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New York State Boxing Hall of Fame Announces Class of 2019

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Sa Domingo, Abril 28, Induction Dinner

Don King, Jimmy Cannon, Jimmy Carter & Wilfredo Benitez
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NEW YORK (Enero 30, 2019) – The New York State Boxing Hall of Fame (NYSBHOF) has announced its 24-member Class of 2019. The eighth annual NYSBHOF induction dinner will be heldSunday afternoon (12:30-5:30 sa gabii. UG), Abril 28, sa Russo ni On Ang Bay sa Howard Beach, New York.

“We’re excited to continue honoring New Yorkers who helped boxing throughout the entire Empire State,” NYSBHOF president Bob Duffy said. “This year’s inductees did so much to help boxing in New York, whether they were fighters or non-participants. Our goal is to continue to honor New Yorkers in boxing for many more years.”

Living boxers heading into the NYSBHOF include (Bronx-born) three-time, two-division world championWilfredo Benitez (53-8-1, 31 KOs), Canastota welterweightDick DiVeronica (44-13-1, 13 KOs), (Hempstead) WBO super featherweight world champion Rogelio Tuur (46-4-1, 30 KOs), (Bronx) 1968 U.S. OlympianDavey Vasquez (19-15, 6 KOs), WBO super middleweight world title challengerMichael Olajide (27-5, 19 KOs), of Manhattan, ug Queens’ world heavyweight title challengerMonte Barrett (35-11-2, 20 KOs).

Posthumous participants being inducted are (Bronx) three-time lightweight world champion Jimmy Carter (84-31-9, 34 KOs), Brooklyn welterweightAl “Bummy” Davis (65-10-4, 46 KOs), (Schenectady) world welterweight championMarty Servo (47-4-2, 14 KOs), (Bronx) world heavyweight title challengerRoland LaStarza (57-9, 27 KOs), Brooklyn world lightweight championPaddy DeMarco (75-26-3, 8 KOs) and Manhattan’s Lower East Side lightweightsSid Terris (94-13-5, 12 KOs) ugLeach “The Fighting Dentist” Cross (35-10-4, 22 KOs).

Living non-participants heading into the NYSBHOF are New York City-based promoterDon King, Flushing judgeJuan McKaie, Brooklyn sportscasterSteve Albert, refereeArthur Mercante, Jr., and Bronx trainerBob Jackson.

Posthumous non-participant inductees are Utica matchmakerDewey Fragetta, Crown, Queens refereeJohnny LoBianco, Garden City refereeWayne Kelly, Flushing sportsmanHarry Hill, award-winning journalistJimmy Cannon, of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, and NYSAC official/former NABF presidentJoe Dwyer, sa Brooklyn.

Each attending inductee (o direkta nga kaliwat sa) will receive a custom-designed belt signifying his or her induction into the NYSBHOF.

Ang 2019 inductees gipili sa NYSBHOF nominating mga membro sa komite: Randy Gordon, Henry Hascup, Don Majeski, Ron McNair, ugNeil Terens.

All boxers needed to be inactive for at least three years to be eligible for NYSBHOF induction, and all inductees must have resided in New York State for a significant portion of their boxing careers or during the prime of their respective career.

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CLASS of 2012: Carmen Basilio, Mike McCallum, Mike Tyson, Jake LaMotta, Riddick Bowe, Carlos Ortiz, Vito Antuofermo, Emile Griffith, “Sugar” Ray Robinson, Gene Tunney, Benny Leonard, Tony Canzoneri, Harold Lederman, Steve Acunto, Jimmy Glenn, Gil Clancy, Ray Arcel, Nat Fleischer, Bill Gallo ug Arthur Mercante, Sr.

CLASS of 2013: Jack Dempsey, Johnny Dundee, Sandy montura sa, Maxie Rosenbloom, Joey Archer, Iran Barkley, Mark Breland, Bobby Cassidy, Doug Jones, Junior Jones, Santiago “Buddy” McGirt, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Bob Arum, Shelly Finkel, Tony Graziano, Larry Merchant, Teddy Brenner, Mike Jacobs, Tex Rickard and Don Dunphy.

