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آف فیم کے طبقے کے کنیکٹیکٹ باکسنگ ہال 2018 Announced

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Cocoa Kid, John Harris, Bill Gore, برائن کلارک, Angel Vazquez & Don Trella

UNCASVILLE, کون. (اگست 13, 2018) – The Connecticut Boxing Hall of Fame (CBHOF) has announced its six-member Class of 2018 to be inducted during the 14TH annual CBHOF Gala Induction Dinner on Saturday night, اکتوبر 13, Mohegan سورج Uncas بال روم میں.

 

 

 

The new CBHOF inductees are boxers Cocoa Kid اور Angel Vazquez, judge Don Trella, and trainers John Harris, Bill Gore اور برائن کلارک.

 

 

 

ایک بار پھر سے,” CBHOF president جان Laudati کہا, “the Connecticut Boxing Hall of Fame has elected a fantastic class of inductees. We are excited about the historical significance of inducing Cocoa Kid, the great fighter from the 1930’s. Our other honorees come from across the state. We hope to see a large contingent come out to congratulate a great local boxer, Angel Vasquez, and to celebrate the life of Willie Pep’s famous trainer, Bill Gore. This class also includes two other incredibly accomplished trainers, Bill Clark, نیو ہیون کے, and John Harris from Fairfield County. Don Trella, who is from my hometown of Waterbury, is one of the best boxing judges in recent history. It promises to be a great night for the entire boxing community: inductees, their families and friends, لیکن, سب سے اہم بات, our Connecticut boxing fans!”

 

 

 

Cocoa Kid (56-20-2, 48 کوس) came to prominence in 1933, when as an 18-year-old he registered a shocking upset of former world featherweight champion لوئس “کڈ” Kaplan, who was inducted into the CBHOF charter class in 2005. Cocoa Kid, who settled in New Haven, captured the New England welterweight and middleweight titles. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2012 and passed way in 1966.

 

 

 

Considered one of the hardest hitting featherweights of his era, Vasquez won his first 21 pro fights and finished his pro career with a 22-2 (16 کوس) ریکارڈ. The Hartford native captured the WBO Latino, NABA and USBA featherweight titles. The highlight of his pro career came at home in Hartford, when he defeated previously unbeaten Berbardo Quinones (19-0-1) for the USBA crown.

 

 

 

Trella has been a boxing official for the past 21 years on the local, national and global scenes. He officiated more than 500 amateur bouts before he was awarded his first professional license in 2001 Mohegan سورج, where he has been employed the past 17 years in various Human Resources positions, currently holding the title of Director of Employee and Guest Experience. A resident of Noank, Trella is highly regarded as one of boxing’s best judges. گزشتہ سال, مثال کے طور پر, he officiated three of the most high-profile fights in the world: جیناڈی Golovkin بنام. ڈینی یاکوب, Vladimir Klitschko بنام. Anthony Joshua (سے زیادہ 90,000 fans in attendance at Wembley Stadium in London) and Golovkin vs. Canelo Alvarez کی.

 

 

 

Harris established himself as the preeminent trainer in Fairfield County, founding the Meadow Gardens Boxing Club in 1989, which was later renamed the John Harris Boxing Club, after he died in 2012 سال کی عمر میں 85. A native of Cleveland, where he fought in the Golden Gloves, Harris lived most of his life in Norwalk. The highlight of his career was in 1993, when he trained four fighters who qualified for the National Golden Gloves Championships, شامل Travis Simms, a CBHOF Hall of Fame inductee and two-time World Boxing Association (ڈبلیو بی اے) junior middleweight world champion.

 

 

 

Gore is best known for training the great ولی پیئپی, who was also inducted into the CBHOF charter class, to a pair of world featherweight championships. Gore, تاہم, also trained another all-time great, world light heavyweight champion باب فوسٹر. A native of Providence, Gore died in 1978 سال کی عمر میں 84 and he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2008.

