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THOMAS HEARNS HEADLINES STAR-LADEN CLASS OF INDUCTEES INTO NEVADA BOXING HALL OF FAME

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Spinks brothers, Michael Carbajal, Erik Morales and Salvador Sanchez are also among the greats to be honored August. 12 im Caesars Palace.
LAS VEGAS – Ex-Weltmeister Thomas Hearns, der zusammen mit Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvelous Marvin Hagler und Roberto Duran dominated boxing in the 1980s and became known collectively as “The Four Kings,” headlines a 14-person class of inductees into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame, Hall CEO/president Michelle Corrales-Lewis announced Wednesday.
Hearns was chosen in the non-Nevada resident boxer category, along with Michael Spinks, Erik Morales, Michael Carbajal, women’s boxing star Lucia Rijker and Salvador Sanchez. Elected in the Nevada resident boxer category was Ken Norton, Leon Spinks and Richie Sandoval.
Chosen in the non-boxer category were referee Davey Pearl, public relations specialist Debbie Munch, promoter Mel Greb, trainer/cut man Rafael Garcia and Nevada Athletic Commission chair Dr. Elias Ghanem.
Norton, Sanchez, Greb and Ghanem will be inducted posthumously.
The members of the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame’s star-studded fifth-induction class will be honored at a gala dinner at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Samstag, August. 12. Ticket will be released Thursday, February 16th at 12pm on NVBHOF.com .
“We are very proud of this class of inductees, and it contains some of the greatest fighters who ever lived,” Corrales-Lewis said. “I’m looking forward to our gala dinner when we can honor these richly deserving people and allow their fans to say hello.”
Hearns was one of the standouts during the 1980s and participated in a series of great bouts in Las Vegas with Leonard, Hagler and Duran. Seine 1985 bout with Hagler at Caesars Palace is still regarded by many as the greatest fight in boxing history.
The Spinks brothers, Michael and Leon, become the first set of brothers inducted into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame. Both won gold medals for the U.S. am 1976 Olympics in Montreal and then went on to win world titles in the pros.
Norton, known primarily for a series of close bouts with the legendary Muhammad Ali, also competed in one of the great heavyweight title bouts ever. He lost the WBC title by a razor-thin decision to Larry Holmes in 1978, among the finest heavyweight championship fights ever held.
Pearl was among the best referees of all-time and worked more than 70 Meisterschaftskämpfe. He was the referee for both Leon Spinks’ schockierend 1978 upset of Ali as well as for Leonard’s dramatic 14th-round knockout of Hearns in 1981.
Die Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame ist ein IRS 501 (c)3 Wohltätigkeit und alle Spenden sind steuerlich absetzbar. Die wohltätigen Beiträge der Halle in den fünf Jahren seit ihrer Gründung haben Boxern in Not und boxbezogenen Wohltätigkeitsorganisationen geholfen. Spenden sind willkommen.
Die Halle wurde gegründet in 2013 von dem bekannten Boxsender Rich Marotta.
Weitere Informationen, phone 702-3NVBHOF, oder 702-368-2463.
BIOGRAPHIES OF THE NEW HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
Michael Carbajal – Best known as the first junior flyweight to earn a $1 million purse, Carbajal won world titles at junior flyweight and flyweight. Bekannt als “Little Hands of Stone” for his punching power, Carbajal was 49-4 mit 33 KOs.
His rivalry with Humberto “Zierlich” Gonzalez was one of the best of the early 1990s and their 1993 fight was The Ring Magazine Fight of the Year. In 2004, The Ring named Carbajal as the best junior flyweight in history.
Er war 98-10 as an amateur and won a silver medal at the 1988 Olympische Spiele in Seoul, Südkorea.
Thomas Hearns – Hearns, 58, won recognized world titles at welterweight, Superweltergewicht, Mittelgewicht, super middleweight and light heavyweight during a career in which he went 61-5-1 mit 48 KOs.
He’s most remembered for his savage three-round battle with Hagler in 1985, but he participated in many of the decade’s biggest and most electric bouts. He fought in Las Vegas 16 mal, Gehen 11-4-1 mit neun Knockouts.
Erik Morales – One of the most exciting fighters of the early part of the 2000s, Morales is best known for his series of outstanding fights with arch rival Marco Antonio Barrera. Morales went 52-9 mit 36 knockouts but is best known for his trilogy with Barrera, two of which were named Ring Fight of the year.
Morales won major world titles at super bantamweight, Federgewicht, super featherweight and super lightweight, becoming the first Mexican born fighter to win titles in four weight classes.
He also engaged in a spectacular trilogy with Manny Pacquiao, beating him in the first and dropping the last two.