CLASS OF 2014: Floyd Patterson, Tracy Harris Patterson, Billy Backus, Kevin Kelley, Juan LaPorte, Gerry Tabang, Mustafa Hamsho, Howard Davis, Jr., Lou Ambers, Jack Britton, Terry McGovern, Teddy Atlas, Lou DiBella, Steve Farhood, Gene Moore, Angelo Prospero, Whitey Bimstein, Damasco D'Amato, William Muldoon ug Tom O'Rourke.

CLASS OF 2015: Saoul Mamby, Joey Giamba, 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 and Al Weill.

CLASS OF 2016: Aaron Davis, Charles Murray, Vilomar Fernandez, Edwin Viruet, Hector “macho” Camacho, Rocky Graziano, Rocky Kansas, Joe Lynch, Joe Miceli, Ed Brophy, Joe DeGuardia, Randy Gordon, Dennis Rappaport, Howie Albert, Freddie Brown, Howard Cosell, Ruby Goldstein ug Jimmy Jacobs.

CLASS OF 2017: Gaspar Ortega, Renaldo “Mr.” Snipes, Doug DeWitt, “The Bronx Bomber” Alex Ramos, Dick Tiger, Jose Torres, “Nonpareil” Jack Dempsey, Don Majeski, Ron Katz, Stan Hoffman, Bobby Bartels, Hank Kaplan, Al Gavin, Arthur Donovan ug ang Dan Parker.

CLASS OF 2018: Lou “dugos Boy” Walog, Jake Rodriguez, Terrence allí, “Baby” Joe Mesi, Kid Chocolate, Santiago J. “Gentleman Jim” Corbett, Jack McAuliffe, Billy Costello, Melio Bettina Ralph “Tiger” Jones, Charley Norkus, Dave Anderson, Pete Brodsky, Nga balili nga Goldman, Bobby Goodman, Melvina Lathan, Ron Scott Stevens, Johnnie Eidyzhang, Johnny Bos, Murray Goodman, Bert Randolph Sugar and Sam Taub.

Tickets are priced at $125.00 matag hamtong ug $60.00 alang sa mga bata (ubos sa 16) and include a complete brunch and cocktail hour upon entry, sugod sa 12:30 sa gabii. UG, as well as dinner (prime gusok, isda o manok) ug dayag nga bar sa tibuok adlaw. Tickets are available to purchase by contacting NYSBHOF president Bob Duffy at 516.313.2304 odepcomish@aol.com. Ads for the NYSBHOF program are available, gikan sa $80.00 sa $200.00, pinaagi sa pagkontak Duffy. Go on line atwww.Ring8ny.com for additional information about the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame.

ABOUT RING 8: Formed in 1954 pinaagi sa usa ka ex-prizefighter, Jack Grebelsky, Ring 8 became the eighth subsidiary of what was then known as the National Veteran Boxers Association – busa, SINGSING8 – and today the organization’s motto remains: Boksidor Pagtabang sa mga boksidor.

SINGSING 8 is fully committed to supporting less fortunate people in the boxing community who may require assistance in terms of paying rent, medikal nga mga gasto, o bisan unsa sa makataronganong panginahanglan. Lakaw sa linya sawww.Ring8ny.com for more information about RING 8, the largest group of its kind in the United States with more than 350 mga miyembro sa. Tinuig nga membership dues lamang $30.00 and each member is entitled to a buffet dinner at RING 8 binulan nga miting sa, labot ang Hulyo ug Agosto. Ang tanan nga mga aktibo nga boxers, amateur ug propesyonal, are entitled to a complimentary RING 8 tinuig nga mga miyembro. Guests sa Ring 8 members are welcome at a cost of only $7.00 matag tawo. r

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SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® REPORTER JIM GRAY CALLS INDUCTION INTO INTERNATIONAL BOXING HALL OF FAME AN ‘UNLIKELY AND TREMENDOUS HONOR’

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Veteran Reporter Joins Former Play-By-Play Announcer Steve Albert As Sixth From SHOWTIME Sports® Tungod kay 2012 To Be Presented With Boxing’s Highest Honor

NEW YORK (Hunyo 11, 2018) – SHOWTIME Sports® veteran reporter Jim Gray was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame on Sunday in Canastota, N.Y., joining former colleague and longtime SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING play-by-play announcer Steve Albert in receiving boxing’s most prestigious honor.

