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5th annual New York State Boxing Hall of Fame Class of 2016 inducted in festive ceremony

Dosbarth NYSBHOF o 2015
Bocswyr
pencampwr pwysau welter y Byd (’90-91) Aaron “Superman” Davis, Bronx
pencampwr pwysau welter iau Byd (’93-94) Charles “Mae'r Naturiol” Murray Buffalo
Dau-amser cystadleuydd byd teitl ysgafn Vilomar Fernandez Bronx
Byd cystadleuydd teitl ysgafn Edwin Viruet. Dinas Efrog Newydd
(Ymadawedig)
4-amser, 3-bencampwr byd is-adran Hector “macho” Camacho Spanish Harlem
hyrwyddwr Canol y Byd (1952) Rocky Graziano Brooklyn
byd ysgafn (’25-26) titlist Rocky Kansas Buffalo
2-amser titleholder Pwysau Bantam y byd Joe Lynch Brooklyn
“pencampwr pwysau welter Uncrowned” Joe Miceli Buffalo
Di-Cyfranogwyr
Neuadd Bocsio Rhyngwladol cyfarwyddwr gweithredol Enwogion Ed Brophy CANASTOTA
Hyrwyddwr Joe DeGuardia Bronx
Comisiynydd / personoliaeth cyfryngau Randy Gordon Melville
Hyrwyddwr / rheolwr Dennis Rappaport Breninesau
(Ymadawedig)
Rheolwr Howie Albert Bronx
Hyfforddwr / cutman Freddie Brown Manhattan
sylwebydd teledu Dinas Efrog Newydd Howard Cosell Dinas Efrog Newydd
Boxer / canolwr Ruby Goldstein Manhattan
Rheolwr Jimmy Jacobs
Dosbarth NYSBHOF o 2016 (L-R): Seated – Vilomar Fernandez, Dennis Rappaport, Randy Gordon and Ed Brophy; Standing: Aaron Davis and Joe DeGuardia
-Mae'r holl luniau gan Peter Frutkoff-
NEW YORK (Ebrill 5, 2016) – Mae mwy na 300 people packed Russo’s On The Bay in Howard Beach, NY this past Dydd Sul for the fifth annual New York State Boxing Hall of Fame (NYSBHOF) cinio cynefino.
Bydd pob inductee yn derbyn gwregys arfer-gynllunio ddynodi ei sefydlu yn y NYSBHOF. Plaques are on display at the New York State Athletic Commission.
Y 2016 ANG, eu dewis gan aelodau'r pwyllgor enwebu NYSBHOF: Jack Hirsch, Steve Farhood, Bobby Cassidy, Jr., Don Majeski, Henry Hascup, Ron McNair, Angelo Prospero ac neil Terens.
angen i'r holl bocswyr fod yn segur, am o leiaf dair blynedd er mwyn bod yn gymwys ar gyfer y cyfnod sefydlu NYSBHOF, a rhaid i bob ANG, wedi byw yn Efrog Newydd y Wladwriaeth ar gyfer cyfran sylweddol o'u gyrfaoedd bocsio neu yn ystod y prif eu gyrfa perthnasol.
(L-R) – NYSBHOF/Ring 8 llywydd Bob Duffy, Don Majeski, Ed Brophy and Jill Diamond (CLlC)
Ed Brophy:I’d like to thank the committee of the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame and Ring 8, a wonderful group that sponsors the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame. I’m so proud to have been born in New York, in the small town of Canastota, where boxing is in our blood. I’m thrilled to be honored today. My name is attached to the International Boxing Hall of Fame as director, but so many different people help out. I only accept this honor on their behalf. Boxing is the greatest sport. Congratulations to all of the inductees. This is the greatest day of my life.
(L-R) – Ron McNair, Aaron Davis and Bob Duffy
Aaron Davis: Diolch, Ring 8. Boxing is a hard sport. It was much harder in the gym. I saw Gerry Cooney, Iran Barkley ac Roberto Duran and wanted to do what those guys did and it made me a fighter I was. I’d like to thank my father and Billy Giles, who was my trainer. I’d also like to thank Joe DeGuardia, who managed me later in my career, and thanks to everybody who supported me.
