Some Serious History For You Guys :)

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

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[Dorian]

Mmmmkay...

[Silencers]

Some very interesting stuff there.

[Grebs Ghost]

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About R.Smith comment
Thats nice and all too true.
Anyone can sit on the outside and play arm chair quarter back but until you have walked in a fighters shoes, Respect that fact.
It matters not if your a 3-11 record Joe sixpack or 25-0 top contender.Respect is due!
Well put together Iceman.
Whats up Ice,I STILL think you nicked It Vs. Nunn

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

me, too

[OBOMBER]

Perfect article to go with the petition for Iceman to repalce Max Kellerman.

[Orange Sneakers]

Nigel Benn avenged (in 1986) his only loss (in 1985) to Rod Douglas, who was robbed against Canadian Shawn O'Sullivan (reigning world amateur champion) at the 1984 Olympics (O'Sullivan was robbed against Frank Tate in the final). Nigel knocked Rod down a couple of times and beat the crap out of him, stopping him. Douglas was a hot young lion as a pro, great prospect, but his people threw him in with Herol Graham far too quickly... the Benn-Douglas fights were explosive and exciting, Benn was battered badly after the first one.

Ricky Hatton was knocked out by current WBC #2 or #3 super-middleweight contender Jurgen Brahmer. Brahmer also beat Felix Sturm (Sturm beat Jermain Taylor).

Joe Calzaghe stopped future pro world champion's Glenn Catley and Jason Matthews and future pro European champion Dean Francis, in 1992 and 1993. He had a close fight with future pro prospect Matthew Smyth as an under-developed 18-year-old when Smyth was 20. Joe also out-pointed future pro world champion Otkay Urkal abroard.

[Orange Sneakers]

Chris Eubank's last loss before Collins was 10 years earlier to the month in the New York Golden Gloves semi-final against Jospeh Henry at MSG.

Naseem Hamed's last loss before Barrera was against Dean Pithie in 1989. So, Hamed went undefeated for the whole of the 1990s!

[htowntexan08]

damn thats the **** i could spend all day reading about stuff like that. i am a 23 year old trainer and my dad was an assistant trainer to kenny weldon in corpus christi texas back in the day, so i really try to be a student of the game. Now that i read that was is your book going to consist of? i would mind spending the 25$ on something real interesting that will build my knowledge of the game.

[La_Vibora]

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First off, good read there John! I knew about many of these amateur bouts, but it is good to see a more detailed report about them. Just wanted to ask you if you knew of a fighter who fought in the amateurs at 165 during the late 80's/early 90's I believe who called himself the sandman? I met a gentlemen down in Florida about a year ago who told me that he fought Jones in the amateurs. When he turned pro he he ended up going to the Kronk to train with Manny Steward and he regularly sparred with Gerald McClellan. He told me his name, I wanted to look him up, but alot of crazy things happened that day and I forgot what his name was. He was pretty tall about 6'4, light skin black guy(actually sounded like Roy Jones a bit), when he showed me his boxing stance he stepped his left foot back to go southpaw so I am guessing he fought southpaw, and he called himself the Sandman. I was curious to find out more info about his career. If this fighter sounds familiar I would definitely appreciate any info you could give me about him.