Insider Notebook: Katsidis-Marquez; Heavies, Juanma
By Robert Morales - John Bray was a highly touted amateur back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and he went on to have a respectable professional career in the heavyweight division, going 15-3-2 with five knockouts from 1992-1998. Bray never had a pro bout with any of the big names of his day, but he certainly sparred with the best. When Bray was still an 18-year-old amateur, he helped Evander Holyfield get ready for James "Quick" Tillis in July 1988. "And I sparred with Lennox Lewis for Lionel Butler and Ray Mercer and with Mike Tyson for Bruce Seldon and both Holyfield fights," Bray said. When the subject was broached during a telephone interview Tuesday, Bray didn't want to get into the age-old debate of how the Klitschko brothers - world champions Wladimir and Vitali - would have done against the champions of that era such as Holyfield, Tyson, Riddick Bowe and Lewis.