HALL OF FAMER „GULLDRAKKURINN“ OSCAR DE LA HOYAAÐ MÆTA 2024 HALL OF FAME HELGIN35 ára afmæli Hall of Fame sett í júní 6 – 9
KARFA, NY – MARS 18, 2024 – Alþjóðlega frægðarhöllin og safnið í hnefaleikum, sem fagnar 35 ára afmæli sínu í 2024, er ánægð að tilkynna að Hall of Famer „Gulldrengurinn“ Oscar De La Hoya mun taka þátt í veislu meistaranna og aðra viðburði sem fyrirhugaðir eru fyrirhugaðir á 2024 Hall of Fame Induction helgi sett í júní 6-9.
„Frá ólympíugull til heimsmeistaratitla í sex deildum, Oscar De La Hoya fangaði ímyndunarafl hnefaleikaaðdáenda um allan heim,“ sagði Hall of Fame leikstjórinn Edward Brophy. „Við hlökkum mikið til að bjóða „Gullna drenginn“ velkominn aftur til Canastota í tilefni 35 ára afmælis Hall of Fame.“
De La Hoya skoraði a 223-5 (153 Kos) áhugamannaferill með því að vinna léttvigt gull á 1992 Olympic Games. Hann gerðist atvinnumaður sama ár og vann sinn fyrsta heimsmeistaratitil - WBO ofurfjaðurvigt – í aðeins 12. atvinnumannabardaga hans og myndi halda áfram að vinna 10 heimsmeistaratitla í sex þyngdarflokkum.
Meðal meistaranna sem hann sigraði eru Jorge Paez, John John Molina, Rafael Ruelas, Genaro Hernandez, Ike Quartey, Fernando Vargas, Ricardo Mayorga og Hall of Famers Hector Camacho, Julio Cesar Chavez, Pernell Whitaker og Arturo Gatti.
Einn stærsti aðdráttaraflið sem greitt er fyrir hverja skoðun í sögu hnefaleika. De La Hoya lét af störfum 2008 með atvinnumannaskrá um 39-6 (30 Kos). Í 2002 hann stofnaði kynningarstöð Golden Boy Promotions. Í 2014 „Gulldrengurinn“ var kjörinn í frægðarhöllina á fyrsta ári sínu sem kjörgengi.
Glæsilegur listi yfir 35 stórmenn í hnefaleikum frá Bandaríkjunum og erlendis, þar á meðal Class of 2024, Frægðarhöllin sem snýr aftur og sérstakir gestir munu taka þátt í hátíðarhöldunum um frægðarhöllina.
Flokkur af 2024 til heiðurs eru hnefaleikakappar Ricky Hatton, Ivan Calderon,Diego Corrales (eftirlifandi), Michael Moorer, Jane sófi,Ana María Torres, Luis Angel Firpo (eftirlifandi), Theresa Kibby (eftirlifandi), þjálfari Kenny Adams,framkvæmdastjóri Jackie Kallen, kynningarmaður Fred Sternburg, blaðamaður Wallace Matthews og útvarpsstjóri Nick Charles (eftirlifandi).
Flokkur af 2024 verður heiðraður á Hall of Fame Induction Helga í júní 6-9, 2024, í "Boxing's Hometown." Margir viðburðir munu eiga sér stað í Canastota og í nágrenninu Turning Stone Resort spilavítinu allan fjögurra daga hátíðina, þar á meðal hringborðsviðræður, hnefakast, bardagakvöld, 5K keppni / skemmtihlaup, sýning á eiginhandaráritanir í hnefaleikum, veislu, skrúðgöngu og vígsluathöfn.
Allar upplýsingar um viðburðinn má finna á www.ibhof.com. Fyrir frekari upplýsingar um 2024 Hall of Fame Innsetningarhelgi, vinsamlegast hringdu (315) 697-7095.
Tengstu við International Boxing Hall of Fame í gegnum samfélagsmiðla:
Um International Boxing Hall of Fame Alþjóðlega frægðarhöllin í hnefaleikum opnaði almenningi í 1989 og er tileinkað því að varðveita arfleifð hinnar miklu hnefaleikaíþróttar. Staðsett í Canastota, New York, það þjónar sem virðing til bestu hnefaleikakappa heims og stuðlar að íþróttinni, leyfa hnefaleikaáhugamönnum að meta og fagna ríkri sögu og hefð hnefaleika.
