YOU might be an amateur boxer if...

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

You might be an amateur boxer if... you have ever found yourself with twelve other people in a van on the way to a boxing tournament. And you have ever slept in the same bed as two of your teammates on one of those trips. Or you've been one of seven people crammed into a five passenger car on the way to a tournament. You've been forced to sleep on the floor at a tournament because there was no place else available. You've slept in the same room, driven in the same van, as one of the kids you will end up fighting sometime over the next few days. And you've woken up in the middle of the night after you lost at an amateur tournament with shaving cream on your face.

ICEMAN

[Puncher7]

Can totally relate to this it reminds me of back in the day and simpler and great times for myself and friends

[clarkringone]

You may be an amatuer coach if you are sleeping on the floor on one side of the room while your 2 fighters are in one bed, John Scully's 3 fighters are in the other bed, and Scully is on the floor on the other side of the rrom.

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

Yes, that was Lake Placid right? I had just fought Nunn a month earlier and I was like, Man, I went from ESPN to sleeping on the floor of a motel room in just a few weeks LOL...COINCIDENTALLY, I am going back to that very same motel this Friday for the regionals...Region 1.

[squarering]

You might be an amatuer boxer if you carry your sandwhich and snacks in your spitbucket

[JOEY DAWEJKO]

This is a great post! It reminds me of my younger days haha. Driving to indiana in a 15 passenger van, with 22 peaople! For a 13 hour ride! I was only 11 and 125lb. It was for my regionals silver gloves. Believe it or not we had a great squad. Me, danny garcia, isreal and omar crespo, david weaver, lonnie jackson, raymond serrano, gabriel diaz, maurice kemp, his brother, dontae wright this guy sammy ( who eventually lost to adrian broner who is 9-0 as a pro now) Bear richardson,just to name a few. WOW! Some great names in philly. Haven't seen most of them in a long time! This truely was a great post! Keep them comming ICE MAN!


Joey D!

[chasity]

You might be an amateur boxer if you drive across the country with a scale checking your weight at EVERY reststop.

[squarering]

And spitting in you coke bottle instead of drinking from it. or

You might be an amateur boxer if you strip naked in front of a room full of strangers and think nothing of it, because with you shorts, you are .25lb over

Great post idea John S

[clarkringone]

Iceman, if your going back to the same hotel? We'll be over to go canoing on the Lake. I remember getting up that morning and taking the canoe out with Dwayne and Gregg, then we all went over to the training center. Good time. Not to be beaten by chasing a cheerleader team around a parking lot with bionic super-soakers.

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

Clarkie, yes, the one right next to the lake, across from the ice skating rink...the wife and baby crazy are coming with me...are they doing the JO's at the same time or at different times of the day???

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

Yea, nothing quite like seeing teenage cheerleaders from around the country in Columbus, Ohio fleeing the Super Soaker 2500

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

You might be an amateur boxer if you've spent plenty of time at a tournament somewhere looking at all the other boxers in the huge dressing room wondering to yourself, "Is that guy 132? How about him? Is he 132? That guy looks too big to be 132. I hope he's not 132. I'm 132 and I'm not nearly as big as him so I hope he's not 132 because if we both keep winning we will have to fight each other! What about him? 132? If he is, well, he's got the biggest biceps ever for a 132 pounder. That guy over there looks 132 but he's got a mustache! He's too old to be 132. Gotta be a skinny 147 pounder. I hope so."

[Unit]

you might be an amateur boxer if 2 days before a tournament you wet the hotel up and your co-trainer lets off the fire extinguisher covering the whole third floor with smoke, getting the team kicked out the hotel then dragging all your luggage by hand to another nearby hotel, all the while your trainer is pissed because he cant get a refund but you guys still manage to have a kick ass time & still get a belt & good experiance in the process

[Unit]

or you guys might be jerks

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

Unit, was that Ohio (The Ohio State Fair)??

[Unit]

ummm. I beleive that was ringsides 07 if Im not mistaken,

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

YOU MIGHT BE IN BOXING IF YOU KNOW "The Scale-A-Braters"...those friends of boxers who wait for the fighter they are with to step on the scale at the weigh-in...then when he makes the weight they go just about crazy, whooping, clapping, patting him on the back, celebrating like they already won the fight...I NEVER could understand that and I swear I think that 99 percent of them do it only because they saw someone else do it on TV and they think that is just the way it is done. I would love to stop one of them mid celebration and ask them, "Seriously, seriously, WHY are you bugging out right now? He made weight? What? He is SUPPOSED to make weight!"

I mean, it is just so crazy to me...I also like when the friends and hangers on of a fighter will literally crowd around him when he steps on the scale and they will INTENTLY look at the scale with serious looks on their faces LOL I LOVE THOSE GUYS!!! It's like u want to say, "Listen, idiot. Relax. It's not your job. You are just his friend from high school. Stop pretending you even know what you are looking at or why. They will tell you what he weighs in a second and then you can go into your super bowl winning celebration."

They are on par for me with the friends of the fighters who get in the ring with him before a fight and glare at the opponent like they are extras from the "gang fight" dance-off in Michael Jackson's early 80's "Beat It" video.

Shut up, take your stupid sunglasses off and go sit down in your free seat in the fourth row before this guy walks over and actually punches you in the mouth.