What A Night!

[rj_ct]

You know, back in the old days they used to make a nice production out of introducing all the fighters from ringside in the ring at big fights...tonight they showed ALI-FOLLEY from MSG....1967...and in the ring they had -among others- Willie Pep, James J. Braddock, Joe Louis, Rocky Graziano and Sugar Ray Robinson. Pep, Robinson, Louis and Ali all right there a few feet away from each other. Must have been something to see live

being italian and from connecticut it sucks that i never got a chance to meet willie pep. i see all the pictures of guys at my gym posing for photos with him and it just bums me out.

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

If I knew how to get stuff on youtube I would tape some sparring and hook u guys up...I actually have this good amateur light heavy from here (the NE Champion , he's at the nationals today as we speak, fights tonight) and we go at it real hard. I wil get some on here sooner or later.

rj-ct...where in CT are you? What gym???

ICE

[rj_ct]

If I knew how to get stuff on youtube I would tape some sparring and hook u guys up...I actually have this good amateur light heavy from here (the NE Champion , he's at the nationals today as we speak, fights tonight) and we go at it real hard. I wil get some on here sooner or later.

rj-ct...where in CT are you? What gym???

ICE

i'm from the waterbury area, but i live and train in albany, new york right now. right now i'm at capital city boxing, which just opened. before that i was at the albany ymca. same trainer though.

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

Albany.... good spot. I know quite a few people from that area. Do you box there as an amateur? Did you box in Waterbury??

ICE

[rj_ct]

no, i didn't box in waterbury. i had my first am fight on the 19th in kingston, which was pretty lousy. i lost the decision, mainly because i didn't throw enough punches. i was just thinking too much, trying to make all these moves, counter, etc. when i should have just gone out and fought the kid. i just wasn't myself in there. neither one of us landed anything significant. i'll get a chance to redeem myself on the 16th in long island. i'll also be fighting at 141, not 152, which should work to my advantage.

you're out of hartford, correct?

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

Yes I am out of Hartford...the fight in Kingston, did Brian Demorest do that fight show????? Whenever I am in Kingston I cant help but think of Billy Costello

[rj_ct]

Yes I am out of Hartford...the fight in Kingston, did Brian Demorest do that fight show????? Whenever I am in Kingston I cant help but think of Billy Costello

we drove by demorest's gym, but this was a kingston PAL show, so i'm not sure. isn't that billy costello's program?

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

No idea, really. Havent been to Kingston in a while. Clay-Bey and I used to go to camp in Kerhonskon and sometimes we'd go to Brian's gym for sparring. Stan Hoffman's camp/house is right up the road ,thats where we'd stay. I used to stay in the same room, sleep in the same bed, that Rahman used when he fought and beat Lennox the first time. When Rock came to camp I'd have to get out though lolol, that was his room when he was there hahah. You ever train at Stan's place? It's private but sometimes outside guys are allowed in for sparring etc...on any given day u would have Rock, Clay-Bey, Jo-El Scott, Monte Barret, Eddie Chambers, Brandon Mitchem, Joppy, Muriqui etc etc.

[sterling]

That sounds great i would of loved to see sugar ray robinson.