NYSBHOF Синфи 2019: (L-R – seated) – Bob Jackson, John McKaie, Dick DiVeronica, Regilio Turr, Don King and Michal Olajidfe; (L-R – истода) – Ангуштарин 8 president Charles Norkus, Джр, Monte Barrett, Arthur Mercante, Джр, Steve Albert and NYSBHOF president Bob Duffy
(all pictures by Peter Frutkoff / NYSBHOF)
Inimitable promoter Don King led the 24-member Class of 2019 into the NYSBHOF
НЬЮ-ЙОРК (Апрел 30, 2019) – A record turnout honored the Class of 2019 at this past Sunday’s eighth annual New York State Boxing Hall of Fame (NYSBHOF), сарпарастӣ аз тарафи Ринг 8, at Russo’s On the Bay in Howard Beach, Нью-Йорк.
“We had our largest attendance, 402 мардум,” a happy and proud NYSBHOF presidentБоб Duffysaid at the event. “This is the way we show our appreciation with this special belt for these New Yorkers for what they’ve given boxing through the years. Thanks to a lot of peoples’ efforts this is our eighth year. I hope we can do another 50. I’d like to thank everyone of these inductees, and their family members for their support. It’s all about family.”
боксчиёни зиндагӣ ҷое ба NYSBHOF мегирад (Bronx-born) three-time, қаҳрамони ҷаҳон ду-таќсимоти Wilfredo Benitez (53-8-1, 31 KOs), (Hempstead) WBO super featherweight world championRogelio Tuur (46-4-1, 30 KOs), (Bronx) 1968 U.S. Olympian Davey Vasquez (19-15, 6 KOs), WBO super middleweight world title challengerMichael Olajide (27-5, 19 KOs), of Manhattan, New York welterweightDick DiVeronica(44-13-1, 13 KOs), ва маликаҳо’ world heavyweight title challengerMonte Barrett (35-11-2, 20 KOs).
Posthumous participants being inducted are (Bronx) three-time lightweight world championJimmy Carter (84-31-9, 34 KOs), Welterweight Бруклин Al “Bummy” Дэвис (65-10-4, 46 KOs), (Schenectady) қаҳрамони welterweight ҷаҳон Marty Servo (47-4-2, 14 KOs), (Bronx) world heavyweight title challengerRoland LaStarza (57-9, 27 KOs), Brooklyn world lightweight championPaddy DeMarco (75-26-3, 8 KOs )and Manhattan’s Lower East Side lightweightsSid Terris (94-13-5, 12 KOs) ва Leach “The Fighting Dentist” Cross (35-10-4, 22 KOs).
Living non-participants heading into the NYSBHOF are New York City-based promoterДон Кинг, Flushing judgeJohn McKaie, refereeArthur Mercante, Jr. Brooklyn sportscasterSteve Albert, and Bronx trainerBob Jackson.
Posthumous non-participant inductees are Utica matchmakerDewey Fragetta, Crown, Queens refereeJohnny LoBianco, Garden City refereeWayne Kelly, Flushing sportsmanHarry Hill, award-winning journalistJimmy Cannon, of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, and NYSAC official/former NABF presidentJoe Dwyer, аз Бруклин.
Ҳар inductee рафтан (ё насли бевоситаи) received a custom-designed belt signifying his or her induction into the NYSBHOF.
The 2019 inductees аз тарафи аъзои кумитањои NYSBHOF интихоб карда шуданд:Ранди Гордон, Хенри Hascup, Дон Majeski, Рон McNair, ва Нил Terens.
Ҳамаи боксчиёни лозим бошад, ғайрифаъол дар давоми на камтар аз се сол мешавад, ҳуқуқи induction NYSBHOF, ва ҳамаи inductees бояд дар Ню-Йорк барои қисмати зиёди мансаб бокс худ ё дар давоми сарвазири касб дахлдори худ зиндагӣ кардаанд.
