Former National Champ Sammy Vega On The Card
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Lawrence B. Zarbo, Executive Director
Manchester Police Activities League
239 East Middle Turnpike
PO Box 191
Manchester, CT. 06045-0191
860.645.5525
TWO LOCAL BOXERS TO COMPETE ON FRIDAY FOR GOLDEN GLOVES CHAMPIONSHIPS
On Friday night at Maneeley's Banquet Hall in South Windsor the Johnny Duke Western New England Golden Gloves tournament will conclude its third and final week with a championship night of amateur boxing. Windsor-trainer "Iceman" John Scully will have two of his boxers entered into the finals in their respective weight divisions.
Featured on the show will be former National Junior Olympic and National Silver Gloves champion Sammy Vega of Hartford who will box Meriden's Julito Aquino, the defending two-time champion of this tournament, for the 125 pound crown. This bout will be the tie-breaking "rubber match" between the two. As one of the most decorated amateur boxers in state history Vega has won Silver Glove, Junior Olympic, AAU, PAL, Ohio State Fair titles on local, regional and national levels. The one significant title that has eluded him for his entire career that began in 1993 has been a Golden Gloves title. His trainer Scully won four local and three regional Golden Gloves title back in the 1980's while stablemates and sparring partners such as current USBA 122 pound champion Mike Oliver and former U.S. Armed Forces champion Orlando Cordova have all won Golden Gloves titles in previous years and Vega would like to add his name to the list.
Vega is currently a law clerk at Hartford Attorney Jeffrey Dressler's office and also heads up Dressler's highly acclaimed "Mega-Education Program, a program that attempts to give local student incentive to stay in school and further their education.
In last years 125 pound final Vega was disqualified in the third and final round against Aquino in a fight Vega was ahead on all the scorecards in after dropping his mouthpiece, albeit by accident, for the third time. Under amateur boxing rules a boxer is disqualified if he loses his mouthpiece more than two times in a match.
In the second bout between the states two best amateur featherweights, held one month ago in the Connecticut state championship finals, Vega recorded a very impressive victory with a performance that earned him the "Outstanding Boxer Award" for the night.
This weekends Vega-Aquino match will not only decide who the WNEGG champion is but it will also decide the teams representative at the annual New England Golden Gloves tournament of Champions in Lowell next month. Winners of the New England tournament advance to the National tournament. This years national event ill take place in Chattanooga, Tennessee in April.
Another Scully-trained boxer, Adam Carra of Enfield, will box in the 165 novice division final on Friday (novice is a boxer with under ten bouts worth of previous experience) against Jahairy Ramos of the Waterbury P.A.L. In Carra's only previous bout he won the state novice title at 165 pounds last month.
Vega and Carra are trained by former world light heavyweight title challenger Scully at the L.A. Boxing Gym in Glastonbury.
www.IcemanJohnScully.com
Quote: The wait in the dressing room before a professional boxing match -that last hour- could be enough to strip a man that never boxed before of whatever pride, desire and heart he THOUGHT he had - Iceman John Scully, April 2002
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