 

 

 

Clark opened the Ring One gym in New Haven nearly 30 years ago to keep kids off the streets, producing many amateur champions, and even one light heavyweight world champion, چاڈ ڈاوسن. Often bankrolling the gym, خود, Clark has become an icon in New Haven, where his gym is in one of the city’s roughest neighborhoods. Ring One is believed to be the oldest continuously operating boxing gym in Connecticut.

 

 

 

CBHOF لئے ٹکٹ 13ویں سالانہ گالا ڈنر انڈکشن, معقول قیمت $90.00, are on sale and available to purchase by calling Ann Murphy at Mohegan Sun (1.860.862.8846) یا شیرمین کین مانچسٹر جرنل انکوائرر میں (1.800.237.3606 X321). دروازے پر کھولتے 6:00 بجے. AND, followed by a full sit-down dinner at 7 بجے. AND.

 

 

 

کرنے کے لئے جاؤ آن لائن www.ctboxinghof.org آف فیم کنیکٹیکٹ باکسنگ ہال کے بارے میں اضافی معلومات کے لیے, its 14ویں سالانہ گالا ڈنر inductee کی, واقعہ سپانسرشپ مواقع, یا ماضی CBHOF inductees کی.

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Connecticut’s top all-time great fighters & Foxwoods’ best fights