 

 

 

Gray and Albert became the fifth and sixth SHOWTIME Sports talent enshrined in the Hall of Fame since 2012. They join boxing analyst Al Bernstein (2012), singsing nga tigpahibalo nga si Jimmy Lennon Jr.. (2013), analista ug istoryador nga si Steve Farhood (2017) and play-by-play announcer Barry Tompkins (2017).

 

 

 

In front of a large crowd that included close friends Mike Tyson, Don King, Deontay Wilder, Julius Irving, Jerry Richardson, Stedman Graham, Bob Costas and many others, the 59-year-old Southern California resident Gray reflected on 40-plus years of covering the sport of boxing. “My journey today has been an unlikely one,” Gray said during his induction speech. “The Boxing Hall of Fame immortalized all of these great fighters. So this magnificent honor comes with tremendous humility. How could this happen? I never took a punch.”

 

 

 

Gray, who started with SHOWTIME in 1994, was honored with a Special Individual Achievement Emmy Award – he currently has 12 Emmy’s in total – in 1997 for his interview of Mike Tyson following the heavyweight’s second loss to Evander Holyfield, the infamous “bite fight.” The National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association also named that interview the “Sugilanon sa Broadcast sa Sports nga Tuig.” Dugang pa, the American Sportscasters Association has voted Gray “Sportscaster sa Tuig” sa 1998 and ‘99.

 

 

 

Gray chose Tyson to introduce him on Sunday during the induction ceremony. “It’s ironic,” said Gray. “The man who threatened to kill me in public is now inducting me into the Hall of Fame.”

 

 

 

“This award is way, way overdue,” an emotional Tyson said of his good friend. “I’m very proud of you. Well-deserved.”

 

 

 

With this past weekend’s induction ceremony, SHOWTIME Sports now boasts five current Hall of Famers featured on the network: Gray, Bernstein, Farhood, Tompkins and Lennon Jr.

 

 

 

“I am so pleased for Jim and Steve that they received this great honor,”Ingon ni David Dinkins Jr., Senior Vice President and Executive Producer of SHOWTIME Sports. “Jim Gray’s interviews and reporting have been an integral part of our SHOWTIME telecast from the beginning. Because of his skills and instincts we have been able to cover the events in depth. There have been countless times that Jim’s dogged pursuit of a story has enabled us to paint the complete picture of the event.”

 

 

 

Gray has forged one of the most memorable sports broadcasting careers in recent history, which includes a deep boxing resume. Gray has worked more than 1,200 fights and interviewed over 1,500 fighters throughout his career, lakip 20 of his fellow Hall of Famers, such as Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman and future Hall of Famer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and many others ringside.

 

 

 

Outside of the ring, Gray has covered nearly every sport and landed some of the industry’s most lucrative interviews, including sit-downs with Michael Phelps, Tiger Woods, Tom Brady and Michael Jordan.

 

 

 

Albert spent two decades calling fights for SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING. Albert called more than 300 fights during his tenure with SHOWTIME, lakip na si Julio Cesar Chavez vs.. Greg Haugen sa atubangan sa 130,000 fans sa Azteca Stadium sa Mexico City, Tyson-Holyfield I & II and the epic Corrales vs. Castillo series.

 

 

 

“Steve Albert’s incredible preparation and perfect timing were the reasons for his memorable fight calls,” Dinkins said. “Steve was the voice of SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING through the high profile fights of the Tyson and Chavez eras. He will be forever linked to those shows which helped establish our network as a major broadcaster of boxing.”

 

 

 

Both Gray and Albert earned induction into the Observer category, which recognizes outstanding achievements of print and media journalists, mga magmamantala, magsusulat, mga historyano, mga potograpo ug artista.

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JIM GRAY UG STEVE ALBERT NGA NAPILI SA INTERNATIONAL BOXING HALL OF FAME

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Beterano nga SHOWTIME Sports® Ang Reporter nga si Jim Gray ug ang Dating Play-By-Play Announcer nga si Steve Albert Apil 2018 Klase Dungan sa Vitali Klitschko, Eric Morales ug Ronald "Winky" Wright

SHOWTIME Sports veteran reporter Jim Gray ug kaniadto, dugay na nga tigpahibalo sa pagdula Steve Albert napili sa 2018 klase sa International Boxing Hall of Fame, kini gipahibalo sa Hall kaniadtong Martes.

