(EXTENDED VERSION) Roy Jones-John Scully Sparring @ Sugar Ray's Gym, 1988 

You taught him well Scully 👍 Was that before or after he went to the Olympics & won the Val Barker trophy that year ?

@@SPIDERM0OSE This was two months before the Olympics

@@IceJohnScully Good lad Scully, you done a great job getting him ready. I was 14 watching that Olympics in Ireland. Roy blew my mind the way he handled Franeck from Czechoslovakia, it was an absolute boxing lesson vs a European Champ & then Richie Woodhall the British Champ. Before that I had never seen anyone use a lead hook like a jab & the way he stepped it up 2 gears when Woodhall stepped it up a gear all but killed my ambitions of ever being good enough to compete at that level & my coach had boxed at the Olympics. Ive no doubt it was the sparring he got with pros & mingling with the likes of Ray Leonard that brought him to that level for the games. You were all robbed in that final, not just Roy.

@@SPIDERM0OSE Yeah I remember watching him get robbed on television. Worst robbery I’ve ever seen amateur or pro

@@IceJohnScully It was absolutely shocking.

Thanks, my man 😁👍🥊

Thanks KEV!!

Keith Thurmans Ben Getty ?

@@SPIDERM0OSE Yesssir one and the same

@@scottgetty5547 🥊

Thank you, my man, I appreciate it. I grew up right next to Hartford so when I started boxing in the early 80s, Marlon Starling was our big star and it was natural that I ambulated his style to a degree. His defense was MAGNIFICENT

@@IceJohnScully I agree, Marlon starling had great upper body movement to go with his high guard. Great defense.

@@Lacuadraboxeo. and BRILLIANT counter punching

Roy never had a problem with guys pressing him. Long south paw counter punchers posed a problem like Griffin and Eric Harding.. but Roy figured them out. But guys pressing Roy in his prime - which was about 15 years straight - that would be suicide.

Roy never used his jab in fights. His leaping left hook was his jab. Only fight I've ever saw him use a consistent jab, was against Vinny Pazienza

Truly HONORED, my man, thank you very much! 🥊🥊🥊

Best days of my life 😁😁😁🥊🥊🥊 where are you from Clem?

Bayonne. Chuck Wepner, Nino Gonzalez. Buffano’s Gym in Jersey City. Liston trained there for some fights. Buddy McGirt trained fighters there. My HS classmate was a 2nd middle trained by Buddy. Gatti and Antifermo lived in Bayonne too. Later in the ‘90s.

I see from the below your are a boxing historian. My next-door neighbor was Tommy Roman, who beat Fritzie Zivic. Tommy and his bro Carmen trained Johnny DiGilio whose career was put on the decline by a loss to Cisco Andrade. Johnny won the NY GG as a welter. How could I leave out Ernie Durando. A terrific middle. His son married my best friend’s sister.

@@clemfarley7257 I see you really are a Boxing maniac, huh? 🥊🥊🥊😁 That’s cool. You seem to have a lot of knowledge!

we were both in the 160’s at this time

All is great my man. Thank you for checking in!

Thank you, my man. It was REALLY great to be in the ring with a LEGIT GOAT!

@@IceJohnScully your welcome 🙏. Just one question you've probably been asked so many times but was he that quick in the ring?

@@originalnutzie4409 he was quick and fast and very very smart. He was very very aware at all times of every situation we were in. Very very focused.

@@originalnutzie4409 ABSOLUTELY he was

Yessir…GOOD CATCH

This video is top tier,mate! 🍻

@@WhoIsDanteFresh thank you, my man!!

Yup, good catch!!

@@IceJohnScully thanks champ🙌🏽

@@IceJohnScullyI got a question, when sparring Roy Jones just how fast were his hands really. Like I know on camera they seemed really fast but I suspect in real life they must be much faster than on camera, like how would you describe his speed. Like you just blink and you get hit? I’ve boxed before and I know how fast a punch is in person compared to on camera, when I see myself boxing I think like damn my punches are slow and my opponent throws slow punches when seen on camera even though in actuality punches look much faster than on camera. So that begs the question is since Roy Jones so fast on camera, how would you describe his speed in person? Is it like watching a rock being thrown at you at 45 MPH, like an invisible ball just hit you? Just how fast is Roy’s hand speed?

