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Thus Spake The Iceman

Posted: 26 Jan 2023, 08:18
by BroughtonRulesRefuge
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https://www.ringtv.com/648914-best-i-fa ... hn-scully/

John Scully- https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/6598

Anson Wainwright's Best I've Faced was Epic in the beginning, but now that the fighters have been reading them for so long, perhaps their responses are more jaded with payback towards rivals, but not Ice.

Ice in the mix as not only a popular contender, but inside the boxing world with his longtime contacts, esp Willie Pep and Roy Jones Jr.

One of the original AOL Forum Members as well starting his autobiography then, originally The Green Mile as I dimly recall, so I like to remind him of that start to buckle down so he can finish the Fight!

Stopped posting on Boxrec a while back, but I think he still checks things out now and again.

He mentions his prodigious sparring, true dat, and I had a standing offer to spar, but, alas, the only time we could've crossed paths was when he was training Lawrence Clay Bey for a fight at the Kickapoo Casino in Eagle Pass. When I called their hotel room to volunteer for water bucket duties, they was at the Casino, so by the time they got back it was too late for us to hook up. Clay Bay KOed Otis Tisdale, and that was that save Ice still in the mix for Beter/Yard in England this Saturday, the best fight of the weekend, so be there, or be square, or buy the PPV :TU:

Re: Thus Spake The Iceman

Posted: 30 Jan 2023, 21:43
by BroughtonRulesRefuge
- Ice was here when I first signed on, so sad he don't get any recognition from boxrec.

Thought I got a glimpse of him in Wembley, so congrats Ice and Team Beter for a top shelf professional performance sadly undercut by horrific Brit scoring. Hard to give Yarde a single round, and his supposed big 5th round?

Yeah, big flush shot, and so what does "badly hurt" Artur do? Don't even need slomo to see him glide with no effort to the corner to set up for expected incoming. Kid Yarde throws slop as Artur counters around him with no effort whatsoever to take ring center to let the beatings continue while barely breaking a sweat.

Artur very underrated, economically strategic footwork being overlooked here as expected when "boxing 'perts" storm rd by rd. He's always balanced in place for his shots that are always better than the incoming.

Anyway, Ice definitely one of the most confident, easy going of boxers who endure boxing forums. A sparring dispute broke out on AOL when a powerlifter exploded, driving early AM from Jersey to Hartford, roughly equivalent to 100 miles of downtown traffic to tear Ice a new one. He storms the gym frothing, ready to start pounding, and the guys sorta look at him like "What?". Ice is out of town with his kids for a tourney, so the poor guy has a sorta coitus interruptus meltdown and disappeared.

Gained much respect for Roy when he and Ice were playing pool near Roy's rural headquarters for stakes. One of the good ol' boys explodes. shattering his stick with the jagged end ready for the brawl after losing another wad. Roy says, "OK," puts his stick down, and they walk out the place. No fuss, no muss and no ego means they ready tomorrow for another training spar :TU:

Re: Thus Spake The Iceman

Posted: 30 Jan 2023, 21:48
by margaret thatcher
agree, so much excitement about yarde's right hand in the fifth, but bert's legs never budged and he ended the round by pounding yarde in the corner with about 10 unanswered shots, the atmosphere was such that anything yarde did got a cheer and treated about 3x more significant than it was

i never had any doubt bert was in control and on his way to a win, always looked composed and in control of himself