(L-R) –
Bob and Murray Goodman
NIU YOKI (March 26, 2018) –
Boxing lifers Bob Goodman ati awọn baba rẹ, awọn pẹ
Murray Goodman,
are among 23
members of the Class of 2018
being inducted into the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame (NYSBHOF) lori
Sunday Friday (12:30-5:30 p.m. ATI), April 29.
The seventh annual NYSBHOF induction dinner will be held once again at Russo’s On The Bay in Howard Beach, Niu Yoki.
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) iṣẹ. 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, boya, 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, awọn iwọn, 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 (jina ọtun)
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, Larry Holmes, Ken Norton, Felix Trinidad, Roberto Duran, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, Bob Foster, Salvador Sanchez, Sugar Ray Leonard, Julio Cesar Chavez, Wilfredo Gonez, Ricardo Lopez, Bernard Hopkins and so many more.
Ngbe boxers nlọ sinu awọn NYSBHOF ni (Spring Valley) IBF Cruiserweight World asiwaju Al “Ice” Cole (35-16-3, 16 KOs), (Long Island) WBA ina heavyweight Lou “Honey Boy” Valley (36-6-2, 22 KOs), (Central Islip) IBF Junior Welterweight World asiwaju Jake Rodriguez (28-8-2, 8 KOs), (Brooklyn) aye lightweight akọle Challenger Terrence Alli (52-15-2, 21 KOs), ati (Buffalo) undefeated aye-kilasi heavyweight “Baby” Joe Mesi (36-0, 29 KOs).
Posthumous olukopa ni Roll ni o wa NBA & NYSAC World Featherweight asiwaju (Manhattan) Omo kekere “Cuba Bon Bon” chocolate (136-10-6, 51 KOs), (New York City) 20thorundun heavyweight James J. “jeje Jim” Corbett (11-4-3, 5 KOs), (Williamsburg) World asiwaju Lightweight Jack “The Napoleon of The Prize Oruka” McAuliffe, (Kingston) WBC Super Lightweight asiwaju Billy Costello (40-2, 23 KOs), (Bekini) NYSAC Light Heavyweight World asiwaju Melio Bettina (83-14-3, 36 KOs), (Brooklyn / Yonkers) aye-kilasi middleweight Ralph “Tiger” Jones (52-32-5, 13 KOs) ati (Port Washington) heavyweight contender Charley “The Bayonne Bomber” Norkus (33-19, 19 KOs).
Living non-participants heading into the NYSBHOF are (Troy) Pulitzer joju-gba sportswriter Dave Anderson, (Brooklyn) olukọni / Onimọnran Pete Brodsky, (Rockaway) Boxing akoitan / olootu Herb Goldman, (Ardsley) NYSAC Alaga / adajo Melvina Lathan, ati (Brooklyn) NYSAC Chairperson/matchmaker/olugbeleke Ron Scott Stevens.
Posthumous ti kii-alabaṣe inductees ni o wa (Brooklyn) oruka announcer Johnnie Addie, (Brooklyn) matchmaker Johnny Bos, (Bronx) Boxing onkqwe / akoitan Bert Randolph Sugar ati (Lower East Side) redio & tẹlifisiọnu announcer / onise Sam Taub.
Kọọkan deede si inductee (tabi taara ọmọ) yoo gba a aṣa-a še igbanu àkàwé rẹ tabi rẹ fifa irọbi sinu NYSBHOF.
Awọn 2017 inductees won ti yan nipa awọn NYSBHOF nominating ẹgbẹ igbimo: Bobby Cassidy, Jr., Randy Gordon, Henry Hascup, Don Majeski, Ron McNair, ati Neil Terens.
Gbogbo boxers nilo lati wa ni aláìṣiṣẹmọ fun o kere odun meta to le yẹ fun NYSBHOF fifa irọbi, ati gbogbo inductees gbọdọ ti gbé ni New York State fun a significant ìka ti won Boxing dánmọrán tabi nigba ti nomba ti wọn ọmọ.
NYSBHOF
Kilasi ti 2012: Carmen Basilio, Mike McCallum, Mike Tyson, Jake LaMotta, Riddick Bowe, Carlos Ortiz, Vito Antuofermo, Emile Griffith, “Sugar” Ray Robinson, Gene Tunney, Benny Leonard, Tony Canzoneri, Harold Lederman, Steve Acunto, Jimmy Glenn, Gil Clancy, Ray Arcel, Nat Fleischer, Bill Gallo ati Arthur Mercante, SR.
Kilasi ti 2013: Jack Dempsey, Johnny Dundee, Sandy Saddler, 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, Larry Merchant, Teddy Brenner, Mike Jacobs, Tex Rickard ati Don Dunphy.
Kilasi OF 2014: Floyd Patterson, Tracy Harris Patterson, Billy Backus, Kevin Kelley, Juan Laporte, Gerry Cooney, Mustafa Hamsho, Howard Davis, Jr., Lou Ambers, Jack Britton, Terry McGovern, Teddy Atlas, Lou DiBella, Steve Farhood, Gene Moore, Angelo Prospero, Whitey Bimstein, Cus D'Amato, William Muldoon ati Tom O'Rourke.
Kilasi OF 2015: Saulu Mamby, Joey Giamba, Johnny Persol, Harold Weston, Lonnie Bradley, Paul Berlenbach, Billy Graham, Frankie Genaro, Bob Miller, Tommy Ryan, Jimmy Slattery, Bob Duffy, Mike Katz, Tommy Gallagher, Bruce Silverglade, Charley Goldman, Jimmy Johnston, Cedric Kushner, Harry Markson, Damon Runyon ati Al Weill.
Kilasi OF 2016: Aaron Davis, Charles Murray, Vilomar Fernandez, Edwin Viruet, Hector “Macho” Camacho, Rocky Graziano, Rocky Kansas, Joe Lynch, Joe Miceli, Ed Brophy, Joe DeGuardia, Randy Gordon, Dennis Rappaport, Howie Albert, Freddie Brown, Howard Cosell, Ruby Goldstein ati Jimmy Jacobs.
Kilasi OF 2017: Gaspar Ortega, Renaldo “Ogbeni” Snipes, Doug DeWitt, “The Bronx Bomber” Alex Ramos, Dick Tiger, Jose Torres, “Nonpareil” Jack Dempsey, Don Majeski, Ron Katz, Stan Hoffman, Bobby Bartels, Hank Kaplan, Al Gavin, Arthur Donovan ati Dan Parker.
Tiketi ti wa ni owole ni $150.00 fun agbalagba ati $70.00 fun awọn ọmọde (labẹ 16),ki o si ni kan pipe brunch ati amulumala wakati lori titẹsi, ti o bere ni
12:30 p.m. ATI, bi daradara bi ale (nomba o wonu, eja tabi adie) ati ìmọ bar jakejado ọjọ. Tiketi wa o si wa lati ra nipa kikan si NYSBHOF / Iwọn 8 Aare Bob Duffy ni 516.313.2304 tabi
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