Si Gray ug Albert nakakuha og induction sa kategorya nga Observer, nga nakaila sa talagsaong mga nahimo sa mga tigbalita sa print ug electronic media, mga sportscasters, mga magmamantala, magsusulat, mga historyano, mga potograpo ug artista. Si Gray ug Albert moapil sa SHOWTIME Sports boxing analis nga si Al Bernstein (2012), singsing nga tigpahibalo nga si Jimmy Lennon Jr.. (2013), analista ug istoryador nga si Steve Farhood (2017) ug tigpahibalo nga si Barry Tompkins (2017) sa International Boxing Hall of Fame.

Kanhi kampeyon sa heavyweight nga si Vitali Klitschko, ang upat nga dibisyon sa kalibutan nga kampeon nga si Eric Morales ug ang wala pa malalis nga super welterweight world champion Ronald "Winky" Wright nga nag-ulohan sa 2018 klase sa induksiyon. Ang bag-ong napili nga klase igatudlo sa panahon sa Hall of Fame Weekend Hunyo 7-10, 2018, sa Canastota, N.Y..

"Kitang tanan sa SHOWTIME Sports nga nagtrabaho kauban sila Jim ug Steve sa daghang katuigan nalipay nga nadawat nila kini nga angayan gyud nga dungog,”Ingon ni David Dinkins Jr., Executive Producer, Showtime Sports. "Parehas nga nakatabang sa paghimo sa SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® franchise. Ang mga interbyu ni Jim nahimo’g klasiko nga drama pagkahuman sa away samtang ang mga tawag sa away ni Steve hinungdanon sa pila ka labing kahinungdan nga mga yugto sa kasaysayan sa boksing. ”

Si Gray usa ka reporter sa SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING gikan pa 1994, ug nakaangkon 11 Emmy Awards sa tibuuk niya nga karera, lakip ang usa alang sa iyang pakighinabi kay Mike Tyson nunot sa bantog nga pagkawala sa mabug-at nga "pagkagat sa away" ni Evander Holyfield. Ang National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association ginganlan usab kana nga pakigsulti sa “Sugilanon sa Broadcast sa Sports nga Tuig.” Dugang pa, ang American Sportscasters Association nagboto kay Gray “Sportscaster sa Tuig” sa 1998 ug 1999.

Sa tibuuk nga upat ka dekada niyang karera isip usa ka reporter, Gitabunan sa abohon ang daghang mga Super Bowl, World Series, Olympics, NBA Finals ug NCAA Final Fours, ug nainterbyu ang kadaghanan sa labing gibantog nga mga pigura sa isports sa kini nga panahon lakip na si Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Kobe Bryant, Tom Brady, Pete Rose, Michael Jordan ug daghan pa.

Usa sa labing maila nga tingog sa isport, Si Albert miapil sa SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING wala madugay pagkahuman sa pagsugod niini sa 1986. Sa usa ka panahon nga naglungtad sa kapin duha ka dekada, nanawag ang bantog nga magsisibya sa tibuuk kalibutan 300 away sa titulo, lakip na si Julio Cesar Chavez vs.. Greg Haugen sa atubangan sa 130,000 fans sa Azteca Stadium sa Mexico City, ug Tyson-Holyfield I & II. Sa 2007, Nadawat ni Albert ang The Sam Taub Award alang sa kaayo sa broadcast journalism sa Boxing Writers Association of America.

Dugang sa boksing, Gigasto ni Albert 19 panahon nga naglangkob sa NBA, paggasto 13 sa mga tuig uban sa Nets, lima uban ang Golden State Warriors ug usa sa New Orleans Hornets. Naghimo usab play-by-play si Albert alang sa New York Mets, Mga jet, Mga Islander ug Rangers, ingon man ang New Jersey Devils.

Ang pag-ila sa International Boxing Hall of Fame mao ang sangputanan sa usa ka karera sa pagkugi ug mga nahimo alang sa usa ka Gray ug Albert.