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Ika-6 nga Opisyal nga Amateur Boxing Reunion ni Iceman John Scully

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Sabado, Marso 18, 2017
12:00 Udto (hangtod sa palibot 3 pm)
@ Lounge ni Monique (aka 108 Lounge)
181 Silangan 108th Street
Sidlakang Harlem, New York
10029
Mapasigarbuhon ko nga opisyal nga ipahibalo ang akong ika-6 nga Opisyal nga Amateur Boxing Reunion nga mahitabo sa Marso 18 sa Monique's Lounge sa Harlem, New York. Nagpaabut ako sa labing kadaghan nga turn out sa bisan unsang nauna 5 reunion nga gihimo kaduha sa Rival Boxing sa Las Vegas, kausa sa Jimmy's Corner sa Manhattan ug kausa matag usa sa Connecticut's Mohegan Sun ug Foxwoods Casinos.
Sa ibabaw 100 mga boksidor nga motambong niini, taliwala kanila ako nagdahom sa mga sama sa 1988 Olympic Silver medalist Riddick Dakong Tatay Bowe, NYC Golden Gloves Champ “Hilo” Junior Jones, 1984 Kampyon sa Olympic Mark Breland, 1974 National Junior Olympic champion Marlon Starling, 1996 USA Olympic team captain Lawrence Clay-nga say ug 1988 National Golden Gloves Champion Mark “Ra Panasonic” Johnson.
Sa akong mga past reunion, lakip ang pinakabag-o nga gipahigayon sa Rival Boxing Store sa Las Vegas sa Nobyembre 18, kami adunay mga sama ni Roy Jones Jr., Alex “Ang Bronx Bomber” Ramos, 1992 Olympian nga si Montell Griffin, kanhi three time world champions Mike McCallum ug Iran Barkley, ug “Ang Manlalaban” ug Irish Micky Ward nga nanambong.
Lakip sa labing espesyal nga mga higayon sa akong mga reunion, naa mi ni Mike McCallum ug Alex Ramos, kinsa nagkita sa usag usa sa semi-finals sa 1980 NYC Bulawan nga Guwantis, pagkonektar pag-usab sa Las Vegas sa ulahi 2014, naa mi nila Luis Ortiz ug Lawrence Clay-Bey, nga gitigom 2015 sa Foxwoods human dili lamang magkita sa usag usa 38 MGA TUIG pero wala gani kabalo nga nag away sila sa usag usa 1977 hangtod sa pipila lang ka adlaw sa wala pa sila nagkita pag-usab ug sa NYC sa ting-init sa 2015 kami adunay 1984 Bulawan nga Guwantis sa New York City 156 pound champion ug runner up nga si Dennis “Ang Mago” Si Milton ug Jesse Lanton nagkonektar pag-usab.
Bisan kinsa nga media nga gusto nga motambong sa kalihokan sa Harlem, New York niadtong Marso 18 mas gidawat nga mahimong bahin sa kapistahan.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=htZpAj5JPHE&feature=youtu.be ...kanhi kampeon Michael Second To Nunn nga nanawag sa akong Amateur Boxers Reunion sa Las Vegas sa miaging tuig aron makigsulti sa kanhi (1986) kontra Alex “Ang Bronx Bomber” Ramos.
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“Iceman” John Scully’s 4th Official Amateur Boxing Reunion

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This will be my 4th official amateur boxers reunion, with the first three having taken place in Las Vegas (Disyembre 2014), New York City (Hunyo 2015) and Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut (Hulyo 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 “Ice” Griffin, 1988 U.S. 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, world champions, 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 U.S. Olympian 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!
KON: Hulyo 23, 2016, 12 udto sa 4 pm
DIIN: Margaritaville Restaurant inside the Mohegan Sun casino @ Uncasville, Connecticut.
KINSA: Invited and expected guests include, among MANY others:
Two-time welterweight champ Marlon “Magic Tawo” Starling
1985 ESPN welterweight champion “Schoolboy” Troy Wortham
WBA welterweight and junior middleweight champion Jose Antonio Rivera
Dickie Ecklund and “Ireland” Micky Ward (“Ang Manlalaban”)
1984 Olympic Gold Medalist Mark Breland
Comp-U-Box record holder “Sucra” Ray Oliviera
“Contender Star Peter “the Pride of Providence” Manfredo Jr.
1996 U.S. Olympic team captain Lawrence Clay-Bey
Current boxing promoter (Star Boxing in NYC) ug 1988 NYC Daily News Golden Gloves 147 pound Champion Joe DeGuardia
Kanhi nga duha ka-division world champion “Hilo” Junior Jones from Brooklyn, NY
WBO World Heavyweight Champion Mike Bentt and 1988 U.S. Olympic laing.
2004 U.S. Olympian Jason “Big Unom ka” Road

