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Iceman John Scully, once world-ranked light heavy, now boxing trainer, author (Iceman Diaries) analyst @ ESPN Classic TV and star of the reality show KNOCKOUT

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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
2 years
Would Jada's honor be as important to Will Smith if Mike Tyson was the one telling the joke??? Nope. NO CHANCE.
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One of the most underrated and minimally talked about fights in the history of boxing
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Marvelous Marvin Hagler vs John Mugabi. March 10, 1986.
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@IceJohnScully
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Back in late 2003 this was the POUND4POUND top 10...AWESOME FROM TOP TO BOTTOM...
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@IceJohnScully
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R.I.P. Chico Corrales. Las Vegas. Someone left a bottle of beer on top of his grave...and it gave me chills, at the bottom it was engraved, "Give Me One More Round" @ringmagazine @RussAnber @RAtheRuggedMan @vinnie_paz
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@IceJohnScully
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3 years
I had a guy tell me one time thst he watches a lot of boxing and one of the biggest fights that he feels that "we missed out on was Hagler against Tyson." These are the people we have to deal with. #BOXING
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@IceJohnScully
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3 years
His RIDICULOUS attacks on Mark make Wilder one of the most unlikable fighters ever
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@IceJohnScully
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1 year
Only my second time seeing Gerald in person since @SugarRayLeonard training camp back in 1988 (in Detroit on Saturday )…as you may know, the champ requires 24 hour care for life which is given by his sister Lisa…any donations are EXTREMELY welcome and appreciated!
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@IceJohnScully
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1 year
Fist bump with the CHAMP … #JustOneMoreRound
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@IceJohnScully
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2 years
Truly SAD to see what Jada Pinkett has reduced Will Smith to.
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
2 years
It IS what it IS. Nooooo disrespect BUT Clarrisa Sheilds "undisputed titles" in NO way EVER should be compared or mentioned alongside Hagler's or Leonard's UNDISPUTED titles. I don't care WHO thinks otherwise. It's a crime against boxing to think they are some comparable!!!!
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
3 years
HOW can a trainer who had his fighters beat Hearns, Toney, Barkley, Duran twice!!, Tyson, Briscoe and undefeated Mugabi and take a guy literally from his 1st day in the gym as a kid all the way up to one of the greatest Hall of Fame careers ever NOT be in the Boxing Hall of Fame?
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@IceJohnScully
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1 year
My 1st time carrying a belt into the ring for a fighter…
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@IceJohnScully
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4 years
Larry Holmes better go somewhere with trying to tell people he took it easy and held back on Ali in 1980...STOP IT...WATCH the fight. There were times he was RIPPING VICIOUS shots trying to crush Ali...always been jealous, u can hear it in him on video many times.
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@IceJohnScully
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2 years
PANAMA LEWIS WAS A DEVIL… #NeverForget
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@IceJohnScully
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1 year
“It happened!!!”
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@IceJohnScully
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4 years
World Heavyweight Rankings early 1964. By 1967 Ali had fought and beaten NINE of the TEN!! @BreadmanBoxing @RussAnber @EamonOfficial @dougiefischer @PeltzBoxing @Tom_Gray_Boxing @thomashauser @tgerbasi
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
2 years
I come from a people who can name the guy with half his face blocked out right behind Marvelous Marvin Hagler. There is a certain segment of the population on Earth who can instantly tell you who that guy is and I'm definitely one of them. Are you?
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
3 years
Real pic, actual fight crowd...the little white spot is THE RING
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@IceJohnScully
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1 year
The trend continues. The days of a father bringing his boxing loving sons to watch fights in Las Vegas are over with. No one can afford these prices. XXXX THESE GUYS
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
4 years
I cant believe u guys want to see Mayweather-McGregor II. I have still NOT watched their first fight. NO INTEREST IN IT, even on YouTube. WHY DO U WANT TO SEE A REMATCH???????
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1 year
I come from a people who know EXACTLY who these two are and what happened here and when…and if u don’t know within 0.0002 seconds that we may not be able to really relate…
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
2 years
SALMA DOES NOT GET THE CREDIT SHE DESERVES!!! @salmahayek I SEE YOU 😁
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
3 years
Aaaaaand STILL. #GoodStuff
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
5 years
Gerald McClellan's Official GoFundMe Page EVERY DIME IS DEEPLY APPRECIATED BY THEM!!!!
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
1 year
@FloydMayweather ⁩ I’m not able to reach you through private messenger so I have to tweet. I’ll be in Vegas soon. Is there any way you could sign this for me to auction off to raise big money for Prichard Colon, Gerald McClellan & Wilfred Benitez??????
