This content is protected This content is protected Apologies if this had been posted (didn't see it). For those who don't know, James Scott was a LHW former contender in the 70's who used to have his fights broadcast from Rahway State Prison in New Jersey, including a fight with Eddie Gregory (aka Eddie Mustafa Muhammad). Great Read.
I remember when Scott fought Braxton. Scott was considered to be a "monster' and was beating the hell out of people since all he had to do was train 24/7. Braxton went into Rahway and beat the "monster". I knew right then that Mathew Saad Mohammed was going to catch hell from Braxton when they fought.
The current boxing news editor tris dixon, did articles on former american fighters and he was one off them back in 2000 issues of boxing news!!
The Superman who used to do thousands of push ups in his cell.... Jerry The Bull Martin a Philly fighter starched him. Everyone used to be very intimidated of him until he met his match in Martin. Martin yawned before the introduction and damn he looked like a Hippo yawning. Went right after Scott and he was just overwhelmed!!!! Scott had a good story though....my family has a lot of these old Boxing Magazines and those fighters were something else!!!
Scott manhandled Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, who looked completely intimidated. Then Jerry Martin gave Scott a beating. And of course Mustafa brutalized Martin. Its one of my favorite 'Fighter A beats Fighter B, Fighter B beats Fighter C, who beats Fighter A' scenarios, because each one of the fights was so decisive, so brutal. The series demonstrated the strength and shortcomings of each fighter's style.
Scott would have gotten a title shot had he not been incarcerated: beat No. 1-ranked Eddie Mustafa Muhammad (I think he was still 'Gregory' at the tie), beat No. 1-ranked Yaqui Lopez, as well as Richie Kates and some others. The Martin fight was closer than most remember -- New Jersey was still on the rounds system of scoring at that time so the two knockdown rounds counted no more than any others (instead of the customary 10-8 or one of them might have been a 10-7 on the 10-point must) and it was 6-4 on two of the cards. I think that loss took a lot of starch out of Scott. Qawi IMO faced a deflated fighter, but still a great win. And of course Dwight wasn't intimidated: he served his own time in Rahway previously. He learned to box in the same prison boxing program as Scott and I would assume had sparred many rounds with him.
