安卡斯維爾, 康涅狄格州. (Augus14, 2017) – The Connecticut Boxing Hall of Fame (CBHOF) has announced its six-member Class of 2017 to be inducted during the 13^TH 每年CBHOF晚會感應晚宴 週六 夜晚, 十月 28, 在昂卡斯宴會廳金神大賭場.

The new CBHOF inductees are pioneer boxer “Professor” Charles Hadley, ring physician 博士. Tony Alessi, international boxing judge Clark Sammartino, referee/judgeDick Flaherty, 拳擊作家 Dan Parker and boxer/boxing contributor Hugh Devlin, SR.

“We continue to break barriers at CBHOF as we induct ‘Professor’ Charles Hadley who may have been the best ‘pound-for-pound fighter of his era,” CBHOF president 約翰·Laudati 說. Like many black athletes of this period, he never received the recognition he richly deserved. The CBHOF will rectify that this year. Other members of this year’s class are equally deserving and represent all aspects of this great sport. 博士. Alessi is not just an accomplished ring physician but also a world-renowned sports doctor. Clark Sammartino is one of the best judges in boxing. Dan Parker is an International Boxing Hall of Famer whose career as a reporter is unparalleled in any sport. Hughie Devlin Sr.’s contributions to this sport in Connecticut are immeasurable. We look forward to seeing boxing fans of all ages at this year’s dinner. It will be a wonderful evening for our inductees, our award winners, and especially for their family and friends.”

A familiar figure at ringside for major fights at Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods Resort Casino, 博士. Tony Alessi is a graduate of the University of Rome who moved to the Nutmeg State after completing his residency and neuro-muscular fellowship at the University fo Michigan. Alessi is a neurological consultant to the Connecticut State Boxing Commission, as well as the NFL Players Association and New York Yankees Player Development. He is based in Norwich, where he CEO for a medical management company.

At the height of career as a boxing judge, Clark Sammartino would average 100 bouts a year, 含 10 world championships. A Providence native and Brown University graduate, he started judging boxing matches after he retired as an oral surgeon. The 80-year-old Sammartino has judge fights involving some of boxing biggest stars such as Mike Tyson, 霍利菲爾德, 霍亞, Julio Cesar Chavez and many others.

An accomplished referee/judge from Braintree, 馬薩諸塞州, who now lives in Glastonbury, CT, Dick Flaherty has worked numerous notable fights featuring Bernard Hopkins, 乍得道森, Vernon Forrest and Sal “CANELO” 阿爾瓦雷斯, 更多的名人之中. Flaherty is best known for judging the first of three Arturo Gatti-Micky Ward fights, held at Mohegan Sun, voted the 2002 年度撲滅), in which Dick scored the Round of the Year (ninth), 10-7 for Ward, and the fight, 94-93, in Ward’s favor. His score proved to be the difference as Ward won a 10-round split decision.

沃特伯里, CT-native Dan Parker was a Waterbury sportswriter back in the early part of the 20^日 Century, whose articles in the New York Daily Mirror later exposed corruption in boxing. He exposed International Boxing Club (IBC) corruption and, due to Parker’s crusade, it was disbanded. Parker is induced in the prestigious International Boxing Hall of Fame, as well as the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame.

Hugh Devlin, SR. (22-13) made his professional boxing debut in 1927 在年齡 18, stopping Johnny Lorenzo in New Bedford, 質量. He developed into one of New England’s top featherweights, fighting across Connecticut in New Haven, 西黑文, Waterbury and New London. Devlin’s contributions to the Norwich boxing community made him an icon in southeastern Connecticut. He opened a restaurant in New London where menus were shaped like boxing gloves.

Individual Connecticut award winners were also announced: 吉米·威廉姆斯, 康涅狄格州. 年度職業拳擊手; 凱文·博尼利亞, 康涅狄格州. 年度業餘拳擊手; Hector Rosario, 貢獻拳擊; Danny Schiavone, Professional Boxing Official of the Year; Sachs Medina, Amateur Boxing Official of the Year:

門票CBHOF 13^日 年度盛會感應晚宴, 售價合理 $90.00, will soon go on sale and be available to purchase by calling 金貝克 在金神大賭場(1.860.862.7377) 或 謝爾曼該隱 在曼徹斯特雜誌詢問者 (1.800.237.3606 X321). 門開處 5:30 P.M. AND, cocktails from 6:00– P.M. AND (cash bar), followed by a full sit-down dinner.

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