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JIM GRAY AND STEVE ALBERT ELECTED TO INTERNATIONAL BOXING HALL OF FAME

Veteran SHOWTIME Sports® Reporter Jim Gray and Former Play-By-Play Announcer Steve Albert Join 2018 Class Alongside Vitali Klitschko, Eric Morales and Ronald “Winky” Wright

SHOWTIME Sports veteran reporter Jim Gray and former, long-time play-by-play announcer Steve Albert were elected to the 2018 class of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, it was announced by the Hall on Tuesday.

Gray and Albert earned induction into the Observer category, which recognizes outstanding achievements of print and electronic media journalists, sportscasters, publishers, awduron, historians, photographers and artists. Gray and Albert will join SHOWTIME Sports boxing analyst Al Bernstein (2012), ring announcer Jimmy Lennon Jr. (2013), analyst and historian Steve Farhood (2017) and announcer Barry Tompkins (2017) in the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

Former heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, four-division world champion Eric Morales and former undisputed super welterweight world champion Ronald “Winky” Wright headline the 2018 induction class. The newly elected class will be inducted during Hall of Fame Weekend Mehefin 7-10, 2018, in Canastota, N.Y..

“All of us at SHOWTIME Sports who have worked with Jim and Steve over the years are thrilled that they are receiving this well-deserved honor,” said David Dinkins Jr., Cynhyrchydd Gweithredol, Chwaraeon Showtime. “Both were instrumental in building the SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® fasnachfraint. Jim’s interviews have become classic post-fight drama while Steve’s fight calls are integral to some of the most significant moments in boxing history.”

Gray has been a reporter for SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING since 1994, ac wedi ennill 11 Emmy Awards throughout his career, including one for his interview of Mike Tyson following the heavyweight’s infamous “bite fight” loss to Evander Holyfield. The National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association also named that interview theSports Broadcast Story of the Year.” Yn ogystal, the American Sportscasters Association voted GraySportscaster of the Year” mewn 1998 ac 1999.

Throughout his four-decade career as a reporter, Gray has covered numerous Super Bowls, Cyfres Byd, Gemau Olympaidd, NBA Finals and NCAA Final Fours, and has interviewed many of the most lauded sports figures of this era including Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Kobe Bryant, Tom Brady, Pete Rose, Michael Jordan and many others.

One of the most recognizable voices in sports, Albert joined SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING shortly after its inception in 1986. In a tenure that spanned over two decades, the world-famous broadcaster called over 300 ymladd teitl, including Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Greg Haugen in front of 130,000 fans at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, and Tyson-Holyfield I & II. Yn 2007, Albert received The Sam Taub Award for excellence in broadcast journalism by the Boxing Writers Association of America.

In addition to boxing, Albert spent 19 seasons covering the NBA, spending 13 of those years with the Nets, five with the Golden State Warriors and one with the New Orleans Hornets. Albert has also done play-by-play for the New York Mets, Jets, Islanders and Rangers, as well as the New Jersey Devils.

The recognition by the International Boxing Hall of Fame is the result of a career’s worth of hard work and accomplishments for Gray and Albert.

Lennox Lewis i gael ei sefydlu yn Nevada Hall Bocsio yr Enwogion Sat. Awst. 8, 2015 yn Cesar Palace Las Vegas

 
Lennox Lewis

Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Felix Trinidad, Marco Antonio Barrera, Roger Mayweather a Eddie Mustafa Muhammad yn ymuno

Lennox Lewis yn y digwyddiad llawn sêr!

 

LAS VEGAS, NV. — Pwysau trwm Superstar LENNOX LEWIS, the last undisputed heavyweight champion and who won an Olympic gold medal with a victory over Riddick Bowe a sgoriodd buddugoliaethau proffesiynol dros chwedlau bocsio fel Mike Tysyn, Evander Holyfield ac Vitali Klitschko, confirmed Dydd Mercher y bydd yn dychwelyd i Las Vegas y penwythnos hwn i fynychu'r Nevada Hall Bocsio o drydydd gala cynefino blynyddol Fame yn ym Mhalas Caesars ar ddydd Sadwrn, Awst 8.

 

Lewis is the latest in a gaggle of stars who have announced they’ll attend the popular gala induction ceremony. In addition to Lewis the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame has confirmed that Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Felix Trinidad, Marco Antonio Barrera,Eddie Mustafa Muhammad ac Roger Mayweather Bydd hefyd yn mynd i'r digwyddiad proffil uchel fel aelodau mwyaf newydd y Neuadd Bocsio Nevada yr Enwogion.

 

Lewis, a oedd 41-2-1 gyda 32 knockouts ac roedd buddugoliaeth dros bob dyn a wynebodd erioed yn y cylch, yw un o headliners y NVBHOF yn 2015 dosbarth o ANG,, a ddewiswyd yn y-di Nevada categori bocsiwr.

 

Dial Lewis yr unig ddau colledion ei yrfa, stopio ddau Oliver McCall a Hasim Rahman ar ôl colli atynt yn gynharach.

 

Lewis was a classic boxer with a powerful punch. He’s probably best known for his 2002 ennill dros Tyson, lle'r enillodd pob rownd cyn atal iddo yn y rownd wythfed.

 

Daliodd i gyd, neu fersiwn o, teitl pwysau trwm o 1993 hyd nes 1994 ac yna eto o 1997 drwy ddiwedd ei yrfa yn 2003

 

Roedd Lewis llwyddiant mawr yn Nevada a dial ddau o'i colledion yn Las Vegas. Roedd yn 8-0 yn ei yrfa Nevada ac enillodd ymladd yn y ddau Caesars Palace a Caesars Tahoe.

 

Yn rhan olaf ei yrfa ymladd, Ymunodd Lewis Chwaraeon HBO fel dadansoddwr arbenigol ac yn ffigwr cyfarwydd yn ringside ar gyfer llawer o'r cyfnodau mwyaf o ddiwedd yr 20fed ganrif a dechrau'r 21ain ganrif yn Las Vegas.

 

Cafodd y neuadd ei sefydlu gan y darlledwr bocsio a nodir Rich Marotta. Ei brif swyddog gweithredu yn Michelle Corrales-Lewis, y mae ei diweddar ŵr, Diego Corrales, was an inaugural inductee into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame. Am fwy o wybodaeth, ffôn 702-3-NVBHOF, neu 702-368-2463.

Groupe Yvon Michel (GYM), ar y cyd â Global Legacy Bocsio (Cap) a Maple Leaf Chwaraeon & Adloniant (MLSE), made an official announcement this week, along with Lennox Lewis, that Light Heavyweight World Champion Adonis “Superman” Stevenson Bydd amddiffyn ei deitlau yn erbyn Tommy “Kryptonite” Karpency ar Saith. 11 yn Toronto’ Ricoh Coliseum yn “Y Diwygiad: “KO yn TO”.

Bydd y Pencampwriaeth y Byd cerdyn teitl frwydr sydd i ddod hefyd yn gweld Canada Pwysau Trwm Champ Dillon “Mawredd Mawr” Carman amddiffyn ei deitl yn erbyn chwedlonol Donovan “Razor” Ruddock.

Byd-eang Legacy Llywydd Les Woods s, :”Rwyf mor falch o weld y Champ, Lennox Lewis, gydnabod gan y Neuadd Bocsio Nevada yr Enwogion. Mae'n fraint ac anrhydedd i alw fy ffrind iddo ef ac i fod yn bartner ymuno gydag ef yn Toronto i hyrwyddo Bocsio yng Nghanada.”