International Boxing Hall of Fame er staðsett við Exit 34 frá New York fylki Thruway. Opnunartími er mánudaga-sunnudaga 10 a.m. að 4 p.m.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Hring. (Júlí 23, 2020) — Multiple world title challenger and decorated amateur boxerBJ “El Peligroso” Blómnever really had a chance. He was born into a boxing family and the now 41-year-old Flores has certainly made the most of it.
Flores is boxing’s all-purpose guy: Boxer, television color commentator, and trainer.
Faðir hans, Ralph Flores, was a military person who earned his “boxing coaching bones” gegnum Kenny Adams, head coach of the 1988 USA Boxing Olympic Team and assistant coach four years earlier. The ’88 USA Olympic Boxing Team includedRoy Jones, Jr., Riddick Bowe, Ray Mercer, Andrew Maynard og Kennedy McKinney.
BJ started going to the gym with his father when he was four. His grandfather and older brother were also boxers. “My father wasn’t a boxer, but he learned how to coach boxing from assisting Kenny Adams,” BJ explained. “He fell in love with boxing while working with Kenny and learned his way to teach boxing. Kenny is still like a grandfather to me.”
Flores also loved football and he was offered a full scholarship to attend Brigham Young University. He took two years off from BYU to serve a mission for The Church of Latter-day Saints in Mexico, where he lived in one of the poorest sections of Mexico in Culiacan. He began training there in the same gym where legendaryJulio Cesar Chaveztrained as a kid. Goodbye, fótbolta.
Sem áhugamaður Boxer, Flores had a superlative 110-11 met, highlighted by gold-medal performances at the 1997 National Golden Gloves and 2000 Western Trials, in addition to the 2001 & 2002 US Championships as a heavyweight. He was the only American to win gold in 2002 á að 4 Nations Tournament in Alabama versus Germany, France and Australia.
Flores targeted a berth on the 2004 USA Boxing Olympic Boxing Team, and he was a top contender, þó, he received an offer from Main Events to turn pro that BJ described as too lucrative to pass up.
“BJ’s decorated career as an amateur boxer, professional boxer, and broadcaster place him in a top tier of well-rounded USA Boxing Alumni,” said Chris Cugliari, USA Boxing Alumni Association Director. “His valuable experiences inside and outside the ring serve as great examples for the next generation of champions.”
Flores fought professionally from 2003 að 2018, compiling a solid 34-4-1 (21 Kos) met, including three major World title challenges, both as a heavyweight and cruiserweight. He captured eight regional titles, as well as the IBA and WBF World super cruiserweight championships.
During his boxing career, network officials discovered that he was a gifted boxer, as well as well-spoken, handsome and knowledgeable with a smooth delivery. More than anything else, he could effectively break down fighters and fights and instead of only noting what had happened, he explained why and what was going to happen for fans watching.
Blóm’ break as an announcer came, according to BJ, after his 2008 fight againstDarnell Wilsonlive on ESPN. “I was a 4-1 underdog against Wilson,” Flores said. “He was coming off five straight knockout victories and we were fighting in his hometown (Dover, Delaware). He was ranked No. 2 and I was No. 15. He came into the ring carrying a pillow for me, but I beat him for 10 af 12 umferðir.
“I was then brought into ESPN’s studios to be interviewed. Boxing was my life! I worked withBrian Kennyand we immediately had chemistry. By the end of that year, I was an ESPN in-studio commentator every three weeks.”
Flores ended up being hired as a ringside analyst in 2012 and he became part of the PBC (Premier Boxing Champions) broadcast team on NBC. He worked with giants in boxing and media industries such asSugar Ray Leonard, Al Michaels og Marv Albert.
Although Flores didn’t represent his country at the Olympic Games, he was a CBS Sports color commentator in 2012 og 2016. He is looking forward to calling Olympic boxing once again next year on CBS.
“Anytime you can represent the USA is a tremendous honor and great opportunity,” Flores added. “I called the 2012 Olympics (United Kingdom) og í 2016 (Brasilía). We called the action from a studio, but I’d love to call next year’s Olympics from ringside in Japan. Ég elska það. Nothing else in life matters to me versus the Olympics.”
Bandaríska hnefaleikasambandið
Created to champion lifelong, mutually beneficial relationships between USA Boxing and its alumni, –Boxer, embættismenn, þjálfarar og hnefaleikaaðdáendur — Alumni Félagið tengir kynslóðir meistara, hvetjandi og gefa til baka til framtíðar hnefaleikameistara USA Boxing, inn og út úr hringnum.
Bandaríska hnefaleikasambandið er opið öllum sem hafa áhuga á hnefaleikum og vilja vera í sambandi við áhugamannahnefaleika. Members are granted access to a wide variety of special events hosted by the Alumni Association, including its annual USA Boxing Alumni Association Hall of Fame reception.
