To the Alicea family even though I ve never met you to I send my deepest heartfelt condolensces and you are in my thoughts and prayers at this difficult time.......

I met Jimmy at Gleasons in 2000 when I first started and then he disappeared for awhile and resurfaced at a Goodman show in 2001 at K.O.C. in Mineola.

We started talking again and fast forward a year later I told Jimmy I was in need of a second job and within two hours he got me an interview with his boss for security and then a week later I was his second hand man at Club Europa in Greenpoint.

I met a great group of guys there and a shitload of hot!! Polish women, and at first I would say to Jimmy ' I jerk off to girls like these there is nooo way I could even come close to getting any of these girls" Jimmy showed me that anything is possible as he would regularly be flanked by beautiful women and whether he fucked them or not it didnt matter he changed my perception of him forever and also got me some quality Polish tail...

See we never really were that close not for any reason other than I lived in Rockland at the time in a bad relationship where I cut all my friends off and just because we never hung out too much me and Jimmy but thats the beauty of him, he was so kind to people who weren't in his immediate circle and I was one of them and it went even further than him getting me a job but when ABC was in the works Jimmy and I spoke about the "RESPECT" that guys like us had not been getting working for a particular NY promotion and he said was going to make me his first heavyweight champ, honestly the miserable bastard I was I never believed that and a week later I suffered a severe neck injury that kept me out of action for six months and yet JImmy still!!!! wanted me to come there to keep my spot.

And most recently Jimmy reached out to me via myspace and wished me well and congratulations on all of my successes in Puerto Rico and told me that he wants me to come home so he can have me work on top in his company again on his next show......

I never did make it for the show but I did ask to give up my spot and ask Jimmy to book another of the Gleasons boys. he did one better he booked a few of them and as the MIC eluded to earlier because of Jimmy those guys are getting a chance to shine now and getting booked elsewhere.

In closing Jimmy you will be greatly missed and I will say to you the polish greeting marking the time that I really got to know how great a friend and guy you were and also when you would pop me at the end of the night when you in Jimmy Hustler straight faced serious mode would say "goodnight" in Polish to the drunken patrons and you doing this would literally have me in tears bent over watching you say what I thought was (Da brown nuts) to these people of Europa who probably didnt understand ur dialect anyway but it is what I remembered and what you taught me and also rest in peace in Polish....

Dobronuc i spoczywa w pokoju

Love always your brother,
Tim Arson