Rob I know I said only a piece about press conference and weigh-in Monday, but Bones Adams came in

Rob I know I said only a piece about press conference and weigh-in Monday, but Bones Adams came in Sunday to the Holiday Inn Metroplex along with his people and some Top Rank people and I saw George Chung later at the ring girl contest. so since very little has been done on Adams I thought I would combine a story on him with Chung's comment on this promotion and a short pop on the ring contest winners....
Youngstown With the July 1st Cafaro Field fight card less than 48 hours away some of the participants came to the area Sunday checking in at the Holiday Inn Metroplex in Liberty. An early arrival was Mitch Hampp the site coordinator for Top Rank who went to Cafaro Field to have a look at the fight site and with optimism looked forward to a good weather night Tuesday. Among the boxing participants in early was Clarence Bones Adams and his camp..
Adams was elated over the knowledge that Ray & quot;Boom Boom & quot; Mancini would be in for the fight card saying & quot;Ray is a friend of mine and when I am in the Los Angeles area I visit him. & quot; Later at Antonio's in Austintown where Mancini was a judge for the ring girl contest for Tuesday's fights he said & quot;Bones Adams has been a friend of mine for two years and it is good that I can watch him and Kelly Pavlik fight on the same card. & quot; This will be the fourth time that Adams and Pavlik will be on a same fight card.
& quot;I have never been in Youngstown, but I feel I know everything about it because of Kelly & quot; said Adams & quot;And I sure hope he can get the people out Tuesday, because that's why I am here. & quot; Nationally, Adams in a featherweight 10 rounder with Manuel Sepeda, is actually the main event with ESPN plugging him in their fight promos, but he realizes that the reason there is a fight card here is because of Pavlik and this is a Top Rank test of his popularity. Adams from Henderson, Kentucky which is in the western part of the state touching the Indiana and Illinois borders actually began boxing at the age of five.
& quot;My father opened a gym for me and my older brother Fred and in a short time there were 30 to 40 other fighters in the gym & quot; said Adams. He began fighting AAU bouts and then USAABF fights and from the ages of 10 to 15 he amassed national titles such as Junior Olympic and Silver Glove crowns that became too numerous for an accurate count. With a stretch of the truth on his age and his father Clarence Sr. his manager, Bones turned pro when he was 15 years old after an amazing 176-4 record as an amateur. He banged around and had 26 straight wins and in the winter of 2000 he won a unanimous decision over Nestor Garza to win the World Boxing Association super bantamweight championship.
A little known fact brought to light Sunday is that Adams is only one of three boxing world champions from the state of Kentucky. The other two are both from Louisville and are Greg Page and another heavyweight Cassius Clay or better known as Muhammad Ali. Adams was stripped of his title when he moved up to fight Paulie Ayala for the vacant junior featherweight crown and lost to Ayala by way of a controversial decision and in the second fight, as Don House the man who trains him now says, & quot;Bones didn't have his head in the second Ayala fight. & quot; House is a 41 year old native of Chicago who lived in Grand Rapids, Michigan and has been either a fighter or a trainer more than three decades of his life.
He is part of the Las Vegas boxing community and the & quot;City that never sleeps & quot; has been a home to Adams for the past three years. Now House is on board to step up Adams' career and has been working with him in his training at the Prince Ranch in Las Vegas. Cameron Dunkin and James Prince are the co-managers of Adams as he goes against Manuel Sepeda with a 15-6-2 record from Austin, Texas in a featherweight 10 rounder Tuesday night. Bones is 41-6-3 with 19 knockouts and in boxing circles he is rated among the top ten & quot;Big Little Men & quot; in the world. A reminder from the Adams camp about Sepeda is that three of his losses were to world champions.
House says & quot;Sepeda is a tough kid out of Texas and I haven't seen anything we have to be concerned about. & quot; Then without hesitation Adams replied & quot;I feel we do have to be concerned because Sepeda has been in the ring with some of the best around and this kid can hit. I'm concerned every time I step in the ring because there are too many times that one punch can make a difference in a fight. & quot; Bones Adams is 28 years old, but five days after the Tuesday night bout he will be 29 and so his thoughts are about getting back to a world championship fight, which means, in no way is he taking Manuel Sepeda lightly.
Top Rank top echelon people Bruce Trampler and Lee Samuels went from Puerto Rico back to Las Vegas yesterday and they will be here for the press conference and weigh-ins Monday. Co-promoter George Chung arrived Sunday with an optimistic outlook for the July 1st card at Cafaro Field saying & quot;We are anticipating these fights to reestablish the great tradition of boxing in Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley and let the entire Nation see both the talent and fan support here. & quot; Those words were spoken at Antonio's in Austintown Sunday night where Chung and Ray Mancini were among the judges for a ring girl contest that had quite a large crowd there.
The words were spoken after Kelly Pavlik had posed for a photograph with Mancini, Harry Arroyo, Greg Richardson and Jeff Lampkin all former world boxing champions from Youngstown, so Chung's use of the word tradition was very proper. Eleven young ladies were the ring girl contestants and six of them; Anastasia Budrevich from the Westside of Youngstown, Jessica Lukac from Boardman, Jamie Lemke from Austintown, Betsy Theodore from Leetonia, Stacy Dworok from Struthers and Cindy Tochtenhagen from Liberty were cash prize winners. At the end of the contest Chung announced that since the voting was so close all 11 of the contestants would be working at Tuesday night's fights.