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ICEMANJohnScully
2 years
MYSTERY: WHY don't people ever talk about Toney-Jirov as a legendary great fight, performance (JT) and upset????????
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
5 years
I do not associate with people who cannot glance at this picture and know immediately who the two fighters are and what the date was and what city they were in and what arena they competed against each other in and who the referee was just based on the trunks they are wearing...
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
5 years
The biggest lie repeated the most times throughout this country in the history of boxing: "My uncle was Golden Gloves"
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
3 years
Hagler-Hearns is great but watch HAGLER-MUGABI to see special stuff from MMH!"
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
3 years
ALL due respect but... this is one of the most ridiculous tweets I've ever seen in my life regarding boxing
@llcoolj
LLCOOLJ
3 years
Canelo vs usyk at a catch weight. Talk to me.
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
4 years
I was a pallbearer at his funeral and it is a literal disgrace and tragedy that the only boxing people who showed up were myself and Marlon Starling
@BoxerJoeGrim
Historic Boxing
4 years
Two-time World Featherweight Champion Willie Pep, aka "Will o' the Wisp", was born in Middletown, Connecticut, #OnThisDay in 1922.
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@IceJohnScully
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2 years
I love boxing. I hate the business of boxing. The people in charge of boxing are not the people who love boxing
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
10 months
Ran into James Toney a few months ago, 30 years after we first sparred with each other. He’s still sneaky ha ha.
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@IceJohnScully
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4 years
We have "world champions" who never fight more than 10 miles from where they live. Ali fought in Puerto Rico, Canada, Phillipines, Africa, Japan, Ireland, England, Germany... WORLD Champion...
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
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Marlon Starling beat: Lloyd Honeyghan Mark Breland (undefeated) Kevin Howard Tommy Ayers (undefeated) Jose Baret (undefeated) Mayweather Sr (twice) Lupe Aquino Simon Brown (undefeated) Pedro Vilella AND HE’S NOT EVEN ON THE HALL OF FAME BALLOT
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
2 months
Imagine if someone took $1 million out of Ryan Garcia‘s fine for not making weight and put it into a fund to use to help with bills and groceries for people like Gerald McClellan Pritchard Colon and Wilfred Benitez?????????? @dougiefischer @thomashauser @boxingscene
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
8 months
Even on Thanksgiving, I only deal with people who know instantly what HUGE thing the referee in the middle has in common with the two other guys…
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
11 months
Between November 1979 and September 1981…22 months …Sugar Ray Leonard beat Wilfred Benitez, Roberto Duran and Tommy Hearns (15 round fights) I’d say no one else in a 22 month span beat the level of a prime Benitez, Duran and Hearns. Can you think of any?
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
4 years
I didnt watch but saw this just now from last night. @ShowtimeBoxing should be ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES for daring to try and pass this off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @dougiefischer @boxingwriters
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
5 years
I dont care how good Pac looked. I dont care if he could even beat Floyd now. If you suckers pay for a rematch between those 2 Im gonna unfriend and block u from Facebook and delete all ur phone numbers and pretend I dont even know you when I see u on the street @dougiefischer
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ICEMANJohnScully
2 months
Haney and Fury dad’s are further proof that “little league dads” should be illegal… they can’t handle the spotlight, they live vicariously through their sons and they are an embarrassment to our sport, to each and every one of us…
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
2 years
Checks going out today, helping fighters in need….thank you to all who purchase and donate…
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
3 years
CHOCOLATITO signs his cover issue of @ringmagazine for me...AUCTIONING IT. Proceeds to McClellan, Benitez, Colon.
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
4 years
STOP showing videos of a 6-yr-old kid hitting the mitts and then commenting how he's going to be in the Olympics and a future world championloop I could show you 500 kids looking ten times better than he does and they probably won't even turn pro.
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@IceJohnScully
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1 year
She was an 11 on a scale of 1-10…and back in 1989 those South African scum killed her and threw her off a dock…
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
3 years
Check for Wilfred Benitez going out today...it's simple. I put items up, you buy them, I give the $$$ to fighters in need...
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
4 years
If you pay to watch Manny Paquiou vs Conor McGregor I'm unfriending you...and if you come on here telling me that McGregor is in better shape and is the harder puncher then I'm BANNING you lolol
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
1 year
42nd St. NYC Times tonight…. Dennis Milton, Iran Barkley, Michael Olajide, Junior Jones, Al Cole, Lonnie Davis, Claude, John Scully…LUNCH $$ SAFE….