INDUCTEES’ Нохунак & Тасвирҳо
Bob Jackson: “It’s hard to speak at times like this when being honored by friends. It’s been a great run. I live on memories and I have thousands. They keep me going. Never give up, always keep punching.”
(L-R) presenter Vinny Maddalone & 2019 NYSBHOF inductee Bob Jackson
Regilio Tuur: “I was a black kid from Holland fighting in the Olympics. Pretty much a nobody fighting the U.S. қаҳрамони. They bought my return plane ticket before I even fought because they though my opponent was unbelievable. I trained to fight him, a southpaw, for a year and had a big fight hand that nobody knew of. I wanted to come to American and make by father proud. I retired from the pros) undefeated and make a lot money. I’m honored today. I had a great manager, Stan Хоффман, who is a man who made us men. Standing here today is a dream.”
John McKaie: “I have a great job and to be honored for something I really love doing is a great honor. I’d like to thank various commissions for licensing me, but New York is my home. I’d like to thank all the boxers because it’s been a pleasure judging them.”
L-R) – Presenter Melvina Latham, 2019 NHSBHOF inductee John McKaie and NYSBHOF president Bob Duffy
Monte Barrett: “Congratulations to everybody up here. There’s so much history in this room. I’ve been in boxing 18 years and have a select memory, but there have been so many amazing experiences and accomplishments. I love this guy (trainer Jimmy Glenn). A lot of managers don’t even ask how you’re doing. My manager was the great Stan Hoffman. He gave me $50,000, $3000 a month and another $1000 for insurance without a contract. Stan said: ‘How you doing? I believe in you and love you.’ Дар 2005, I was having an argument with Don King about money. He said, ‘Life is a negotiation.’ Хуб, I’m negotiating now, and I’m in the Hall of Fame.”
(L-R) – Presenter Melvina Latham, 2019 NHSBHOF inductee Monte Barrett and his wife, Shaneka, and NYSBHOF president Bob Duffy
Arthur Mercante, Джр: “What a great honor it is to be recognized by Ring 8 and the boxing community. Дар 2012, my dad was inducted into the New York Boxing Hall of Fame Now he’s looking down today and he’s so proud. I entered the Golden Gloves at the age of 17. Un the quarterfinals I lost to a great fighter and Hall of Famer, Хуан LaPorte. Like any boxer, I thought that I had won, and wanted aa rematch. My father told me I didn’t like road work and just lost a three-round fight. He asked if I’d like to be a referee. I started in 1979 and my father made me work five years before turning pro. I went on to ref so many great fights, including one on the same card with my father at Radio City Music Hall. My greatest fight was Lennox Lewis versus Evander Holyfield.”
(L-R) – 2019 NYSBHOF inductee Arthur Mercante, Jr. and presenter James Mercante
Michael Olajide: “I’m really honored to be here today. My history in boxing goes back a little now. There’s nothing better to be honored by those who are a part of your profession. Сипос. I’ve had an incredible journey: Liverpool to Canada to New York. Boxing has given me so much. I wouldn’t be the person I am without boxing. To live is to fight. Boxing and life are synonymous”
(L-R) – Presenter Jack Hirsch and 2019 NYSBHOF inductee Michael Olajide
Steve Albert: “It is a tremendous honor to be honored by these luminaries. To be recognized in your own state is special. This is a celebration of all of New York. I worked 23 years for Showtime Championship Boxing, аз 1987-2010, and the most dramatic was Corrales-Castillo I, one of the greatest fights of all time. I got the see the world because of boxing, but it was the lighter moments I remember most. Only in boxing do you have these characters and amazing experiences.”