Ken Norton – Though he was the heavyweight champion before losing his belt to Larry Holmes in one of the great title bouts ever, Norton was best known for his three fights with the legendary Muhammad Ali. Norton defeated Ali in 1973 in San Diego in their first bout, breaking Ali’s jaw.
Ali won the two subsequent bouts, einschließlich ein 1976 match at Yankee Stadium for the title. Some observers believe Norton deserved to win all three fights.
The Holmes fight was sensational and the two men stood in the center of the ring at Caesars and slugged it out in the 15th und letzten Runde.
Lucia Rijker – Rijker is regarded as one of, if not the best, women boxers in history. She was 17-0 mit 14 knockouts in boxing and was 37-0-1 mit 25 knockouts as a kick boxer.
In her boxing career, she scored dominant wins over the likes of Jane Couch, Marcela Acuna and Chevelle Hallback.
She later appeared in the Oscar-winning film, “Million Dollar Baby.“
Salvador Sanchez – Sanchez tragically died in an auto accident in Mexico at just 23 Jahre alt, robbing the world of one of the elite fighters in history well before his time. Sanchez was 44-1-1 mit 32 knockouts and was the lineal featherweight champion from 1980 until his death in 1982.
He won the title by knocking out Danny “Bisschen rot” Lopez, but is best known for a dominating eighth-round stoppage of Wilfredo Gomez. Gomez was 33-0 mit 32 knockouts but was no match for Sanchez.
Richie Sandoval – Sandoval held the bantamweight title for two years, but his career, as great as it was, is a question of what might have been. Er war ein Mitglied des 1980 U.S.. Olympische Boxmannschaft, but he lost his chance at a medal when President Carter decided to boycott the Games in Moscow.
Sandoval won the first 29 fights of his pro career, racking up 17 Knockouts, and beat the great Jeff Chandler for the bantamweight belt.
But tragically, Sandoval suffered serious boxing related injuries in a 1986 bout with Gaby Canizales and was forced to retire.
Leon Spinks – Spinks is most known for upsetting Muhammad Ali in 1978 in just his eighth pro fight to win the heavyweight championship. He lost the title in a rematch and failed in two other attempts to win a title. He was stopped by Larry Holmes in a heavyweight title fight in 1981 and lost a cruiserweight title challenge in Reno to Dwight Muhammad Qawi in 1986.
A colorful figure known as “Neon” Leon, he was an acclaimed amateur who was 178-7 mit 133 KOs and the light heavyweight gold at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal.
He finished his professional career with a 26-17-3 mark and 14 KOs.
Michael Spinks – Spinks was 31-1 in his career and won both the light heavyweight and heavyweight titles. He moved up from light heavyweight to defeat Larry Holmes at the Riviera in 1985, denying Holmes the opportunity to go 49-0 and match Rocky Marciano’s record.
He won the light heavyweight title in his 17th pro fight in 1981 at the Imperial Palace in Las Vegas when he bested the much more experienced Eddie Mustafa Muhammad. Spinks held the light heavyweight title for four years, before giving it up to move to heavyweight to fight Holmes.
A 1976 Olympiasieger, Spinks‘ only pro loss came in his final fight when he was knocked out by Mike Tyson in a bout for the undisputed heavyweight title.
NON-BOXER INDUCTEE BIOGRAPHIES
Rafael Garcia – Garcia, 87, is best known for his cap he wears festooned with pins and for working as Floyd Mayweather’s hand wrapper. But he had a long career as both a cut man and a trainer and was outstanding at both. He worked with elite fighters such as Mayweather, Roberto Duran, Alexis Arguello and Wilfredo Gomez.
Dr. Elias Ghanem – Ghanem as the long-time chairman of the Nevada Athletic Commission, and was responsible for helping it to earn the moniker, “The greatest commission in the world.”
Ghanem, a physician whose patients once included Elvis Presley, played a key role in the hearings after Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield, and also was instrumental in bringing the Oscar De La Hoya-Felix Trinidad bout to Las Vegas in 1999.
Mel Greb – Bekannt als “The father of professional boxing in Southern Nevada,” Greb was a promoter and matchmaker who first brought Muhammad Ali to Nevada. Then known as Cassius Clay, Greb promoted Ali’s seventh pro fight in 1961. That week, he introduced Ali to wrestler “Gorgeous” George, and Ali patterned himself after George in many ways.
Greb died in 1996 bei 75 Jahre alt.
Debbie Munch – Caesars Palace in Las Vegas was a legendary host for many of boxing’s biggest fights in the 1980s and early 1990s, and Munch, a public relations expert, was instrumental in it.
She was widely respected by promoters, boxers and the media and helped many journalists immeasurably with their boxing coverage.
Davey Pearl – Pearl was small of stature, but was a giant as a referee. He worked more than 70 Weltmeistertitelkämpfe, including Muhammad Ali-Leon Spinks and Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns.
Pearl was also a highly regarded judge.
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NEVADA BOXING HALL OF FAME BEKANNTGABE DER FÜNFTEN KLASSE VON AUFGEFÜHRTEN AM 2. FEBRUAR. 15 In Las Vegas

