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Primadonna Kool

11-09-2008, 05:11 PM

Now it is well documented that Bernard Hopkins was a tough guy in jail, and took no crap. But does anybody know stories of Bernard Hopkins time in jail..in detail. I red one article..i don't know if it was a fake..but it was stating that Bernard Hopkins nick name was called soapy and he would abuse other inmates.

When Mike Tyson came out of jail he weighed 190+ pounds, this was because all he used to eat.......... was tinned tuna, because he had a fear of someone contaminating his food. He also trained relentlessly........................

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janitor

11-09-2008, 05:15 PM

I could tell you some stories about Jack Johnsons time in jail.

younghypnotiq

11-09-2008, 05:19 PM

mitch green went to jail as did jumbo cummings

janitor

11-09-2008, 05:21 PM

When Mike Tyson came out of jail he weighed 190+ pounds, this was because all he used to eat.......... was tinned tuna, because he had a fear of someone contaminating his food. He also trained relentlessly........................

You mean he was just a pumped up cruiserweight?

Primadonna Kool

11-09-2008, 05:33 PM

You mean he was just a pumped up cruiserweight?

Have you got a problem..?

MRBILL

11-09-2008, 05:34 PM

mitch green went to jail as did jumbo cummings

"Green and Cummings" belong locked-up...:yep

MRBILL

11-09-2008, 05:38 PM

META5

11-09-2008, 05:46 PM

:rofl @ "soapy" - that nickname creates an even worse impression, in context of the silly sadomasochistic executioner garb he used to wear.

Janitor, get with the telling ...

META5

11-09-2008, 05:50 PM

While in jail, Stonehands89 successfully built and launched the soviet space station Mir out of supplies from the lunch room.

Stonehands89 is McGuyver?

Arka

11-09-2008, 06:44 PM

I could tell you some stories about Jack Johnsons time in jail.

Go on.... :D

Russell

11-09-2008, 06:48 PM

I could tell you some stories about Jack Johnsons time in jail.

Is this where we beg? :|

heehoo

11-09-2008, 07:06 PM

I could tell you some stories about Jack Johnsons time in jail.

Please do. This I want to hear.

MrMagic

11-09-2008, 09:00 PM

From his reaction to "She said she hit you, screamed and cried but nothing worked" I can tell she was a dirty gold digger.:yep

SteveO

11-09-2008, 09:33 PM

Rydell Booker

MRBILL

11-10-2008, 02:05 AM

Tony Ayala? Another pug who belongs in the cooler for life....

young griffo

11-10-2008, 03:07 AM

Rubin Carter was apparently a real hard arse when he first went to jail for the triple murder,standing over other inmates and whatnot.He got his comeuppance when some other lifer called his bluff and belted Carter,blinding him in one eye.

This was in the days before Carter became a celebrity "cause celebre" and was just another hardened criminal.

Russell

11-10-2008, 03:24 AM

Vantage_West

11-10-2008, 05:14 AM

Michael "freddom, he has" Nunn

after his career went sour and he was fighting in the old heavyweight limit of +190lbs. he bought 2 pounds of cocaine form an undercover police officer

there is a good article on him if you search michael nunn in to google. it was an interview behind bars *cough*slick rick*cough* . but very good articel personally. my fav part.

his personal life was getting out of control. In February 1993, he was arrested in Orion, Ill after police found two containers of beer and a 9-millimeter handgun in his car. He was involved in drugs, and things seemly got worse when Omaha police issued a warrant after he allegedly harassed a woman by phone. When police came to his sister's Joanna's, home, they found the 6' 2" fighter hiding in her clothes dryer.

stonerose

11-10-2008, 05:24 AM

how long has nunn got left to serve?

DamonD

11-10-2008, 05:36 AM

Clifford Etienne, Michael Dokes, Riddick Bowe and Tommy Morrison also spring to mind.

Vantage_West

11-10-2008, 05:38 AM

how long has nunn got left to serve?20+ or 30+

but it seems he has been a good boy in prison and hasnt really caused any major offences out of prison except the 1 kilo of cocaine..which you could say in all fairness was for himself :roll: but that would be one heck of a party tho.....

wbc are trying to appeal and vouch for him for his help to the community.

he might get out in 3 maybe 20 i dunno how the american prison judgment works.

sitiyzal

11-10-2008, 06:36 AM

20+ or 30+

but it seems he has been a good boy in prison and hasnt really caused any major offences out of prison except the 1 kilo of cocaine..which you could say in all fairness was for himself :roll: but that would be one heck of a party tho.....

wbc are trying to appeal and vouch for him for his help to the community.

he might get out in 3 maybe 20 i dunno how the american prison judgment works.

call me naive but wasn't Nunn's sentence a little harsh?