(L-R) – Presenter Randy Gordon and 2019 NYSBHOF inductee Steve Albert
Дон Кинг: “Only in America, дуруст? I’m happy to be inducted into the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame. O got into boxing with Muhammad Ali for his first fight and he stayed with me. A black and a Jew, me and Al Braverman, revolutionized boxing. Mario Cuomo gave me my license to promote in New York. One of our three offices was at 30 Rockefeller Center overlooking this great city. New York is a great city and stayed, so good they named it twice, Нью-Йорк, Нью-Йорк. I’m proud and privileged for all the young men and women honored here. I’m so proud to be inducted with them today. I’m here because New York played such a vital role in my career. I’m happy to be here today to accept this award. I got my belt!”
Presenter Don Majeski, 2019 NYSBHOF inductee Don King and Master of Ceremonies Dave Diamante
Дон Кинг, Jimmy Cannon, Jimmy Carter & Wilfredo Benitez headline Class of 2019 inductees
НЬЮ-ЙОРК (Апрел 22, 2019) – Canastota, New York welterweightDick DiVeronicaembodies the true spirit of the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame: New Yorkers honoring New Yorkers for their accomplishments and achievements in boxing.
DiVeronica will be part of a 24-member Class of 2019 inducted at the eighth annual NYSBHOF induction dinner thisSunday afternoon (12:30-5:30 Земле. ВА), Дар бораи The Bay зењни дар Ховард Бич, Нью-Йорк.
“This is what the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame is about, honoring and remembering men and women who devoted their time and energy to our beloved sports,” NYSBHOF presidentБоб Duffy гуфт:. “We thank all of them and their families for sharing these special people with us.”
Limited tickets are still available, Он Баҳомондашудае ки дар $125.00 як калонсолон ва $60.00 барои кўдакони (зери 16), ва дохил brunch пурра ва Коктейл соат бар вуруд, сар карда дар 12:30 Земле. ВА, инчунин нашуст, (қабурғаи сарвазири, моҳӣ ё парранда) ва панели кушод дар давоми рӯз. Tickets are available to purchase by contacting Duffy at 516.313.2304 ё depcomish@aol.com. Бирав, дар хатти дар www.Ring8ny.com Барои маълумоти иловагӣ дар бораи давлатии New York Толори бокс шўҳрат.
DiVeronica fought professionally between 1958-1972, тартиб додани як 44-31-1 (13 KOs) record as a welterweight contender. He was stopped only twice in 58 задухурдҳо тарафдори, once by NYSBHOF charter (2012) inducteeEmile Гриффит.
“This wasn’t expected (NYSBHOF induction) and we’re all super excited,” DiVeronica’s daughter Theresa commented. “We live in the same town as the International Boxing Hall of Fame, but my father will never be inducted into that Hall of Fame because he was never a world champion, only a contender. Билли Backus (undisputed world welterweight champion in 1971-72) is from Canastota, аз ҳад зиёд. He and my father never fought because they didn’t want the hometown fighter losing. My father was a humble guy and we’re so happy to have him recognized by the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame.”
DiVeronica will now join Backus, who was a member of the Class of 2014, in the NYSBHOF. Boxing was incredibly important in DiVeronica life in and out of the ring. He started a boxing club in Germany while stationed there in the U.S. Артиши. He even met his wife at the famed 5уми Сент. Gym in Miami. Dick was staying there at the home of a relative, right next door to where his future wife lived. One day he asked her out and eventually they were married and starting a family back in Canastota.
“My family is so excited,” Theresa added. “We’ll be there for the induction ceremony, even my older sister from Germany.”
Other living boxers heading into the NYSBHOF include (Bronx-born) three-time, қаҳрамони ҷаҳон ду-таќсимоти Wilfredo Benitez (53-8-1, 31 KOs), (Hempstead) WBO super featherweight world championRogelio Tuur (46-4-1, 30 KOs), (Bronx) 1968 U.S. Olympian Davey Vasquez (19-15, 6 KOs), WBO super middleweight world title challengerMichael Olajide (27-5, 19 KOs), of Manhattan, ва маликаҳо’ world heavyweight title challengerMonte Barrett (35-11-2, 20 KOs).