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Begrüßung durch CEO/Präsidentin Michelle Corrales-Lewis “außergewöhnlich” neue Klasse
LAS VEGAS (Februar 13, 2017) – Die Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame wird seine fünfte Klasse von Eingeweihten bekannt geben Mittwoch, Februar. 15, bei 11 a.m. PST, Hall CEO/ Präsident Michelle Corrales-Lewis angekündigt. Die 2017 Klasse von neun Boxern und fünf Mitwirkenden wird aufgedeckt Echtes Boxen, 5137 Die. Oquendo Rd., Las Vegas, NV 89118. Das Mittagessen wird von gestellt Rib Crib von TC.
Die Geehrten werden beim beliebten Gala-Dinner feierlich eingeweiht Samstag, August. 12 im Caesars Palace. Ticketinformationen werden in Kürze veröffentlicht.
“Wir haben eine weitere außergewöhnliche Klasse von Rekruten gewählt und ich kann es kaum erwarten, sie vorzustellen,” sagte Corrales-Lewis, deren verstorbener Mann, Diego Corrales, war Mitglied der Gründungsklasse des NVBHOF in 2013. “Wir haben einige der besten Boxer aller Zeiten in dieser Gruppe und ich weiß, dass die Fans begeistert sein werden, die Gelegenheit zu haben, sie zu treffen.
“Unsere Klasse von Mitwirkenden ist ebenfalls sehr stark und alle haben das Boxen in Nevada maßgeblich geprägt.”
Zu den ehemaligen Eingeweihten gehören einige der größten Kämpfer, die je gelebt haben, einschließlich Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Roberto Duran, Julio Cesar Chavez, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis und mehr.
Die Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame ist ein IRS 501 (c)3 Wohltätigkeit und alle Spenden sind steuerlich absetzbar. Die wohltätigen Beiträge der Halle in den fünf Jahren seit ihrer Gründung haben Boxern in Not und boxbezogenen Wohltätigkeitsorganisationen geholfen. Spenden sind willkommen.

Die Halle wurde gegründet in 2013 von dem bekannten Boxsender Rich Marotta. Weitere Informationen, Telefon 702-3NVBHOF, oder 702-368-2463.
Kontakt für Medienanmeldeinformationen: Für Informationen und Fördermöglichkeiten Kontakt:
Medienkoordinator Jon Hait Chief Executive Officer Michelle Corrales-Lewis
Telefon: (702) 277-1020 Telefon: 702-3-NVBHOF (702-368-2463)
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MICHELLE CORRALES-LEWIS Named New CEO / President of the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame

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LAS VEGAS, NV (Oktober 5, 2016) – Die Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame (NVBHOF) a non-profit charitable organization which donates to boxing-related causes, is happy to announce Michelle Corrales-Lewis as its new CEO/President. Respected boxing announcer, Rich Marotta, who founded the NVBHOF in 2012, steps down after devoting years of his life to get the organization off the ground.
With a number of boxing greats already inducted, which include world champion fighters, judges, coaches and promoters, the NVBHOF has rapidly established itself as prestigious group not only here in Las Vegas, but around the world. The NVBHOF has multiple fundraising events throughout the year, helping local boxing organizations fulfill their goals to keep boxing alive within the community.
“I took this organization as far as I could and I’m very comfortable where it is at today,” said Rich Marotta. “Michelle is on the scene in Las Vegas, has a myriad of contacts, both in business and with the boxing community, especially the fighters, and is more than ready to completely run the company. She is incredibly capable and has been an indefatigable agent for growth of the NVBHOF the past three years, taking on additional responsibilities each and every year. It brings me great pleasure to announce her as the new CEO of the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame.”
After serving as the NVBHOF Chief Operating Officer for many years, Michelle Corrales-Lewis, is thrilled at her new position within the organization.
“It’s an honor to be chosen as the new CEO of the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame,” said Michelle Corrales-Lewis, widow of former multiple world champion and 2013 NVBHOF inductee, Diego Corrales. “Rich Marotta did a fantastic job building the organization from ground up. His immense work ethic is a great example of how I plan to continue the vision he set forth. My goal is to find a home for the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame, one where fans from all around the world can visit on regular basis. The boxing community is filled with wonderful people that we will honor as inductees each year. I’m truly grateful for the wonderful opportunity that has been presented to me by my dear friend Rich Marotta.”
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Raging Babe Soiree benefiting the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame on April 29 in Las Vegas