Til að ganga í Alumni Association, skráðu þig einfaldlega á alumni@usaboxing.org fyrir $40.00 á ári félagsgjaldi. Nýir félagar fá stuttermabol, key-chain and e-wallet.
Í dag, Flores is a retired prizefighter living in Arizona. He still attends amateur boxing tournaments in Las Vegas and California. For the past six months he’s been training “Internet boxer” Jake Paul og, Auðvitað, BJ remains an accomplished color commentator/analyst.
When boxing fully returns on television, BJ will serve as a color commentator for The Impact Network, which plans to promote three shows a month.
Few active pro boxers have been television announcers at the same time they were fighting like Flores. Even though he’s now moved on from fighting to teaching as a trainer, he continues to be one of boxing’s most knowledgeable and popular commentators. Eflaust, BJ Flores is boxing’s all-purpose guy.
ABOUT USA BOXING:The mission of USA Boxing shall be to enable United States’ athletes and coaches to achieve sustained competitive excellence, develop character, support the sport of boxing, and promote and grow Olympic style boxing in the United States. The responsibility of USA Boxing is not only to produce Olympic gold, but also oversee and govern every aspect of amateur boxing in the United States.
This will be my 4th official amateur boxers reunion, with the first three having taken place in Las Vegas (Desember 2014), New York City (Júní 2015) and Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut (Júlí 2015).
Boxers who have attended previous reunions include the likes of four-time world champion Roy Jones Jr., three-time world champions Mike “The Body Snatcher” McCallum and Iran “The Blade” Barkley, WBO heavyweight champion Lamon Brewster, former WBC light heavyweight champion Montell “Ice” Griffin, 1988 Bandarískt. Olympic coach Kenny Adams.
I’ve had this idea to bring my former amateur peers together for many years and in December of 2014 at the Rival Boxing Store in Las Vegas I finally had my first amateur boxers reunion and it was a tremendous success. Since then I’ve had two more (at Jimmy’s -Glenn- Corner on W. 44th St. in NYC and at Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut)successful gatherings that have seen everyone from local amateurs, regional Golden Gloves champions, National AAU champions, heimsmeistarar, Olympians and every other possible level of amateur boxer.
I had originally planned to have boxers from my Olympic trials class (1988)gather for a reunion but changed it to any era or level. On that end we’ve had boxers ranging from 1976 A.A.U. National champion Bret Summers from Washington State and 1976 Jamaican Olympian Mike McCallum all the way up to 2004 Bandarískt. Olympian Jason Estrada.
Basically it’s a chance for us to get together, reminisce, tell stories, see old friends, meet people we’ve never met before. Maybe the best example of what my reunions entail came at the 2015 event at Foxwoods when I had Hartford’s Luis Ortiz and Lawrence Clay-Bey meet for the very first time since they boxed each other as young kids at Marc Anthony’s in Hartford way back in 1977!
ÞEGAR: Júlí 23, 2016, 12 hádegi til 4 kl
HVAR: Margaritaville Restaurant inside the Mohegan Sun casino @ Uncasville, Connecticut.
WHO: Invited and expected guests include, among MANY others:
WBA welterweight and junior middleweight champion Jose Antonio Rivera
Dickie Ecklund and “Irish” Micky Ward (“The Fighter”)
1984 Olympic Gold Medalist Mark Breland
Comp-U-Box record holder “Sucra” Ray Oliviera
“Contender Star Peter “the Pride of Providence” Manfredo Jr.
1996 Bandarískt. Olympic team captain Lawrence Clay-Bey
Current boxing promoter (Star Boxing in NYC) og 1988 NYC Daily News Golden Gloves 147 pound Champion Joe DeGuardia
Fyrrverandi tveggja deild heimsmeistari “Poison” Junior Jones from Brooklyn, NY
WBO World Heavyweight Champion Mike Bentt and 1988 Bandarískt. Olympic varamaður.
2004 Bandarískt. Olympian Jason “Big Six” Road
ICE
Quote: “
The wait in the dressing room before a professional boxing match -that last hour- could be enough to strip a man who never boxed before of whatever pride, desire and heart he THOUGHT he had” –Iceman John Scully, Apríl 2002
“Boxing is a tight-knit fraternity. Everybody knows everybody. But a line in the resin will forever be drawn separating those who step into the square ring and those who DON’T. Many, many people make money on a fight, but when the bell sounds, only two people answer it.” – Randy Smith, Febrúar 2003, Journal Inquirer (Manchester, Conn.) Newspaper