Posthumous participants being inducted are (Bronx) three-time lightweight world championJimmy Carter (84-31-9, 34 KOs), Welterweight Бруклин Al “Bummy” Дэвис (65-10-4, 46 KOs), (Schenectady) қаҳрамони welterweight ҷаҳон Marty Servo (47-4-2, 14 KOs), (Bronx) world heavyweight title challengerRoland LaStarza (57-9, 27 KOs), Brooklyn world lightweight championPaddy DeMarco (75-26-3, 8 KOs )and Manhattan’s Lower East Side lightweightsSid Terris (94-13-5, 12 KOs) ва Leach “The Fighting Dentist” Cross (35-10-4, 22 KOs).
Living non-participants heading into the NYSBHOF are New York City-based promoterДон Кинг, Flushing judgeJohn McKaie, refereeArthur Mercante, Jr. Brooklyn sportscasterSteve Albert, and Bronx trainerBob Jackson.
Posthumous non-participant inductees are Utica matchmakerDewey Fragetta, Crown, Queens refereeJohnny LoBianco, Garden City refereeWayne Kelly, Flushing sportsmanHarry Hill, award-winning journalistJimmy Cannon, of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, and NYSAC official/former NABF presidentJoe Dwyer, аз Бруклин.
Ҳар inductee рафтан (ё насли бевоситаи) як камарбанди-одати тарҳрезӣ қабул ишорат induction ў ба NYSBHOF.
The 2019 inductees аз тарафи аъзои кумитањои NYSBHOF интихоб карда шуданд:Ранди Гордон, Хенри Hascup, Дон Majeski, Рон McNair, ва Нил Terens.
Ҳамаи боксчиёни лозим бошад, ғайрифаъол дар давоми на камтар аз се сол мешавад, ҳуқуқи induction NYSBHOF, ва ҳамаи inductees бояд дар Ню-Йорк барои қисмати зиёди мансаб бокс худ ё дар давоми сарвазири касб дахлдори худ зиндагӣ кардаанд.
Arthur Mercante, Jr. was the third man in the ring for the March 13, 1999 world heavyweight title fight at Madison Square Garden between Evander Holyfield and Lennox Louis that ended in a draw
Якшанбе, Апрел 28, нашуст, Induction
Дон Кинг, Jimmy Cannon, Jimmy Carter & Wilfredo Benitez headline Class of 2019 inductees
НЬЮ-ЙОРК (Март 20, 2019) – International boxing refereeArthur Mercante, Jr.will join his father, охири Arthur Mercante, Sr., in the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame (NYSBHOF) to become the first father-son inducted into the NYSBHOF.
The 24-member Class of 2019 will be inducted at the eighth annual NYSBHOF induction dinner onSunday afternoon (12:30-5:30 Земле. ВА), Апрел 28, Дар бораи The Bay зењни дар Ховард Бич, Нью-Йорк.
Mercante, Jr. was an amateur boxer who lost in the 1976 New York Golden Gloves toХуан LaPorte (NYSBHOF inductee, синфи 2014). “I felt I beat him, and I wanted to turn pro,” Mercante, Jr. explained how he got into officiating. “My father said no as long as I lived in his house, but he suggested I try referring.”
Mercante, Jr. started refereeing in 1979 in the amateurs and moved up to the pro ranks in 1984. He has referred 336 задухурдҳо, аз ҷумла: 72 title fights. Mercante, Jr. has some wonderful memories, including a humorous story in which he was accidentally punched.
“I was referring a fight (unified world super middleweight title fight, оид ба Jan. 14, 2017 at Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn) миёни Badou Jack ва Яъқуб DeGale,” Mercante, Jr. remembered. “I heard the 10-second warning at the end of the sixth round and started counting 5-4-3-2-1. Ҳамзамон, Jack hit me in the face with a left hook, and I slipped. Beau asked me if I was alright. I said I was fine. Баъдтар, he said that he had hit me with a good shot and that I owned him a good shot. Баъд аз мубориза, he told me I can take a good shot.”
