I was talking to my uncle the other day who is a die hard boxing fan, because of him i love boxing,anyways we were just chatting about up and comming fights and he told me he use to go to Rahway prison here in jersey, to watch fights live all the time. he said they use to sell tickets and that hes seen don king in the crowd before as well as a list of boxers and famous people, i never knew they use to do this, anyone ever been to one?
Verbal bout with a cell-block champ From the other side of the Atlantic last week came a cutting that stirred memories of one of the strangest days of my working life. It was a brief news item that told how James Scott, a former contender for the light-heavyweight championship of the world, had been released from prison at the end of a 28-year stretch and “just one month after turning 57”. The age was dubious. Scott already had the habit of subtracting a couple of years when I met him in September 1981. That he had other less harmless foibles was indicated by the location of our specially negotiated rendezvous, which was in the depths of Rahway State Prison, one of New Jersey’s maximum security penitentiaries and home, as I observed at the time, to men mean enough to make Bad, Bad Leroy Brown yell for his mammy. Scott was serving a life sentence for a first-degree murder alleged to have been committed to cover up an armed robbery and, just in case that didn’t give him enough cell-block cred, he had made himself star performer of an extraordinary boxing programme operated at Rahway. The scheme involved eight professionals and about 40 amateurs, all of whom fought regularly inside the penitentiary against opponents from outside. Scott had a career total of 22 fights (19 wins, two defeats) and exactly half of them were in Rahway, often with famous names in the other corner. He beat Eddie Mustafa Muhammad and Yaqui Lopez before his hopes of a title shot petered out with losses to Jerry Martin and Dwight Qawi. Qawi, who had also served in Rahway, said he recalled the other convict “walking around like he had a Superman cape on his back”. My photographer colleague, Michael Brennan, and I found Scott rather less sociable than Superman. “Don’t write the conventional article,” he told me. “You got to put some exciting adverbs in there. Tell them about that English guy John Gully.” Gully was a Bristol man who emerged from debtors’ prison at the beginning of the 19th century to become heavyweight champion of England and an MP. James Scott hasn’t done quite as well but anybody who wants to taunt him about the difference shouldn’t expect help from me. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/article516615.ece
i heard that the Black Rhino Mr. Clifford Etienne is the current Prison Cell Champ PCC Belt - previously held by Mike Tyson until he lost his mojo to Jo El Scott. Who necks?!? Who nex?!
pr really had a prison card? wow, must of been some future atgs there fighting that well never no, my uncle mentioned yaqui lopez thats crazy
