(L-R) –
Bob and Murray Goodman
NEW EBORACUM (March 26, 2018) –
Boxing lifers Bob Goodman et patrem suum, nuper
Murray Goodman,
are among 23
members of the Class of 2018
being inducted into the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame (NYSBHOF) on
Sunday post meridiem, (12:30-5:30 p.m. ATQUE), Aprilis 29.
The seventh annual NYSBHOF induction dinner will be held once again at Russo’s On The Bay in Howard Beach, New York,.
A legendary boxing publicist, Murray Goodman (Bronx) brought his son into the sweet science when Bob was only eight years old. The rest was historic for the Goodmans, who are both inductees in several Halls of Fame, including the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
“This is a great honor for me and my father,” Bob said. “I wish he were alive today to be there. I’m a boxing lifer. I was eight years old going to all the training camps with my father, who was a boxing writer and sports editor for the INS (Hearst News Service) obsequium. The joke is I was conceived at Grossinger’s (Catskill Resort Hotel training camp). Boxing just came into my life. My dad and I had some businesses in promotions and public relations, all different kinds of sports-related businesses, but there was always boxing.
“I’m the luckiest guy in the world. I was brought up doing the very things I loved. How many people can say that? I met and became friends with Joe Louis, Marcel Cerdan, Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Graziano, Rocky Marciano and so many others. I’d stay in camps for weeks. I’d get up to run with the boxers and got a chance to be around my heroes. I also got to know trainers and others in boxing and later fans. I got to know everybody. I was brought up in boxing, my whole life was boxing, 65 years in the business.”
Bob is, fortasse, best known as Vice President and Matchmaker for Madison Square Garden (1985-1994), as well as a quarter-century serving as Vice President of Boxing Operations, Matchmaker and Director of Public Relations for Don King Productions. He also promoted many world champions as President of his own company, Garden State Boxing.
“I remember going away to training camps for weeks at a time,” the 78-year-old Goodman fondly remembered. “I’d take pictures, write stories every day and use my telecopier to send them to AP and UPI. I did so much being brought up un the business, even loading trucks up with chairs, Suspendi itaque anulum, speakers and more. My father was the Publicity Director for the International Boxing Club at Madison Square Garden. I worked there when I was a teenager.
“I’m honored to be inducted into the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame with my father and so many boxing guys. They’re different from people in any other sports. One of the awards I’ve won that I’m most proud of is the James J. Walker Memorial Award for Long and Meritorious Service to Boxing (BWAA in 1960).
“I’m fortunate to have transcended various eras in boxing. It was a different world back then, we had 20-30 writers stay for weeks at training camps. I got to know old-time boxers and trainers.”
Bob Goodman (L) checking Muhammad Ali’s weight and on right with Rocky Marciano
Goodman, who served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1958-62, stays active today working with veterans’ groups. He is President of the Weymouth Township Veteran’s Advisory Board, and also active with the American Legion and part of the Honor Guard with the Korean War Veterans Association.
Bob Goodman (longe ius)
was inducted into the IBHOF in 2009,
his father Murray in 1999
Among the world champions Bob has worked with are Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Joe Frazier, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Ken Norton, Felix Trinidad, Duran Roberto, Evander Holyfield, Levinius Lewis, Bob Foster, Salvador Sanchez, Sugar Ray Leonard, Julio Cesar Chavez, Wilfredo Gonez, Ricardo Lopez, Bernard Hopkins and so many more.
Petere autem studiosissime pugiles NYSBHOF includit in animam viventem (Spring Valley) IBF Cruiserweight Mundus Champion al “Glacies” Cole (35-16-3, 16 KOs), (Long Island) WBA lux heavyweight Lou “Puer mel” Vallis (36-6-2, 22 KOs), (Central Islip) IBF Iunior Welterweight Mundus Champion Timotheus Rodriguez (28-8-2, 8 KOs), (Brooklyn) Aemulator mundi title PERFUSORIUS Terrence Alli (52-15-2, 21 KOs), atque (Buffalo) invictum mundi-genus heavyweight “Infantem” Joe Mesi (36-0, 29 KOs).
Participantium post quod, sunt NBA inducted & NYSAC mundo Featherweight Champion (Art) Kid “Cubanus Bon Bon” scelerisque (136-10-6, 51 KOs), (New York City) 20thsaeculum heavyweight Jacobus J.. “Jim nobilis” Corbett (11-4-3, 5 KOs), (Williamsburg) Mundi Lightweight Champion Jack “M. Quod autem in Prize Orbis” McAuliffe, (Kingeston ') Super WBC Lightweight Champion Puer Sacris Solemnis (40-2, 23 KOs), (Beacon) Lux NYSAC Heavyweight Mundus Champion melio Bettina (83-14-3, 36 KOs), (Brooklyn / Yonkers) mundi-genus middleweight Radulphus “Tiger” Jones (52-32-5, 13 KOs) atque (Washington Portus) heavyweight CONCERTATOR Pompeii “De Baiona imperium!” Norkus (33-19, 19 KOs).
