled this whole thing.

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tredh

Scully interviews are always damn good!!!

Queen_Leia

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Originally Posted by DLT

He loves being around it. He's like the white Roger Mayweather.......lol

No he is NOT.

I just checked the WBC, WBA, IBF and the WBO champions and their top ten fighters in each organization from heavyweight down to strawweight....none of them are trained by Scully.

retnuocllup

too bad Dawson and Scully couldn't end their relationship amicably. Dawson has to know that it wasn't Scully's fault he lost that fight.... making 168 is what killed him and made him look pathetic

PEBBLES!

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Originally Posted by DLT

Great stuff from Scully as always. That dude genuinely has boxing running through his veins. He loves being around it. He's like the white Roger Mayweather.......lol

"Man, you ain't never seen a white man that can train no fighter. I ain't never seen a white fighter that can train nobody as far as i'm concerned."

-Roger Mayweather

Ray Corso

Roger, sit down and think who was YOUR trainer???? Duh!
Sometimes these exfighter/trainers think they were "born" in boxing!! Everyone is taught by someone or influenced by a few! Roger & Floyd Sr. were good fighters and their both good trainers but without Floyd Jr. they'd be good trainers just like 75% of the trainers out there! The only think special about them is Floyd Jr.!!!!! Ray.

duh!!! your past trainer Jesse, is a white guy!

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DLT [B]Manny_P is Steezy[/B] Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 16,138 Rep Power: 44 Points: 11,085,009,398.76 Bank: 1,516,558,004.11 Total Points: 12,601,567,402.87 Donate	Great stuff from Scully as always. That dude genuinely has boxing running through his veins. He loves being around it. He's like the white Roger Mayweather.......lol

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tredh Undisputed Champion Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: a place where white women were scared when they saw me a black man wearing OJ style leather gloves!! Posts: 5,500 Rep Power: 20 Points: 7,037.29 Bank: 8,048,500,366.76 Total Points: 8,048,507,404.05 Donate	Scully interviews are always damn good!!!

retnuocllup Undisputed Champion Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 3,331 Rep Power: 10 Points: 62,466.93 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 62,466.93 Donate	too bad Dawson and Scully couldn't end their relationship amicably. Dawson has to know that it wasn't Scully's fault he lost that fight.... making 168 is what killed him and made him look pathetic