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جمعرات, جولائی 21
From Foxwoods Resort Casino – 8 بجے. AND/5 بجے. PT
MASHANTUCKET, CT (جولائی 19, 2016) — Connecticut may not have equal status with New York City or Las Vegas in terms of being a fight capital, but the Nutmeg State has produced five Hall-of-Famers with Foxwoods Resort Casino, located in Mashantucket, CT, hosting many of the sport’s greatest fighters and fights over the past two decades.
The tradition continues on جمعرات, جولائی 21, as rising middleweight contender Sergiy “The Technician” Derevyanchenko (8-0, 6 کوس) faces former world champion ہوں “کنگ” متوجہ (44-13, 18 کوس) کے 10 راؤنڈ کے اہم ایونٹ میں پریمیئر باکسنگ چیمپئنز پر ئایسپیین & ئایسپیین.
ٹیلی ویژن کی کوریج سے شروع ہوتی ہے 8 بجے. AND/5 بجے. PT, and features a 10-round middleweight clash between powerful Ievgen Khytrov (13-0, 11 کوس) and California’s پال مینڈیز (19-2-2, 9 کوس).
Connecticut’s all-time greatest boxer is the late Willie “Will ‘o the Wisp” Pep (229-11-1, 65 کوس), who was born in Middletown and lived in Rocky Hill. Pep, who fought professionally between 1940 اور 1966, was a two-time world featherweight champion who had an epic rivalry with سینڈی Saddler.
Other Hall-of-Famers from Connecticut are world heavyweight champion (1926-28)Gene “The Fighting Marine” Tunney (65-1-1, 48 کوس), of Greenwich, who defeated the legendary جیک ڈیمپسی دو بار; Ukrainian-born world featherweight (1925) titlist لوئس “کڈ” Kaplan (108-22-12, 72 کوس), from Meriden; world light heavyweight champion (1933) “Slapsie” Maxie Rosenbloom (222-42-31, 2 این سی, 19 کوس), of Leonard Bridge; world light heavyweight titleholder (1926-27) جیک “Bright Eyes” Delaney (73-11-2, 43 کوس), who was born in Canada but lived in Bridgeport.
Over the year, many other Connecticut fighters have made an impact on the sport including Hartford’s NBA featherweight champion Battling Battalino (57-26-3, 26 کوس), who was the first world champion to lose his title on the scale, Hartford’s two-time world welterweight titlist مارلن “جادو انسان” Starling (45-6-12, 27 کوس), Norwalk’s WBA junior middleweight champion “Tremendous” Travis Simms (28-1, 21 کوس), New Haven’s three-time world light heavyweight champion “برا” چاڈ ڈاوسن (33-4, 18 کوس) and world welterweight contender Gaspar “El Indio” Ortega (131-29-6, 69 کوس), Stamford’s world No. 1-ranked welterweight Chico Vejar (92-20-4, 43 کوس), and Bloomfield’s 1996 Olympic Team USA captain لارنس مٹی بے (21-3-1, 16 کوس).
The No. 1 Foxwoods fight of all-time, held on April 16, 2011, was also promoted by DiBella Entertainment, and was selected as the 2011 Ring Magazine and BWAA Fight of the Year. Defending champion آندری Berto (27-0) اور چیلنجر وکٹر Ortiz کی (28-2-2) battled for 12 راؤنڈ, each getting dropped twice, with Ortiz winning a hard-fought decision (114-111, 114-112, 115-110) for the WBC welterweight title.
A close second place is the 2003 BWAA Fight of the Year, in which future Hall-of-Famerجیمز Toney (65-4-2) won a 12-round decision over reigning IBF cruiserweight champion Vassiliy Jirov. The action started days earlier at the pre-fight press conference when a skirmish erupted as tables were overturned and glasses thrown. The animosity continued between the two fighters and their respective camps right up to the final bell. Previously undefeated, Jirov (31-0) started fast but faded, getting decked in the final round.
میں 2004, New England favorite سکاٹ “The Sandman” Pemberton, hailing from nearby New Bedford, MA, was involved in a great 12ویں گول, come-from-behind knockout of always-tough Omar Sheika in a rematch of a previous draw, for a regional super middleweight title.
Two other N.E. fan favorites who fought regularly at Foxwoods were multiple-time world champion سے Vinny پاز (Pazienza during his boxing career), Cranston کے کی وجہ سے لڑنے, RI, and New Bedford’s all-action “Sucra” Ray Oliveira. Paz had a 13-3 record at Foxwoods, highlighted by his 1998 decision over Glenwood Brown and his 50ویںcareer win in his retirement fight against Tocker Pudwill میں 2004. Oliveira was only 6-7-1 fighting at Foxwoods, but he faced nothing but iron and he did defeat a world champion, Vince Phillips, میں ان کے 2000 non-title fight that produced the second-most total punches (2,989) recorded at that time.
Brazilian boxing fans always turned out in force when countryman Acelino “بٹ” Freitas میں fought at Foxwoods, primarily because of the large Brazilian community in Connecticut. Freitas fought there four times, all in lightweight world title fights, شکست دےظہیر رحیم اور Artur Grigorian اور ہار Juan Diaz اور ڈیاگو corrales کی.
Other great fights at Foxwoods include future world middleweight champion اینڈی لیcoming back from the brink of possibly getting knocked out to stop کریگ McEwan میں 10ویں کے دور ان 2011 جنگ, کارل Froch‘s dramatic late surge in 2009 to knock outJermain ٹیلر (who was well ahead on the scorecards) میں 12ویں round for the WBC super middleweight championship, Pernell وٹیکر taking a close decision fromAndrey Pestryaev (115-113, 115-112, اور 114-113) میں ان کے 1997 WBA eliminator (later ruled a No Decision due to Whitaker’s failed drug test), اور Ike کی Quarteyovercoming two knockdowns to successfully defend his WBA welterweight title versusJose Luis Lopez میں 1997 (Quartey was originally awarded a win by majority decision, but a scoring error was discovered and the fight was ruled a majority draw).
Two of the greatest boxers in modern boxing history, Floyd میں سے Mayweather, جونیئر. اور رائے جونز, جونیئر, both fought at Foxwoods in 1998. میں ان 15ویں pro fight, Mayweather registered a third-round technical knockout of Miguel Melo, while Jones successfully defended his WBC/WBA light heavyweight titles with a 10ویں-کے راؤنڈ TKO وٹس گرانٹ. In the Jones-Grant co-feature, IBF lightweight champion شین Mosley کے successfully defended his title against یشی جیمز Leija, who was unable to answer the bell for the 10ویں گول.
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