(L-R) — Bob Duffy, Dennis Rappaport and family
Dennis Rappaport:It seems like yesterday when a six or seven year old living in Brooklyn watched a fight between Jake LaMotta ac Jim Hairston. This young man was mesmerized. The next month he watchedSugar Ray Robinson knockout Rocky Graziano and that was the start of a love affair that’s lasted 63 flynyddoedd. Bocsio, at its best, is poetry in motion. It’s Shapespeare, Picasso, Rembrandt. But it can also be crude. I started in boxing managing three fighters: Ronnie Harris, Gerry Cooney ac Howard Davis. Jr. Because of the creative marketing of our fighters, one reporter called me and my partner, Mike Jones, ‘The Gold Dust Twinsbut then the media starting calling us, ‘The Wacko Twins.I preferred ‘The Gold Dust Twins.

(L-R – Jack Hirsch, Joe DeGuardia and Bob Duffy
Joe DeGuardia: It’s a real pleasure, honor and privilege to be inducted into the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame. Like many of you here, I live and bleed boxing, which has been a big part of my life. Four months ago, I received the (Ring 8 at its Holiday awards dinner) Promoter of the Year award. I said then that we are truly a family of boxing; it’s a real brotherhood. I also talked about how boxing tied into lire. In that roomnot with us nowwas my father who passed away three weeks ago. Because of him, I developed this love of boxing that I’ve carried in life: work hard to do the best you can in life. I’m truly honored to be inducted into the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame. In honor of my father and everybody else who loves this sport. I accept on behalf of my father who, Yr wyf yn gwybod, is watching us now.
(L-R) – Charles Murray and Bob Duffy
Charles Murray:They called me, ‘The Natural.I appreciate this, being honored for my contributions to boxing. Thank you very much.
(L-R) – Steve Farhood, Vilomar Fernandez and Bob Duffy
Vilomar Fernandez: “It wasn’t easy fighting guys like Roberto Duran and Alexis Arguello. They were the best in the world. I’m thankful for the opportunities to fight them, I’m honored today.
(L-R) – Henry Hascup, Randy Gordon, Melvina Lathan, Bob Duffy and Gerry Cooney
Randy Gordon: “Diolch yn fawr, pawb. This amazing event we have every year, I never expected this would happen. My career was born out of the aches of one of boxing’s biggest scandals, the US Championships on ABC, hyrwyddir gan Don Brenin, and Ring Magazine produced the ratings for the tournament. It turned out the ratings and some of the records were padded and it just about knocked Ring Magazine out of business. Bert Randolph Siwgr hired me to be its Editor In Chief. Gweithio gyda'n gilydd, we brought Ring Magazine back from the dead. I burst into tears when Jack Hirsch called to tell me I was being inducted into the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame. This is an absolute dream. Anybody who has ever or will ever be inducted into any hall of fame, nobody can possibly enjoy this more than me. I love boxing with every ounce of my body. My wife and family drive me back into boxing. This is the greatest honor. I can’t get enough of boxing. I’m truly the luckiest man ever placed on this planet.
(L-R) – Ed Brophy, Don Majeski, Jack Hirsch and Joe DeGuardia
NYSAC Executive Director Dave Berlin and Harold Lederman
(L-R) – Joe DeGuardia and NYSBHOF/Ring 8 llywydd Bob Duffy
DOSBARTH o 2012: Carmen Basilio, Mike McCallum, Mike Tyson, Jake LaMotta, Riddick Bowe, Carlos Ortiz, Vito Antuofermo, Emile Griffith, “Siwgr” Ray Robinson, Gene Tunney, Benny Leonard, Tony Canzoneri, Harold Lederman, Steve Acunto, Jimmy Glenn, Gil Clancy, Ray Arcel, Nat Fleischer, Bill Gallo ac Arthur Mercante, Sr.
DOSBARTH o 2013: Jack Dempsey, Johnny Dundee, Sandy Saddler, Maxie Rosenbloom, Joey Archer, Iran Barkley, Mark Breland, Bobby Cassidy, Doug Jones, Iau Jones, James “Buddy” McGirt, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Bob Arum, Shelly Finkel, Tony Graziano, Larry Merchant, Teddy Brenner, Mike Jacobs, Tex Rickard a Don Dunphy.