Mercante, Jr. believed the key to be a good referee is breaking apart fighters in clinches and staying out of the picture, because a fight isn’t about the referee.
One of his most memorable moments of his career was working the same show as his father, ки буд, 81 вақт, for the first time in 1981 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Father worked the main event betweenРой Jones, Jr. ва David Telesco, Mercante, Jr. handled a fight betweenDavid Izon ва Derrick Jefferson.
Ҳозир, Mercante, Jr. is heading into the NYSBHOF to join his father. “I never thought I’d be in any Hall of Fame,” Mercante, Jr. шарҳ. “When the call came January 27th (2019) аз Боб Duffy (NYBHOF president), it couldn’t have come at a more special day, because my father would have turned 99 Дар он рӯз.
“Шараф аст, especially going in with this class. I worked a fight between Michael Olajide and Эрон Barkley and Michael is getting in this year. Дон Кинг, албатта, and I worked a lot of shows with Wayne Kelly. Ангуштарин 8 has always been a great organization. I’d like to thank everyone involved.”
боксчиёни зиндагӣ ҷое ба NYSBHOF мегирад (Bronx-born) three-time, қаҳрамони ҷаҳон ду-таќсимоти Wilfredo Benitez (53-8-1, 31 KOs), Canastota welterweightDick DiVeronica (44-13-1, 13 KOs), (Hempstead) WBO super featherweight world championRogelio Tuur (46-4-1, 30 KOs), (Bronx) 1968 U.S. Olympian Davey Vasquez (19-15, 6 KOs), WBO super middleweight world title challengerMichael Olajide (27-5, 19 KOs), of Manhattan, ва маликаҳо’ world heavyweight title challengerMonte Barrett (35-11-2, 20 KOs).
Posthumous participants being inducted are (Bronx) three-time lightweight world championJimmy Carter (84-31-9, 34 KOs), Welterweight Бруклин Al “Bummy” Дэвис (65-10-4, 46 KOs), (Schenectady) қаҳрамони welterweight ҷаҳон Marty Servo (47-4-2, 14 KOs), (Bronx) world heavyweight title challengerRoland LaStarza (57-9, 27 KOs), Brooklyn world lightweight championPaddy DeMarco (75-26-3, 8 KOs )and Manhattan’s Lower East Side lightweightsSid Terris (94-13-5, 12 KOs) ва Leach “The Fighting Dentist” Cross (35-10-4, 22 KOs).
In addition to Mercante, Джр, other living non-participants heading into the NYSBHOF are New York City-based promoterДон Кинг, Flushing judgeJohn McKaie, Brooklyn sportscasterSteve Albert, and Bronx trainerBob Jackson.
Posthumous non-participant inductees are Utica matchmakerDewey Fragetta, Crown, Queens refereeJohnny LoBianco, Garden City refereeWayne Kelly, Flushing sportsmanHarry Hill, award-winning journalistJimmy Cannon, of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, and NYSAC official/former NABF presidentJoe Dwyer, аз Бруклин.
Ҳар inductee рафтан (ё насли бевоситаи) як камарбанди-одати тарҳрезӣ қабул ишорат induction ў ба NYSBHOF.
The 2019 inductees аз тарафи аъзои кумитањои NYSBHOF интихоб карда шуданд:Ранди Гордон, Хенри Hascup, Дон Majeski, Рон McNair, ва Нил Terens.
Ҳамаи боксчиёни лозим бошад, ғайрифаъол дар давоми на камтар аз се сол мешавад, ҳуқуқи induction NYSBHOF, ва ҳамаи inductees бояд дар Ню-Йорк барои қисмати зиёди мансаб бокс худ ё дар давоми сарвазири касб дахлдори худ зиндагӣ кардаанд.
