Byline: Joe Layden - Executive Sports Editor
This is about loyalty.
It's about friendship and trust. It's about ego. And, of course, it's about money. In boxing, it's always about money.
Mainly, though, it's about loyalty.
Thursday was supposed to be a big day for Joel Scott. He was supposed to be in Erie, Pa., fighting as a professional for the second time. Instead, one of the most promising young heavyweights in the world was back on the fifth floor of an old brick schoolhouse in Arbor Hill. Back in the St. Joseph's Community Center gym, where it's always too hot or too cold, and where there are no locker rooms and no showers. He sparred a few rounds, worked on the heavy bag for a while, then headed out the door …
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