Originally posted by ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY
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John....
I remember they were trying to hype up a kid named Ron Essett. They ran a story on him in Bert Sugar's Boxing Illustrated, & his peple claimed he was the biggest hitting amateur out there.
I was pretty psyched when I tuned into an ABC show, & saw that Essett would be facing Breland. Breland knocked him out, I think in the second round.
That was just an amateur fight, with no kind of title or tourney on the line.
Damn....I'm almost tearing up, thinking back to those days !
"USA vs. The World In Amateur Boxing"....."Sugar Ray Leonard's Golden Gloves".....
Seeing chubby lil' Craig Payne upsetting Teo Stevenson....
Steve McCrory, Paul Gonzalez, the Canadians- DeWitt & O'Sullivan...
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