@@GorenGuang sometimes when he would let four or five go at one time they were all hard and fast at the same time so you would just kind of have to let the storm pass. It was hard to pull the trigger and punch with him at the same time although at the end of the video here, I was able to do it, andit was like being in a firefight

@@IceJohnScully Mhmm, that is very difficult to counter, I can see why he was so dominant. Can you give me like an analogy or like a comparative example of how fast. Like, is it like a bullet, did it look like his fists were teleporting, fists faster than the blink of an eye? Like give me an analogy or like a simile to compare his fists to. In camera his punches make me think his hands were organic, at one point in time I legitimately thought he had bionically augmented hands, like literally I thought he had mechanically implanted robotic metal in his arms. In his prime his hand speed made me question the reality of what is humanly physically possible to be able to punch that fast, like I would blink sometimes in front of the TV and I’d see his opponent get stumbled back and his hands were in the same place. And that’s on TV, anyone knows that fists look faster in person than on TV, so if he punches that fast like his hands were so blurry when he threw them, it must much more overwhelmingly fast in real life, so please, give me like an analogy or simile of his fast hands.

SCULLY 🥊🥊🥊

havent had an actual street fight since I was 14.

@@IceJohnScully thx for replying, love your channel. I was just curious seems their are so many assholes that will hear someone boxes or does mma and challenge them, I figured most boxers are careful and probably just walk away for obvious reasons. I can’t imagine the damage someone like you could do to some average joe. Thanks for all these great uploads.

@@nickcaesar7650 thank you my man. I appreciate you checking in. Yeah I don't really see the point of fighting unless you are protecting your family. Fighting over stupidity is ignorant. Guys fight in a bar because they want to be troublemakers or whatever. Just stupidity. I don't want to hurt anybody. And I don't want to get hurt. It's as simple as that

@@IceJohnScully , glad to hear another boxer with that perspective. Getting into amateur boxing (mid 1970s-early 80s) actually changed my perspective on fighting and I avoided street fights and unnecessary conflict whenever possible.

John was an Animal 🥊

Crazy how far athleticism can bring you, eh?

No he was not 15 or 16 here…this was one month before Roy left for the Olympics where he got ROBBED of good. I’m only a few months older than him.

@@IceJohnScully😂😂everybody is a know it all nowadays huh

@@vince11harris yeah, dude was WAY off 😁😁😁

NO 😀

NO 😀

NO 😀

@@IceJohnScully So who is it ? 😂 He does resemble Kennedy cause he always had that `older` look about him. I do remember he was also an olympic gold medalist that same year.

@@amck72 Just a guy helping out in the gym. Kennedy definitely wasn’t there

Is that good????

​@@IceJohnScully so good man

+skotiskiller THANKS my man... his left hooks to the body were equally beautiful LOL

IceJohnScully I liked your uppercuts to the body more.Good job sir and greetings from Greece.

+skotiskiller I wont argue with that :) :) :)

Check olimpics fight

HONORED by ur words, Manos3790, THANK U! You read Boxing News? I had a piece about Tyson in this weeks edition!

IceJohnScully Just finished the Tyson article and found it staggeringly, informative. I thought I was fairly privy to his life and career? How wrong I am. I've viewed your fight against the utterly brilliant, Michael Nunn, in which you gave an astounding account of yourself. Bravo! Do you think that, Nunn would've been a huge threat to Jones Jr, in the late 90's? I did. Yes, I've been reading Boxing news since I was 16. Keep up the great reports, they're a compelling read. Much respect for you, sir 🤗👍

Manos...yeah, Nunn had THE style to give anyone trouble...BIG trouble...I'm acctually still in touch with him very regularly...and Im glad u liked my Tyson article!! :)

@@manos3790 I’m glad u enjoyed the Tyson piece, as well. THANK YOU

Thank u, my man...you always have to be ready when in the ring with THIS man, RJ!

Why is he even fighting now - only reason is that he does not know anything else .. and his whole identity is wrapped up in - I am a boxer . Sad man … he was literally untouchable. If it was not for that one punch KO … we would never have known what type to chin he had . Like a Cassius clay all through his career

Brian is a very very good coach, you are in good hands. We did a lot of traveling together with our teams back in the day.

IceJohnScully thanks that’s very good to know I’ve also been sparring with Chad Dawson kid too for the last couple of weeks and Brian told us about this Turn you guys would try against the ropes to pivot out idk if I’m explaining it correctly I know Tramaine Williams does it pretty good

@@adnelsantana7785 yessir, lots of great moves to learn and master for you in the future...Ill assume I see you with Brian at one of the next amateur shows....look me up!

I would say that Ice knew he HAD to keep his foot on the gas against Roy.

Sparring is better sometimes LOL...feel more relaxed, able to think better sometimes...to me the best boxing Ive seen has come in GYMS

@ adam Thanks my man, Im definitely lucky to have it. Roy and I sparred several times in that camp but this is the only one that was filmed!!

Thank you, Adam C!