DOSBARTH 2014: Floyd Patterson, Tracy Harris Patterson, Billy Backus, Kevin Kelley, Juan LaPorte, Gerry Cooney, Mustafa Hamsho, Howard Davis, Jr, Lou ambr, Jack Britton, Terry McGovern, Teddy Atlas, Lou DiBella, Steve Farhood, Gene Moore, Angelo Prospero, Whitey Bimstein, Cus D'Amato, William Muldoon a Tom O'Rourke.
DOSBARTH 2015: Saul Mamby, Joey Giambra, 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 ac Al Weill.

2016 Class Inductees honored to be going Into New York State Boxing Hall of Fame This Sunday, Ebrill 3, yn Russo Ar y Bae

Hector Camacho, Rocky Graziano, Aaron Davis a phen Howard Cosell 2016 dosbarth
NEW YORK (Mawrth 29, 2016) – The fifth annual New York State Boxing Hall of Fame (NYSBHOF) cinio cynefino, noddwyd gan Ring 8, will be held this Dydd Sul prynhawn (Ebrill 312:30-5:30 p.m.) yn Russo yn On The Bay ym Traeth Howard, Efrog Newydd.
Dosbarth NYSBHOF o 2015
Bocswyr
pencampwr pwysau welter y Byd (’90-91) Aaron “Superman” Davis Bronx
pencampwr pwysau welter iau Byd (’93-94) Charles “Mae'r Naturiol” Murray Buffalo
Dau-amser cystadleuydd byd teitl ysgafn Vilomar Fernandez Bronx
Byd cystadleuydd teitl ysgafn Edwin Viruet. Dinas Efrog Newydd
(Ymadawedig)
4-amser, 3-bencampwr byd is-adran Hector “macho” Camacho Spanish Harlem
hyrwyddwr Canol y Byd (1952) Rocky Graziano Brooklyn
byd ysgafn (’25-26) titlist Rocky Kansas Buffalo
2-amser titleholder Pwysau Bantam y byd Joe Lynch Brooklyn
“pencampwr pwysau welter Uncrowned” Joe Miceli Buffalo
Di-Cyfranogwyr
Neuadd Bocsio Rhyngwladol cyfarwyddwr gweithredol Enwogion Ed Brophy CANASTOTA
Hyrwyddwr Joe DeGuardia Bronx
Comisiynydd / personoliaeth cyfryngau Randy Gordon Melville
Hyrwyddwr / rheolwr Dennis Rappaport Breninesau
(Ymadawedig)
Rheolwr Howie Albert Bronx
Hyfforddwr / cutman Freddie Brown Manhattan
sylwebydd teledu Dinas Efrog Newydd Howard Cosell Dinas Efrog Newydd
Boxer / canolwr Ruby Goldstein Manhattan
Rheolwr Jimmy Jacobs Dinas Efrog Newydd
Randy Gordon:What a journey this has been from boxing fan to boxing writerto boxing announcerto boxing commissionerto boxing promoterto boxing talk show host….to the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame. If I’m dreaming, I don’t want to wake up!”
Dennis Rappaport:It is with the utmost pleasure and profound appreciation to be inducted into the NYSBHOF with such a class of distinguished honorees. At the age of six, I watched my first fight between Jake LaMotta and Gene Harston. I was so captivated and mesmerized by the sport that it began my 63 year love affair with boxing. From the bottom of my heat, I would like to thank each and every member of the boxing fraternity for a lifetime filled with magical moments and unforgettable memories.
Ed Brophy:This is a wonderful honor that truly caught me by surprise. I am humbled by this acknowledgement and thank the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame.
Joe DeGuardia: “I am honored to be recognized and included among the past and present boxing luminaries inducted into the prestigious New York State Boxing Hall of Fame.
Bydd pob inductee yn derbyn gwregys arfer-gynllunio ddynodi ei sefydlu yn y NYSBHOF. Plaques are on display at the New York State Athletic Commission.