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@IceJohnScully
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3 years
FACT: Terry Norris at his best was PHENOMENAL...had ATG level skills...
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
2 years
Every real boxing fan knows this arena JUST BY THE CEILING LIGHTS
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
4 years
100000000000000000 pct!!!!
@BoxingNewsED
Boxing News
4 years
James Toney belongs in the Hall of Fame, writes @IceJohnScully :
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ICEMANJohnScully
1 year
This is one of the problems within our sport. We allow these buffoon clowns to infiltrate it and in part represent us. An embarrassment to the sports world
@HotBoxingMinute
HotBoxingMinute
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YOU GONNA GET BEAT UP BY LORD DEVIN HANEY ! THE KING, THE MASTER, THE BEST THAT EVER DID IT ! AND EDDIE HEARN…IT’S DEVIN’S TURN !🤣🤣💀 #HaneyLomachenko
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This was in his hotel room a few hours after he beat Bernard Hopkins for his first world title, May 22, 1993…Washington DC…
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ARTUR BETERBIEV is the only guy who I’ve ever seen who has actually gotten BETTER in his mid-30s @dougiefischer @RussAnber
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
2 years
Micky Ward and I tonight in West Palm hanging with the former WBC heavyweight champion of the world
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1 year
Boxers Reunion/Times Square yesterday. Tom Patti (Catskill) and Farrod Pinchback (Brooklyn) fought 37 YEARS ago-Empire State Games in New York in the finals. Yesterday they met each other yesterday for the first time since. Farrod, the gold medalist, cried like a baby!!
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2 years
The greatest sketcher of ALLLLLL TIMES!!
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ICEMANJohnScully
2 years
I challenge people to name ANYONE with four wins better than Ray's top 4. Benitez, Duran, Hearns, Hagler. And DO NOT tell me Hagler was old. He was 32 and people thought Ray was going to get KILLED!! @RussAnber @rkmatchmaker @BruceTrampler @BreadmanBoxing @BRISCOEBOXING
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2 years
After meeting and interacting in person with Shields I am literally shocked that she had the nerve to say this about ANYONE else. She needs to look DEEP into a mirror
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@IceJohnScully
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2 years
Micky Ward and Pinklon Thomas in Florida last week...
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@IceJohnScully
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4 years
This guy is THE best light heavyweight on Earth. PERIOD.
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@IceJohnScully
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There is a HUGE difference between a BOXING “expert” who can tell you the date and history behind every fight and the expert who can teach you the intricacies of boxing techniques…
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
3 years
Boxing business is INSANE...imagine not being able to get a fight with a guy UNLESS you signed a deal going forward with the person who gives it to you?
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Shouldn’t be a sticking point for more than a day. “No, thank you, we, Team Canelo, are happy as we are. There will be no signing of a multi fight deal with you, PBC. No offense, of course, but let’s make this fight and go from there.”
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3 years
Just met him for the first time since our fight in 1995...
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
2 years
“If I had that Mayweather money none of these guys would have to worry about food or the mortgage ever again”
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
1 year
Emanuel Steward told me in April 2012 that THIS MAN was the greatest talent ever to come out of @RealKronkGym @dougiefischer @TarickSalmaci @BroncoMckart
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
4 years
"I dont think Wilder realizes the boxing community has way more respect for Breland than they do him." - John Mabb
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
3 years
BENITEZ...
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
3 years
Ayala was a RAPIST... if he raped your 17 year old daughter would you want to see me on here defending him? Come on now. We all make "mistakes" but we don't all RAPE people. That is not a mistake. Seriously. That is not a mistake. A mistake is spelling LOOSE instead of LOSE.
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ICEMANJohnScully
3 years
HOW is it possible that this man - former welterweight champ Carlos Palomino - is 72 years old????!!!!????? @RussAnber @vinnie_paz @RAtheRuggedMan @dmightyman34 @AlBernstein
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ICEMANJohnScully
1 year
MICKY WARD signing the WBC belt for me right now…adding to Grant, Lemieux, Pascal, Hilton, Starling and BETERBIEV…
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ICEMANJohnScully
2 years
You’ll NEVER see this again. James Toney scores HUGE upset over Michael Nunn, then defends vs Reggie Johnson ONE MONTH LATER. Finishes the year with SIX fights!!!!!!!
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Telling TOMMY HEARNS that I’m gonna tell Wilfred Benitez’ sister he signed the belt to help raise money to help him ⁦ @rkmatchmaker ⁩ ⁦ @dougiefischer
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ICEMANJohnScully
4 years
Ali: Im gonna' beat George Foreman and you're gonna' beat cancer." Kid: "No, champ, I'm gonna' meet GOD and when I do I'm going to tell him I know you." Whenever I watch the video with Gene Kilroy telling the story I was find myself losing it just a little bit.
