John Scully (MW,SMW,LHW) (Rated here as a Middleweight)
38(21)-11-0
Hometown - South Windsor, Connecticut
Trainer - Russ Anber
Manager - Ray Turner
John Scully had two distinct phases to his career. Phase one consisted of 22 fights exclusively within the middleweight division. Scully amassed a record of 20(15)-2-0 as an exclusive middleweight and claimed the New England Middleweight title along the way.
Phase two saw Scully go 18(6)-9-0 as he stepped up in both weight and competition. During this period, Scully fought as both a super middleweight and a light heavyweight. His three best bouts were likely the two distance fights that he had with Ernest Mateen and one with Micheal Nunn * for the WBO Super Middleweight Title. Unfortunately, all three efforts were losses with Scully collecting one more decision win against Cleveland Nelson shortly after the second Mateen fight before he called it quits.
Scully resides in the Hartford, CT area today and acts as trainer to fellow Hartford boxer and Heavyweight Lawrence Clay-Bey
* I was fortunate enough to see Scully-Nunn at Foxwoods in '95. Nunn clearly was the superior fighter that night but our hometown boy made us proud going 12 rounds and never backing down. I don't have my score cards from that fight but I do remember having Nunn by a smaller margin as the winner. I think I called two rounds even that everyone else on the planet gave to Nunn.
That's what hometown advantages are all about.