Bu benim 4. resmi amatör boksörler buluşmam olacak., ilk üçü Las Vegas'ta gerçekleşti (Aralık 2014), New York (Haziran 2015) ve Connecticut'taki Foxwoods Kumarhanesi (Temmuz 2015).
Daha önceki toplantılara katılan boksörler arasında dört kez dünya şampiyonu olan Roy Jones Jr., üç kez dünya şampiyonu Mike “vücut hırsızı” McCallum ve İran “Kılıç” barkley, WBO ağır siklet şampiyonu Lamon Brewster, eski WBC hafif ağır siklet şampiyonu Montell “buz” grifon, 1988 ABD'yi. Olimpiyat koçu Kenny Adams.
Eski amatör meslektaşlarımı uzun yıllardır ve Aralık ayında bir araya getirmek için bu fikrim vardı. 2014 Las Vegas'taki Rival Boxing Store'da nihayet ilk amatör boksörler buluşmamı gerçekleştirdim ve bu muazzam bir başarıydı.. 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, Dünya şampiyonu, 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 ABD'yi. Olimpiya Jason Estrada.
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!
NE ZAMAN: Temmuz 23, 2016, 12 için öğlen 4 pm
NEREDE: Margaritaville Restaurant inside the Mohegan Sun casino @ Uncasville, Connecticut.
DSÖ: Invited and expected guests include, among MANY others:
Two-time welterweight champ Marlon “Sihirli Adam” Starling
1985 ESPN welterweight champion “Schoolboy” Troy Wortham
WBA welterweight and junior middleweight champion Jose Antonio Rivera
Dickie Ecklund and “İrlanda” Micky Ward (“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 ABD'yi. Olympic team captain Lawrence Clay-Bey
Current boxing promoter (Star Boxing in NYC) ve 1988 NYC Daily News Golden Gloves 147 pound Champion Joe DeGuardia
Eski iki bölümü dünya şampiyonu “Poison” Junior Jones from Brooklyn, NY
WBO World Heavyweight Champion Mike Bentt and 1988 ABD'yi. Olimpiyat alternatif.
2004 ABD'yi. Olympian Jason “Big Six” Yol
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” –Buz Adam John Scully, Nisan 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, Şubat 2003, Journal Inquirer (Manchester, Conn.) Newspaper