Y 2016 ANG, eu dewis gan aelodau'r pwyllgor enwebu NYSBHOF: Jack Hirsch, Steve Farhood, Bobby Cassidy, Jr., Don Majeski, Henry Hascup, Ron McNair, Angelo Prospero ac neil Terens.
angen i'r holl bocswyr fod yn segur, am o leiaf dair blynedd er mwyn bod yn gymwys ar gyfer y cyfnod sefydlu NYSBHOF, a rhaid i bob ANG, wedi byw yn Efrog Newydd y Wladwriaeth ar gyfer cyfran sylweddol o'u gyrfaoedd bocsio neu yn ystod y prif eu gyrfa perthnasol.
DOSBARTH o 2012: Carmen Basilio, Mike McCallum, Mike Tyson, Jake LaMotta, Riddick Bowe, Carlos Ortiz, Vito Antuofermo, Emile Griffith, “Siwgr” Ray Robinson, Gene Tunney, Benny Leonard, Tony Canzoneri, Harold Lederman, Steve Acunto, Jimmy Glenn, Gil Clancy, Ray Arcel, Nat Fleischer, Bill Gallo ac Arthur Mercante, Sr.
DOSBARTH o 2013: Jack Dempsey, Johnny Dundee, Sandy Saddler, Maxie Rosenbloom, Joey Archer, Iran Barkley, Mark Breland, Bobby Cassidy, Doug Jones, Iau Jones, James “Buddy” McGirt, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Bob Arum, Shelly Finkel, Tony Graziano, Larry Merchant, Teddy Brenner, Mike Jacobs, Tex Rickard a Don Dunphy.
DOSBARTH 2014: Floyd Patterson, Tracy Harris Patterson, Billy Backus, Kevin Kelley, Juan LaPorte, Gerry Cooney, Mustafa Hamsho, Howard Davis, Jr, Lou ambr, Jack Britton, Terry McGovern, Teddy Atlas, Lou DiBella, Steve Farhood, Gene Moore, Angelo Prospero, Whitey Bimstein, Cus D'Amato, William Muldoon a Tom O'Rourke.
DOSBARTH 2015: Saul Mamby, Joey Giambra, 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 ac Al Weill.
Mae tocynnau cyfyngedig ar gael o hyd, Pris $150.00 yr oedolyn a $60.00 ar gyfer plant (dan 16), which includes a complete brunch and cocktail hour upon entry, gan ddechrau am 12:30 p.m. A, yn ogystal ag cinio (prif asen, pysgod neu ddofednod) and open bar throughout the event. Mae tocynnau ar gael i'w prynu drwy ffonio NYSBHOF / Ring 8 llywydd Bob Duffy yn 516.313.2304. Ewch ar-lein yn www.Ring8ny.com am wybodaeth ychwanegol am y Bocsio Hall Talaith Efrog Newydd yr Enwogion.

Efrog Newydd Hall Bocsio Wladwriaeth o docynnau cinio Enwogion Sefydlu gwerthu'n gyflym Dydd Sul, Ebrill 3 yn Russo Ar y Bae

Hector Camacho, Rocky Graziano, Aaron Davis a phen Howard Cosell 2016 dosbarth
NEW YORK (Mawrth 23, 2016) – Tocynnau'n gwerthu'n gyflym am y pumed blynyddol Talaith Efrog Newydd Bocsio Neuadd yr Enwogion (NYSBHOF) cinio cynefino, noddwyd gan Ring 8, Dydd Sul prynhawn (12:30-5:30 p.m. A), Ebrill 3, yn Russo yn On The Bay ym Traeth Howard, Efrog Newydd.