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Las Vegas (April 22, 2015) – Die tobende Babe Soiree: Erreichen neuer Höhen präsentiert von RAGING BABE will take place on April 29, 2015, nur drei Tage vor dem Kampf des Jahrhunderts, Mayweather gegen Pacquiao. Über 100 der angesehensten und einflussreichsten Frauen des Boxens wurden zu dieser exklusiven Veranstaltung eingeladen. Die Raging Babe Soiree findet im statt Chayo mexikanische Küche + Tequila Bar, befindet sich in der Linq Promenade in Las Vegas. Nach dem Abendessen, Die Frauen des Boxens genießen an Bord des höchsten Riesenrads der Welt die beste Aussicht auf Las Vegas, der High Roller, der verfügt 28 kugelförmige Passagierkabinen für bis zu 40 Passagiere jeweils, und wird jede Nacht mit dynamischen mehrfarbigen LED-Lichtern beleuchtet. Zum Abschluss der Nacht mit benutzerdefinierten Cupcakes von Sprinkles Cupcakes.

“Ich bin erstaunt, wie weit diese Veranstaltung gekommen ist,” sagte Michelle Rosado, CEO von Raging Babe. “Es gab nur etwa 30 lädt zu unserer ersten Veranstaltung in ein 2013 und jetzt, zwei Jahre später, wir haben vorbei 100 Eingeladene und dies ist unsere Nacht’ um unsere Erfolge zu feiern. Bei jeder Veranstaltung bemühen wir uns, ein starkes Netzwerk und Kameradschaft unter diesen erstaunlichen Frauen im professionellen Boxen aufzubauen. Es ist etwas, das nicht dupliziert werden kann.”

Der Preisträger der Veranstaltung ist Michelle Corrales-Lewis, COO der Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame und Witwe des Champion Boxers, Diego “Junge” Corrales.

Hosting wird sein Jackie Kallen, “Die First Lady of Boxing” und Boxing Insider Korrespondent. “Ich freue mich sehr, wieder mit Michelle Rosado zusammenzuarbeiten, um das erste weibliche Box-Event des Kampfwochenendes auszurichten. Es ist eine Freude, etwas zu tun, das dem NVBHOF zugute kommt und den Frauen in einem Boxen eine eigene Veranstaltung bietet,” erklärte Kallen.

Neben der Ehrung von Michelle Corrales-Lewis, Raging Babe spendet einen Prozentsatz aller finanziellen Beiträge von Event-Sponsoren an die Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame-Organisation. Die NVBHOF ist eine gemeinnützige Organisation, die stolz darauf ist, den Boxsport zu ehren und die Leistungen ihrer Mitglieder zu feiern. NVBHOF unterstützt auch mehrere Community-Programme, Amateur-Boxclubs, College-Boxprogramme und verschiedene Ursachen im Zusammenhang mit dem Boxen. Um mehr zu lernen, besuchen Sie bitte www.nvbhof.com.

Sponsor dieser wunderbaren Veranstaltung ist der World Boxing Council (www.wbcboxing.com), Champs Boxen & Fitness-Club (www.champsboxingclub.org), 3-Punkt Tequila, DJ Nina9 (www.nina9.com), Streut Cupcakes (www.sprinkles.com), Chayo mexikanische Küche + Tequila Bar (www.chayolv.com), und Ramblin Ralph.

Abgesehen von der Ringansage, Das Hauptziel von RAMBLIN RALPH ist es, Box-Superstars und Interessenten gleichermaßen zu schützen, zusammen mit ihren Familien, außerhalb des Rings. RAMBLIN RALPH hat sich mit den größten Sportagenturen zusammengetan, um Programme für Boxer wie 401k anzubieten, die Pension, und Lebensversicherung. Er vermittelt auch Angebote für Branding, Lizenz- und Werbemöglichkeiten bei den größten Unternehmen der Welt. Das Ziel von RAMBLIN RALPH ist es, die Zeit eines Boxers im Ring zu verkürzen, und erhöhen ihr Portfolio außerhalb des Rings. Weitere Informationen erhalten Sie unter RAMBLIN RALPH unter 602-695-5798 oder per E-Mail an ralphvelezjr@gmail.com.

Für weitere Informationen und / oder um Sponsor der Raging Babe Soiree zu werden – Neue Höhen erreichen, Kontaktieren Sie Michelle Rosado unter michelle@ragingbabe.com.