"Iceman" John Scully's Amateur Boxing Reunion

(Media is welcome to attend)

 

Rival Boxing Store, Sunset Rd., Las Vegas, Nevada

Saturday December 13, 2014

Tentative start time 1 p.m.

 

December 13 in Las Vegas. Many years in the making. Hoping to turn this into a heavily sponsored annual event. This year we are doing it on our own pretty much. Russ Anber of Rival Boxing Products (offices in Montreal and Las Vegas) has graciously allowed us to use his store on Sunset in Las Vegas to meet at.

 

I have found myself over the years enjoying numerous mini-reunions with small groups of former amateur peers of mine, maybe three or four of us at a time at a fight or a similar boxing event), and have always thought how great it would be if somehow a large group of us from my era (late 1980's, Olympic class of 1988) could all meet up somewhere. Former champ William Guthrie told me that he had a similar idea and was even looking into getting sponsorships from airlines and hotels. I then kind of joined forces with William and set out to get such sponsorships but as of yet have been unable to do so.

 

Thinking about it, I realized that I am in touch with a great many former amateur boxers from many different eras (mainly from the 1970's through the early 2000's) and I just decided one day not long ago to let a group of them know I will be in Las Vegas for the WBC Convention in December and that if any of them wanted to come out and get together for a day or so it would be a welcome addition to the trip.

 

What has resulted so far and will continue to build I am sure is a reunion that will see amateur boxers from the Classes of 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 gather in Las Vegas on December 13th for what I hope will be the first of many such gatherings!

 

Note: Vinny Paz was forced to withdraw due to the filming of the movie of his life at the same time. Roy Jones Jr. has indicated that he will appear if he is not away at the time on boxing business. I am still awaiting confirmation from the likes of Lamon Brewster, Chris Byrd, Paul Vaden, Otis Grant and many others.

 

The list of fighters is growing on a daily basis and a partial (and still growing) list of confirmed attendees is as follows:  

Four-time New York City Golden Gloves Champion Alex "The Bronx Bomber" Ramos 

Ron Essett 1983 North American Champion, 1982 USA/ABF National Champion

 

1988 U.S. Olympic and U.S. ARMY head coach Kenny Adams.

 

1985 National Golden Gloves 165 pound champion (and later on, IBF light heavyweight champion) William Guthrie

1988 U.S. National Champion and WBA Super middleweight Champion "Fabulous" Frankie Liles

1997/2000 USA/ABF National Champion LeChaunce Shepherd

 

1986 World Champion, 1987 USA/ABF National Champion, 1987 Pan-American Champ, 1988 U.S. Olympian Kelcie Banks

DaVarryl "Touch Of Sleep" Williamson 1996 201 pound USA Olympic alternate

 

1999 Pan-American Games Champion 119 pound Gerald Tucker

 

Tony "The Tiger" Lopez, IBF/WBA Super featherweight champion, WBA lightweight champion

 

Ricky Jones 1989 USA/ABF National Champion

 

Razz Chapin 1988 Western Olympic Trials 178 pound Champion

1986 National Golden Gloves 165 pound Champion Bomani Parker (aka Parker White)

 

World Champion Danny "Kid Dynamite" Romero

 

1980 and 1984 U.S. Olympian Robert Shannon

 

1987 National Golden Gloves Champion Donald "Tiger" Stokes

Thomas "Ice-T" Tate, 1988 Western Olympic trials 156 pound Champion

 

Steven Stokes, U.S. Marines, 1998 U.S. Armed Forces Runner-Up

1989 National Junior Olympic Champion Clarence "Bones" Adams

1988 Eastern U.S. Olympic trials 125 pounds Champion Kevin Kelley

1992 Olympic Silver Medalist (Ireland) 119 pounds Wayne McCullough

1982 National AAU 106 pound Champion Mario L 'Esperance

 

Darrell Stubblefield, 1984 Olympic Trials 165 pound Participant (lost to Michael Nunn)

1976 National AAU Champion Bret Summers

Andy Nance, California Junior welterweight Champion

1984 U.S. Olympic 132 pound alternate Joey Belinc (lost HIGHLY disputed decision to Sweet Pea Whitaker)

 

1996 National Golden Gloves 147 pound Champion Brandon Mitchem

 

1996 U.S. 119 pound Olympian Zahir Raheem

 

1984 Olympic 156 pound Gold Medalist Frank Tate

Fareed Samad 1994 U.S. National Welterweight Champion

Ron Simms 1995 Pan-American Games USA representative @ 165 pounds

Mark Simmons 2000 Canadian Olympic heavyweight

 

1993 New England Golden Gloves Champion Richie "The Mountain" La Montagne

 

1988 Eastern U.S. Olympic trials 125 pound Runner-Up "Sucra" Ray Oliviera

David Gauvin 1984 New England Golden Gloves 119 pound Champion 

 

1983 U.S. Under-19 National 147 pound Champion Richard Torrez

 

1997 National Junior Olympic 95 pound Champion Sammy Vega

 

2000 U.S. Armed Forces 132 pound Champion Orlando Cordova

 

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, April 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, February 2003, Journal Inquirer (Manchester, Conn.) Newspaper