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 nga si John Scully, Abril 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, Pebrero 2003, Journal Inquirer (Manchester, Conn.) Newspaper

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One on One with Beibut Shumenov

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WBA cruiserweight world champion wants
Denis Lebedev fight to happen this summer

LAS VEGAS (Hunyo 5, 2016) – World Boxing Association (WBA) cruiserweight world champion Shumenov Beibu(17-2, 10 KOs) stopped No. 11-rated Junior “Hurricane” Wright (15-2-1, 12 KOs) sa 10th round sa ilang Mayo 21sttitle fight to remain mandatory challenger for unified WBA Super/International Boxing Federation (IBF) cruiserweight world champion Denis Lebedev (29-2, 22 KOs). The WBA mandated a Lebedev-Shumenov fight within 120 adlaw of May 21.

Shumenov, 32, mao ang usa ka 2004 Kazakhstan Olympian who lives and trains in Las Vegas. During his 9-year professional boxing career, Shumenov has defeated four world champions – Gabriel Campillo, Byron Mitchell, William Joppy ug Montell Griffin – ingon man usab sa pito ka world title challengers. Siya mao ang 8-2 (4 KOs) sa kalibutan sa title away
Below find a one-on-one interview with Shumenov:
(Photo by Yumio Yamada)
Evaluate your performance against Junior Wright in your last fight?
BS: “I am 100-percent a completely different fighter than in my previous fight against B.J. Bulak. Apan, at the beginning of this fight, I had a little bit of ring rust. The inactivity is really hard for me. I would like to be busier and fight more often. I already started training and doing light exercises, right after my fight on May 21st. In my next fight, I will be even more different fighter against Lebedev.”
How does it feel to be the only fighter from your country to be 2-division world champion?
BS: “I don’t really think about those things. My main goal is to unify all of the titles and fight all the best fighters.”
You’ve always wanted to unify as a way of determining who the best or real champ is. Sa 20-11, you almost fought a unification as WBA light heavyweight but then-WBO champion Juergen Braehmer who suddenly went home a few days before the scheduled unification fight. How does it feel to know that you will be fighting Lebedev for WBA super and IBF cruiserweight titles within 120 adlaw gikan sa Mayo 21?
BS: “This has always been my goal – to unify – and I’m motivated even more knowing that I am going to fight for those two titles very soon.”
Do you think a deal will be made between your manager, Al Haymon and Lebedev’s promoter, Andrei Ryabinsky, or will it go to purse bid?
BS: “It doesn’t concern me, whether it goes to a purse bid, or where the location is. Apan, I hope the parties can get the best deal worked out for everyone involved.”
If Lebedev doesn’t want to fight you and he relinquishes his WBA super title belt, where do you go from there, fight second-mandatory challenger Yunier Dorticos?
BS: “I have heard rumors that Lebedev doesn’t want to fight me and, if this is true and he relinquishes his WBA Super belt, then I want to fight Dorticos because every organization should only have one champion in each division. I hope this isn’t the case, as I have been waiting to fight Lebedev since I won the WBA interim title (mandatory) back in July of 2015. The WBA has ordered us to fight within 120 adlaw of May 21st. Ako andam, willing and able to fight him and I hope he is ready, usab.”
Fans mag-higala Beibut Shumenov sa iyang Facebook Fan Page sa www.facebook.com/BeibutShumenov.