Dosbarth NYSBHOF o 2016
Bocswyr
pencampwr pwysau welter y Byd (’90-91) Aaron “Superman” Davis Bronx
pencampwr pwysau welter iau Byd (’93-94) Charles “Mae'r Naturiol” Murray Buffalo
Dau-amser cystadleuydd byd teitl ysgafn Vilomar Fernandez Bronx
Byd cystadleuydd teitl ysgafn Edwin Viruet. Dinas Efrog Newydd
(Ymadawedig)
4-amser, 3-bencampwr byd is-adran Hector “macho” Camacho Spanish Harlem
hyrwyddwr Canol y Byd (1952) Rocky Graziano Brooklyn
byd ysgafn (’25-26) titlist Rocky Kansas Buffalo
2-amser titleholder Pwysau Bantam y byd Joe Lynch Brooklyn
“pencampwr pwysau welter Uncrowned” Joe Miceli Buffalo
Di-Cyfranogwyr
Neuadd Bocsio Rhyngwladol cyfarwyddwr gweithredol Enwogion Ed Brophy CANASTOTA
Hyrwyddwr Joe DeGuardia Bronx
Comisiynydd / personoliaeth cyfryngau Randy Gordon Melville
Hyrwyddwr / rheolwr Dennis Rappaport Breninesau
(Ymadawedig)
Rheolwr Howie Albert Bronx
Hyfforddwr / cutman Freddie Brown Manhattan
sylwebydd teledu Dinas Efrog Newydd Howard Cosell Dinas Efrog Newydd
Boxer / canolwr Ruby Goldstein Manhattan
Rheolwr Jimmy Jacobs Dinas Efrog Newydd
Bydd pob inductee yn derbyn gwregys arfer-gynllunio ddynodi ei sefydlu yn y NYSBHOF. Plaques are on display at the New York State Athletic Commission.
Y 2016 cwblhau cyfnod sefydlu yn eu dewis gan aelodau'r pwyllgor enwebu NYSBHOF: Jack Hirsch, Steve Farhood, Bobby Cassidy, Jr., Don Majeski, Henry Hascup, Ron McNair, Angelo Prospero ac neil Terens.
angen i'r holl bocswyr fod yn segur, am o leiaf dair blynedd er mwyn bod yn gymwys ar gyfer y cyfnod sefydlu NYSBHOF, a rhaid i bob ANG, wedi byw yn Efrog Newydd y Wladwriaeth ar gyfer cyfran sylweddol o'u gyrfaoedd bocsio neu yn ystod y prif eu gyrfa perthnasol.
DOSBARTH o 2012: Carmen Basilio, Mike McCallum, Mike Tyson, Jake LaMotta, Riddick Bowe, Carlos Ortiz, Vito Antuofermo, Emile Griffith, “Siwgr” Ray Robinson, Gene Tunney, Benny Leonard, Tony Canzoneri, Harold Lederman, Steve Acunto, Jimmy Glenn, Gil Clancy, Ray Arcel, Nat Fleischer, Bill Gallo ac Arthur Mercante, Sr.
DOSBARTH o 2013: Jack Dempsey, Johnny Dundee, Sandy Saddler, Maxie Rosenbloom, Joey Archer, Iran Barkley, Mark Breland, Bobby Cassidy, Doug Jones, Iau Jones, James “Buddy” McGirt, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Bob Arum, Shelly Finkel, Tony Graziano, Larry Merchant, Teddy Brenner, Mike Jacobs, Tex Rickard a Don Dunphy.
DOSBARTH 2014: Floyd Patterson, Tracy Harris Patterson, Billy Backus, Kevin Kelley, Juan LaPorte, Gerry Cooney, Mustafa Hamsho, Howard Davis, Jr, Lou ambr, Jack Britton, Terry McGovern, Teddy Atlas, Lou DiBella, Steve Farhood, Gene Moore, Angelo Prospero, Whitey Bimstein, Cus D'Amato, William Muldoon a Tom O'Rourke.
DOSBARTH 2015: Saul Mamby, Joey Giambra, 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 ac Al Weill.
Pris y tocynnau yw $150.00 yr oedolyn a $60.00 ar gyfer plant (dan 16), ac yn cynnwys brecinio gyflawn ac awr coctel wrth gyrraedd, gan ddechrau am12:30 PM/A, yn ogystal ag cinio (prif asen, pysgod neu ddofednod) and open bar throughout the evening. Mae tocynnau ar gael i'w prynu drwy ffonio NYSBHOF / Ring 8 llywydd Bob Duffy yn 516.313.2304. Hysbysebion ar gyfer y rhaglen NYSBHOF ar gael, yn amrywio o $50.00 i $250.00, drwy gysylltu â Duffy. Ewch ar-lein yn www.Ring8ny.com am wybodaeth ychwanegol am y Bocsio Hall Talaith Efrog Newydd yr Enwogion.
CYSWLLT:
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