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
4 years
It's very strange that Terry Norris is not frequently talked about today. He was an unbelievable fighter with bravery out of this world and almost unmatched skill
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
7 years
Loma-Rigo may be a disappointment. They both have skills-reflexes that are gonna kind of cancel each other out. They are both probably going to miss more than either has ever before and the winner is going to have to push himself more than he ever has to overcome the style issue.
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
5 months
Jamaine wasn’t busy enough????? He needed to throw more punches????????? Ummmm….you DO know he threw almost 50 more punches than Teofimo Lopez, right??
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
1 year
Visited OBA CARR in Detroit the other day…35 YEARS after both of us fought at the 1987 Ohio State Fair!! @USABoxing @USABoxingAlumni
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
8 years
It is NO joke in there. A world all its own. Professional boxers will tell you...
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
6 years
BOXING NEWS UPDATE: I just got a phone call from Michael Nunn yesterday and it looks like he might be out of federal prison in less than 100 days.
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ICEMANJohnScully
4 years
Panama was WAS EVIL in what he did to Billy Collins. I'm amazed there are boxing people touting him today when the fact is that this act resulted in the crushing of a soul, spirit and life. Billy's death IS PANAMA'S FAULT. #HeWasAnEnemyOfBoxing !!
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
4 years
No disrespect to any females whatsoever but you absolutely cannot compare their accomplishments to the men. Records are definitely separate
@BoxingNewsED
Boxing News
4 years
Perspective on Claressa Shields' achievements from @IceJohnScully :
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Roy Jones father (Big Roy) once told me he has footage of Roy and Ray Leonard sparring with each other back in the day but that he literally doesn’t know where in the house the tape actually is ha ha I told him I dont think he understands how badly people would love to see that
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
5 years
Keith Thurman is my guy but the WBA "unifying" their own welterweight title is too bizarre to even put into words...
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ICEMANJohnScully
7 years
Marvin Hagler to the ref who asked him during the Hearns fight if he could see the blood from his forehead cut: "I aint missing him, am I?"
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ICEMANJohnScully
7 years
IBA, IBC, IBO, WBF, WBB, are not world titles. Seriously.
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ICEMANJohnScully
5 years
One of the greatest top 10 list in history
@Tom_Gray_Boxing
Tom Gray
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A positively terrifying Top 10 at middleweight in the May 1991 issue of @ringmagazine . Wow! 😲😲😲 #boxing
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1 year
Floyd beats a PRIME Pea at 135??? Maybe. But I think some of you forget how unbelievably awesome Pernell was back then
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
1 year
Yaqui Lopez signed the WBC belt today, Jeff Chandler, Little Red Lopez and Carlos Zarate signed it yesterday. Added to BETERBIEV, David Lemieux, Marlon Starling, Otis and Howard Grant, Micky Ward and Jean Pascal!!
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I only deal with people who know exactly who these two guys are, what round they were in, where the fight took place and what the date was instantly off the top of their heads…
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ICEMANJohnScully
3 years
Larry "The Easton Assassin" Holmes had THE best jab EVER. Perfect set up and delivery. A WEAPON.
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ICEMANJohnScully
11 months
Hanging with Doug Dewitt right now in The Bronx… this is literally the first time I’ve seen this man since we sparred two days in a row at Gleason’s Gym in Brooklyn back in 1992 @dougiefischer @RussellPeltz @rkmatchmaker @BruceTrampler
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
4 years
Ken Norton said that when he woke up out of a coma after his car accident the first thing he saw was Muhammad Ali by his bedside doing magic tricks for him...
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
3 months
Shout out to the 132 people who always JUMP UP as soon as the lane lands, like it’s a race to see who gets to stand there for 12 minutes without moving even one foot
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@IceJohnScully
ICEMANJohnScully
4 years
Kid out of the Olympics, signs with a top promoter and beats 15 guys in a row and he will be ranked in the top 20 in the world by a major sanction body. Take another guy out of Idaho, no promoter, he beats THE SAME 15 guys, he won't be ranked in the top 50 ANYWHERE
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ICEMANJohnScully
1 year
Former undisputed heavyweight champion Buster Douglas just signed my two WBC belts for me to help raise money for fighters in need…
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ICEMANJohnScully
4 years
I don't care what anyone says. Having Sugar Ray Leonard say something positive about me as a boxer is one of the greatest compliments I've ever received in my life
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