Vantage_West

11-10-2008, 06:48 AM

call me naive but wasn't Nunn's sentence a little harsh?for holding cocaine it's about 4 years or so even a warning if it was a small amount.
but it seemed that micheal was sentenced under "intent to sell"....thats a BIG sentence. personally i find that stupidly harsh. i totally agree that a dealer should get 3 times as much time for his involvement instead of a user or addict. but you coudl be leanient on nunn.especially as mike was messing with drugs alot. he might sell a bit of it but it was clear he was going use some for himself.

also there is alot of agent provocateur about it. buying dope off a undercover police officer is a bit shady form the polices poitn of view.

my cousin works in the police as a technical detective or tech-dect. he and his team leave cars with cameras and bugs and chemical/invisable paint. in certain areas. there is about 100 cars in hammersmith alone .
anyways point is that he has to go to certain lengths to not make th car too attractive. I.E. satnav telly in the back. 40 pounds of weed in the back.

and to me this a is clear agent provocateur.

la-califa

11-10-2008, 03:15 PM

"Green and Cummings" belong locked-up...:yep For impersonating prizefighters!! Too bad they didn't fight in the forties, Could have joined the "Bum of the Month" Club for sure!

istmeno

11-10-2008, 03:40 PM

I think James Scott got paroled after 35 years in the cooler up in Jersey..... Scott did COMMIT a MURDER of a dope dealer in about 1975.... BUT! Scott was jailed on other charges earlier on for odd to petty crap...... Peace....

MR.BILL:shock:damn good fighter got screwed out of his title shot because the wba was afraid of having their title behind bars

papke26

11-10-2008, 05:21 PM

I met garry delaney the former british light heavy champ in belmarsh!

I was alot bigger than him, which surprised me as he fought at heavyweight at the end of his career. He was a real tough guy though, but he respected me as he knew i had fought to a good level as an amatuer. He wasn't particularly athlectic looking, but he had a real tough looking boxers face- and you could clearly see he had been in a few wars.

janitor

11-10-2008, 05:23 PM

Please do. This I want to hear.

When Jack Johnson first entered prison the predominantlky white inmates were all screaming that they were going to kill him in unison. Johnson offered one of the wardens $ 10 000 to open one of the cells so that he could make an example of the ocupant.

Despite his initial baptism of fire Johnson set about charming his jailers and was soon moved into more luxurious acomodation and given various privelages. He often dined with the prison govenor. Johnson even worked as a minder for the prison officers protecting them when they were moving violent ofenders.

While Johnson was encarcerated he designed an automobile repair wrench and a car theft prevention device both of which he was granted patents for after his release.

Thread Stealer

11-11-2008, 03:12 AM

I think James Scott got paroled after 35 years in the cooler up in Jersey..... Scott did COMMIT a MURDER of a dope dealer in about 1975.... BUT! Scott was jailed on other charges earlier on for odd to petty crap...... Peace....

MR.BILL:shock:

I remember reading that James Scott went to prison for robbery, but that crime got upgraded to murder.

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"I had it made," he says, "a title shot for $100,000. My dream had come true. A press conference was set up for a Thursday and we were going to announce the fight. On Wednesday the police picked me up."

A few nights earlier, Scott's car had been seen in the vicinity of a murder and robbery. When the Newark police checked the car they found bloodstains and a bullet hole. Scott said he had loaned the car to a friend. Held at first as a material witness, Scott was later charged with the robbery, which had netted $238. Found guilty, in March 1976 he was sentenced to 30 to 40 years. He was transferred to Rahway on May 27, 1977 as inmate No. 57735. He has been in training ever since. "Like a Spartan," says Dickens, who is now at Rahway, too, "and he sure wasn't out nights fooling around."

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Scott built up an 18-1-1 record while serving time for armed robbery (a life sentence for murder was added later) at Rahway State Prison in Trenton, N.J.

Thread Stealer

11-11-2008, 03:19 AM

Esteban Dejesus excelled on the prison's baseball team when he was in prison for murdering a teenager in a dispute in traffic that may have been drug-related.

Bernard Hopkins went back to boxing while in prison for robbery, after quitting the sport early on after a 95-4 record.

Wilfredo Gomez did some time in Venezuela for drug charges.

Diego Corrales did 14 months in prison from 2001-02 for beating up his pregnant wife.

Dwight Qawi learned to box while serving a sentence for robbery in Rahway prison, the same prison James Scott was locked up in. Qawi later beat Scott by decision in Rahway.

Bigcat

11-11-2008, 04:20 PM

One heavyweight who started his career on Scotts undercards in Rahway and ended up fighting to a high level against Riddick Bowe, Tommy Morrison and Tim Witherspoon was BIG Art Tucker.. Art was released around 1987 and lost a long unbeaten run of Ko wins to a guy from Gary Indiana called Kimmuel Odum.. Bruce Seldon was in Jail... Dannell Nicholson was also, Don Curry did time for Drug Offences too.. Nate Jones was a product a jail boxing project.. Pinklon came from time served in prison i also beleive... we can't miss out Sonny Liston either...