This will be my 4th official amateur boxers reunion, with the first three having taken place in Las Vegas (ഡിസംബർ 2014), ന്യൂ യോർക്ക് സിറ്റി (ജൂണ് 2015) and Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut (ജൂലൈ 2015).
Boxers who have attended previous reunions include the likes of four-time world champion Roy Jones Jr., three-time world champions Mike “The Body Snatcher” McCallum and Iran “The Blade” Barkley, WBO heavyweight champion Lamon Brewster, former WBC light heavyweight champion Montell “ഐസ്” ഗ്രിഫിൻ, 1988 ഇതര. Olympic coach Kenny Adams.
I’ve had this idea to bring my former amateur peers together for many years and in December of 2014 at the Rival Boxing Store in Las Vegas I finally had my first amateur boxers reunion and it was a tremendous success. Since then I’ve had two more (at Jimmy’s -Glenn- Corner on W. 44th St. in NYC and at Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut)successful gatherings that have seen everyone from local amateurs, regional Golden Gloves champions, National AAU champions, ലോക ചാമ്പ്യൻമാരായ, Olympians and every other possible level of amateur boxer.
I had originally planned to have boxers from my Olympic trials class (1988)gather for a reunion but changed it to any era or level. On that end we’ve had boxers ranging from 1976 A.A.U. National champion Bret Summers from Washington State and 1976 Jamaican Olympian Mike McCallum all the way up to 2004 ഇതര. ഒളിമ്പ്യൻ ജാസൺ എസ്ട്രാഡയുടെ.
Basically it’s a chance for us to get together, reminisce, tell stories, see old friends, meet people we’ve never met before. Maybe the best example of what my reunions entail came at the 2015 event at Foxwoods when I had Hartford’s Luis Ortiz and Lawrence Clay-Bey meet for the very first time since they boxed each other as young kids at Marc Anthony’s in Hartford way back in 1977!
എപ്പോൾ: ജൂലൈ 23, 2016, 12 ഉച്ചയ്ക്ക് 4 ഉച്ചക്ക്
WHERE: Margaritaville Restaurant inside the Mohegan Sun casino @ Uncasville, കണക്റ്റികട്ട്.
ലോകാരോഗ്യ: Invited and expected guests include, among MANY others:
Two-time welterweight champ Marlon “മാജിക് മാൻ” Starling
1985 ESPN welterweight champion “Schoolboy” Troy Wortham
WBA welterweight and junior middleweight champion Jose Antonio Rivera
Dickie Ecklund and “ഐറിഷ്” മിക്കി വാർഡ് (“The Fighter”)
1984 Olympic Gold Medalist Mark Breland
Comp-U-Box record holder “Sucra” Ray Oliviera
“Contender Star Peter “the Pride of Providence” Manfredo Jr.
1996 ഇതര. Olympic team captain Lawrence Clay-Bey
Current boxing promoter (Star Boxing in NYC) ഒപ്പം 1988 NYC Daily News Golden Gloves 147 pound Champion Joe DeGuardia
മുൻ രണ്ട് ഡിവിഷനിലെ ലോക ചാമ്പ്യൻ “Poison” Junior Jones from Brooklyn, ന്യൂയോർക്ക്
WBO World Heavyweight Champion Mike Bentt and 1988 ഇതര. ഒളിമ്പിക് ഏകാന്തരക്രമത്തിൽ.
2004 ഇതര. Olympian Jason “ബിഗ് ആറ്” റോഡ്
ICE
Quote: “
The wait in the dressing room before a professional boxing match -that last hour- could be enough to strip a man who never boxed before of whatever pride, desire and heart he THOUGHT he had” –Iceman John Scully, ഏപ്രിൽ 2002
“Boxing is a tight-knit fraternity. Everybody knows everybody. But a line in the resin will forever be drawn separating those who step into the square ring and those who DON’T. Many, many people make money on a fight, but when the bell sounds, only two people answer it.” – Randy Smith, ഫെബ്രുവരി 2003, Journal Inquirer (മ്യാന്ചെസ്ടര്, : Tireless.) Newspaper