How would you describe his style

@@paulcris107 Like trying to navigate the matrix ha ha

@@IceJohnScully oh wow why would you describe it as trying to find the matrix ? and you done very well against him

@@paulcris107 Because I had to step my game up pretty much as high as it go to do as well as I did…he was a special fighter with a unique unique difficult style. You had to be on your game or you were done for

@@IceJohnScully that’s sick one more question what were his best attribute accept from speed ofc

Ive always said that IMO his left hook to the body was his best punch

Sugar Ray Robinson is a master. None of these fighters could touch him.

​@@Artist21stPrime Roy could touch Robinson.

​@cappy2008 prime Jones jr wins against Robinson.

@@Rodageado Agreed.

@@theblkwolverine1570 👍

Yessir, thats him. The G-Man himself.

He was daring camp with us but he couldn't Spar because he had an injured rib

@@IceJohnScully did u ever spar him???? Mann be honest!! Lol if u did, how hard do he punch?

@@javantedavis1999 I asked if he was going to be sparring but he said his jaw was still sore from the fight with Roy about one month earlier at the Nationals and he couldn't spar

Voice thing got me..I meant to say THERE IN CAMP WITH US

Christian T Thank u, my man!!

Kickz I never sparred Bomani but we were amateurs together and I know him well...saw him in Oakland in 2012...

+Kickz ...Bomani was the man! Good guy...I saw him a couple years ago in Oakland...he and i never fought, he moved up to 178 while I was always at 165...

No, hes at the very end if the tape

Roy punched harder....Michael was very smooth but not a puncher. I used to spar James...I was with him in June, its on youtube...I introduced him to his former opponent Reggie Johnson, u should check it out!!! AND Yes, thats Gerald talking to Ray at the end of the video.

IceJohnScully dudeee its really a honor for you to reply mann!! I have soo many questions for u!! James is my favorite fighter of all time!!! I cant believe u sparred james toney too!!!!! Did james punch harder than roy?? And i cant believe roy punch harder then nun! U fought nun when he was big and jones has to be ATLEAST 150 on this video! And i am abouts to look up that video now! And 1 more question! DID U SPAR THE HARDEST PUNCHER IN MIDDLE WEIGHT HISTORY GERALD MCCLELEAN????

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cz_qAfjails.html ...this past June...

Pleasure to meet u as well, my man! I sparred James after he beat Barkley in 1993...RJ was the sharper puncher of the two but JT was very very accurate and solid, too! Nunn threw a lot, he really let his hands go...he scored a lot of KO's too but I always saw them as more of "timing" KO's and wearing guys down with that crazy volume of punches. But in terms of KO power, I didnt feel it from him. Byt, keep in mind, I was in GREAT shape for that fight and I was really motivated so that helped cushion blows, too, I am sure.

Personally I used to spar a lot...I was the type, I would spar every day if I could...but really, I probably did a good 3 days a week on average

IceJohnScully Thanks champ. I was wondering because my coach has the guys at the gym sparring almost every day, either 4 or 5 days a week and someone told me they thought that was too much so I wanted to hear your thoughts.

@JORDAN the thing is this...EVERYONE shouldn't spar that much...some guys get burnt out quicker than others...they begin to drag and start doing these wrong because they dont have full muscle strength, etc...on average, I would say thats' a bit much...sparring is GREAT...sparring a lot is great...but sparring too much could very well end up having the opposite affect on a body and mind...

+Jordan McMurray that's alright to me. the more they spar the more they learn. i used to spar almost everyday at the gym if i wanted to. my old gym spar twice a week

fightmanadvanced Roy and Gerald had just fought approximately 6 weeks earlir

IceJohnScully

aw ok so this was before the olympics...ok

Yes, this was right before the olympics pretty much..about 9 weeks ahead...

fightmanadvanced ...Roy and McClellan had fought earlier that year...

Roy was never a welter...but if he was Im sure what he brought to the table would be effective

Yup, good eyes, A.Z.

1. Sometimes u have to plan for later and let a guy use his legs up, man...2. at the end he was on the ropes much more...3. Sometimes with guys like ROY JONES JR. you need them to tire their legs out before u go rushing into them with their full leg and snap power intact

I was in great shape...but let me tell you, Roy hit HARD to teh body

your stile is froom english school right? the good old stile? im a amateur boxer with a record of 3w-0L. im a southpaw and im studing all those boxing schools and diferent stiles (roy, unortodoxes) so what did you find more impressive about this roy jones fight?

They were strong shots...I always felt his left hooks to the body were his strongest shots...

Roy was very patient...very strategic and his power was STRONG

Roy was sharp...great reaction time...great body puncher, especially with the left hook downstairs