Big News :) For Me, Anyway...

[Del Coqui]

Well... as some of you know, I have been working on my book (THE ICEMAN DIARIES) for exactly FIVE years this Friday and have so much material that I have decided to break it all into three volumes. The first volume will be a literal DIARY that I have kept since the first week of 2003 (Beginning with me and my impressions of being at the Scottie Pemberton-Omar Sheika rematch). I go day to day (not EVERY day, of course) through training camps (In real time format), big fights in the boxing world, world events other than boxing (Saddam Hussain capture and death, etc).

There are interesting (in my opinion, at least) day to day observations of the training camps Lawrence of Clay-Bey, Mike Oliver, Matt Godfrey, Jose Rivera, Chad Dawson, Scott Pemberton, Ray Olivera, etc etc)

It's literally like a history book focused on boxing and the ins and outs of the day day training and fighting etc that goes on for the years 2003 - 2007. I have TONS of gym stories as well as interaction with likes of Toney, Jones, Trinidad, Moorer, Rahman, etc etc etc

I will be done on Friday and then all I have to do is edit it some more and then go to print after I decided what photos to include.

FINALLY!!

Ice

PS- I will include some excerpts later today when I get back from the gym.

Good luck with that John!!!

[Duke_McKenzie]

You got any chapters about Danny Williams, Scully?

[STEELHEAD]

congratulations scully. good luck . cant wait to read it with its pertainint time frame stuff.
thanks

[sterling]

cool man gd to hear this.

[eazy_mas]

well most people perfer to read a teenage girl dairy.

There is alot of drama, emotion, hormon reaction toward the action and also cat fights.

or the Bridget Jones daires

[oovavu]

you gotta call one of the chapters "the iceman commeth" great news tho, do you have a publisher?

[K-Nan]

Alright, Scully. I'll definitely be buying a copy.

Hey- talk about how Harold Lederman scored your Nunn fight like he was a drunk man!

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

I am basically going to publish it myself for the most part. I don't want an editor of theirs chopping it all up. Also, believe it or not, I never met Harold Lederman until a few months ago in person... but about a year ago he mailed me -he's a real nice guy- and told me he read some excerpts and wants to be one of the first one's to buy my book. I do touch on the scoring in that fight, etc. I'm fair, though, about it all.

[Guest]

Good news. For promotion, just have your boxers wear iceman john scully boxing trunks, and instead of the fighters name on their robes it could say buy scully's book.
Then when they ask you about the fight, don't praise god or the fighter, talk about your book. LOL

Anyways, that's great. It's been a long wait for some of us.

JReckoning

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

UNEDITED EXCERPT from Volume 1:

"April 2, 2005: Went with Rita to see the Jose Rivera-Luis Collazo title fight in Worcester. I filled in on short notice as a cornerman for Dan Sheehan who put up a pretty tough fight with former WBA champion Lou DelValle. I had gotten into the fight tonight as a representative for a website, www.ringsidereport.com, that I will take photos of the Rivera fight for. (How else do you think Rita got to sit up close in press row for the entire show?) My man Virgil Hill was there. Haven't seen him since Munich in 1996 before he fought Maske. Virgil's a good guy. He was here to scout the winner of Mormeck and Braithwaite. Meldrick Taylor was here, too. I don't really know Meldrick but I always looked up to him, and told him so, since he was a 125 pound amateur back in 1984. Former stand out amateurs now turned pro Curtis Stevens and Jaidon Codrington were at the fight to support gym mate Collazo. Curtis and Jaidon are young six round kids known in New York as "The Chin Checkers" who are making a lot of noise on that local scene. Both have some real potential. Remember the names.

I sparred with Jose for this fight and wanted him to win but Collazo boxed his behind off, back pedaling in that slick southpaw stance, circling the perimeter of the ring and flurrying often on the inside. Jose made him work very hard every single round and won some of them, too, but Luis deserved the win in the end I would say due to his cleaner punching and slicker style. Another prospect from New York, a good 122 pounder named Gary "Kid" Stark, was there pulling hard for his man Luis. A lot of New York guys were there for Luis and that made the fight that much more exciting. Winning always brings joy and it's hard to debate with someone caught up in the joy of impending victory.

I wanted to tell Gary, though, for his own knowledge in regard to his own career, as well as to point out what was happening on this night, that you can laugh and be ****y and show joy at winning but don't forget -if you even know in the first place- what kind of respect Rivera deserves for his drive to keep working hard, chugging forward and accepting blows on an already swollen eye and a bruised ego if not spirit. At times like this I always wonder if the new champion, if put in the very same situation, would be able to show the same courage as the man he just defeated did tonight? I suppose sooner or later his worth as a champion will be decided if and when he ever finds himself in Rivera's shoes. He lost the fight but, in many ways, Rivera showed as many championship qualities as Collazo did over all of those twelve. Not many young pros really know what that even means yet."