Meet this week’s “Special Person of the Week:Norman “Stoney”Stone!
Born and raised in Somerville, he went into the Army in 1968 and then on to Vietnam in 1969.
After returning stateside, Norman worked as an ambulance driver for Professional Ambulance and then for the M.B.T.A where he worked for many years.
Norman ultimately retired from the M.B.T.A to take on the full time task train an unknown 16 year old named John Ruiz, whom he brought through the ranks to become the first latino heavyweight world champion!
Stoney is a you-tube sensation whom you can find daily at the Somerville Boxing Club where he remains president, and continues to mentor kids and donates countless hours there.
He now resides in Wilmington, but his heart is, and always will be in Somerville!
Stony has always been and still is on the front lines from many charities and worthy causes here in Somerville.
Our hats are off to his true Somerville spirit!
We here at the Somerville News Weekly salute you for everything that you do to make Somerville a better place.
Congratulations!
Stoney sounds like the real deal — stepping away from a steady MBTA job to train a teenager nobody had heard of, and still showing up at the Somerville Boxing Club all these years later. I’ve been going through some old fight footage and interviews online, and a few long recordings needed breaking up, so I used this audio splitter to cut them at the quiet gaps. Nice to see him get a write-up like this.
Stoney sounds like the real deal — leaving a steady MBTA job to train a teenager nobody had heard of, then still showing up at the Somerville Boxing Club all these years later. I’ve been digging through old boxing clips online, and the ring-walk music got me curious about the actual notes, so I ran a short bit of audio through this MP3 to MIDI converter to see the melody written out. Either way, good to see him get a write-up like this.
Stoney sounds like the kind of guy every neighborhood could use — walking away from a steady MBTA job to train a teenager nobody had heard of, then still showing up at the gym decades later. I’ve stumbled on old clips from the Somerville Boxing Club online, and a few were too heavy to pass along without trimming, so I’ve used Video Size Reducer to get them down to a shareable size. Nice to see him get this kind of write-up.
Nice to see Stoney get this kind of recognition — leaving a steady MBTA job to train a kid nobody had heard of says a lot about him, and it’s good he’s still at the Somerville Boxing Club. I’ve been sketching portraits of local folks from old photos lately, and I use Grid Maker to keep the proportions straight when working on paper. Someone should do a drawing of Stoney from one of those gym photos. Thanks for sharing his story.
Stoney’s story stuck with me — walking away from a steady MBTA job to train a teenager nobody had heard of takes a kind of faith you can’t really calculate in advance. I’ve been reading up on how different traditions look at timing and chance, and I’ve been poking around 数术排盘 Shushu Paipan for that sort of thing. Either way, hats off to him for staying on the front lines in Somerville all these years.
What stands out to me is that he walked away from a steady MBTA job to train a teenager nobody had heard of. Most people would have called that a bad bet. The fact that it produced a heavyweight champion tells you something about trusting raw talent over security. Somerville should be proud he never really left.
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Stoney’s boxing club sounds like the real Mage Arena where he transforms young fighters into champions – what a legend for our community