Living non-participants heading into the NYSBHOF are (Troy) Pulitzer Praemium-blandeque sportswriter Dave Anderson, (Brooklyn) trainer / Consiliario Pete Brodsky, (Rockaway) caestu historia / Editor herba Goldman, (Ardsley) NYSAC chairperson / judex Melvina Lathan, atque (Brooklyn) NYSAC Chairperson/matchmaker/promotor Ron Tullius Cicero.
Post non-esse particeps inductionibus (Brooklyn) circulum annuntiator Johnnie Addie, (Brooklyn) conciliantis ago Homo johnny, (Bronx) caestu scriptor / commentariis Arx Martin Randolphus atque (Minus latere orientis) radio & annuntiator television / diurnarius Sam Taub.
Quisque attendens inductee (et perpetuata propagine procul) balteus significat consuetudinem suam accipiet disposuerat in inductione NYSBHOF.
The 2017 electi sunt a sodalibus inductionibus NYSBHOF Acacium: Bobby Cassidy, Jr., Randy Gordon, Henricus Hascup, Don Majeski, Vivamus McNair, atque Neil Terens.
Omnes opus ad quieti stativis studiosissime pugiles certe tribus annis ad esse eligibile in inductione NYSBHOF, oportet inductionibus et habitaverunt in Novum Eboracum rei publicae gestis ad partem sui, vel in prima sui cuiusque curriculo pugilatu.
NYSBHOF
ORDO de 2012: Carmen Basilio, Mike McCallum, Mike Tyson, Jake lamotta, Riddick: Inclinate, Carlos Ortiz, Vito Antuofermo, Emile Griffith, “Sugar” Ray Robinson, Gene Tunney, Leonard Benny, Tony Canzoneri, Harold Lederman, Steve Acunto, Thomas Cornelius, Gil Clancy, Ray Arcel, Nat Fleischer, Bill Gallo et Arthur mercante, Sr.
ORDO de 2013: Jack Dempsey, Johnny Dundee, Sandy BEVERLACENSE, Maxie Rosenbloom, Joey Archer, Iran Barkley, Mark Breland, Bobby Cassidy, Doug Jones, Junior Jones, James “Buddy” McGirt, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Bob Arum, Shelly Finkel, Tony Graziano, Merchant Larry, Teddy Brenner, Mike Jacobs, Tex Rickard et Don Dunphy.
CARDACES 2014: Floyd Patterson, Tracy Harris Patterson, Billy Backus, Kevin Kelley, Juan LAPORTE, Willie Cooney, Mustafa Hamsho, Howard Davis, Jr., Lou Ambers, Jack Britton, Terry McGovern, Atlas Teddy, Lou DiBella, Steve Farhood, Gene Moore, Angelo Prospero, Whitey Bimstein, D'Amato Cus, William Muldoon et Tom O'Rourke.
CARDACES 2015: Saul Mamby, Joey Giamba, John Persol, Harold Weston, Lonnie Bradley, Paul Berlenbach, Artist Tullius Cicero, Frankie Genaro, Cornelius Tacitus, Tommy Ryan, Jimmy Slattery, Bob Duffy, Mike Katz, Tommy Gallagher, Bruce Silverglade, Carolus Goldman, Anno Cicero, Cedric Kushner, Harry Markson, Damon Runyon Weill, et al.
CARDACES 2016: Aaron Cicero, Charles Murray, Vilomar Fernandez, Marcus Viruet, Hector “macho” Camacho, Rocky Graziano, Petrosa Kansas, Joe Lynch, Joe Miceli, ed Brophy, Joe DeGuardia, Randy Gordon, Dennis Rappaport, Albert howie, Sed vestibulum blandit Brown, Vivamus ligula, Et arcum ecliptice EN ruby ​​Jimmy Jacobs.
CARDACES 2017: Gaspar Ortega, Renaldo “Dominus.” snipes, Doug Dewitt, “Et Bronx imperium!” Alex Ramos, Dick Tigris, Jose Torres, “Nonpareil” Jack Dempsey, Don Majeski, Ron Rapidshare, Carl Cornelius, Gaius Bartels, Hank Nabu, Al Gavin, Donovan Arthur, et Dan Parker.
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