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

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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, forfattere, 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 Juni 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., Executive Producer, SHOWTIME Sports. “Both were instrumental in building the SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® franchisen. 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, og har opnået 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 the “Sports Broadcast Story of the Year.” Derudover, the American Sportscasters Association voted Gray “Sportscaster of the Year” i 1998 og 1999.

Throughout his four-decade career as a reporter, Gray has covered numerous Super Bowls, World Series, OL, 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 titelkampe, including Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Greg Haugen in front of 130,000 fans at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, and Tyson-Holyfield I & II. I 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.

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Lennox Lewis at blive optaget i Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame Sat. August. 8, 2015 på Cæsars Palace Las Vegas

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Lennox Lewis

Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Felix Trinidad, Marco Antonio Barrera, Roger Mayweather og Eddie Mustafa Muhammad slutte

Lennox Lewis ved stjernespækket begivenhed!

 

LAS VEGAS, NV. — Superstar sværvægter Lennox Lewis, den sidste ubestridte sværvægter mester og som vandt en olympisk guldmedalje med en sejr over Riddick Bowe og scorede professionelle sejre i boksning legender som Mike Tysdenn, Evander Holyfield og Vitali Klitschko, bekræftet Onsdag at han vil vende tilbage til Las Vegas i denne weekend for at deltage i Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame tredje årlige induktion galla på Caesars Palace på lørdag, August 8.

 

Lewis er den seneste i en flok stjerner, der har meddelt, at de vil deltage i det populære galla induktion ceremoni. Ud over Lewis Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame har bekræftet, at Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Felix Trinidad, Marco Antonio Barrera,Eddie Mustafa Muhammad og Roger Mayweather vil også deltage i højt profilerede begivenhed som de nyeste medlemmer af Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame.

 

Lewis, som var 41-2-1 med 32 knockouts og havde en sejr over hver mand, han nogensinde konfronteret i ringen, er en af ​​de hovednavne af NVBHOF s 2015 klasse af inductees, valgt i den ikke-Nevada bokser kategori.

 

Lewis hævnet de eneste to tab i hans karriere, standsning både Oliver McCall og Hasim Rahman efter at have tabt til dem tidligere.

 

Lewis var en klassisk bokser med et kraftfuldt slag. Han er nok mest kendt for sin 2002 vinde over Tyson, hvor han vandt hver runde før standsning ham i ottende runde.

 

Han holdt alle, eller en version af, den tunge titel fra 1993 indtil 1994 og derefter igen fra 1997 gennem slutningen af ​​sin karriere i 2003

 

Lewis havde stor succes i Nevada og hævnet begge hans tab i Las Vegas. Han var 8-0 i hans Nevada karriere og vandt kampe på både Caesars Palace og Caesars Tahoe.

 

I den sidste del af hans kampe karriere, Lewis sluttede HBO Sports som en ekspert analytiker og var en velkendt figur ved ringside for mange af de største anfald af slutningen af ​​det 20. og begyndelsen af ​​det 21. århundrede i Las Vegas.

 

Den Hall blev grundlagt af bemærket boksning tv-station Rich Marotta. Sin Chief Operating Officer er Michelle Corrales-Lewis, hvis afdøde mand, Diego Corrales, var en konstituerende inductee ind i Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame. For mere information, telefon 702-3-NVBHOF, eller 702-368-2463.

Groupe Yvon Michel (GYM), i samarbejde med Global Legacy Boxing (Kasket) og Maple Leaf Sports & Underholdning (MLSE), lavet en officiel meddelelse i denne uge, sammen med Lennox Lewis, at Light Heavyweight verdensmester Adonis “Superman” Stevenson vil forsvare sine titler mod Tommy “Kryptonite” Karpency på Syv. 11 på Toronto’ Ricoh Coliseum i “Den Revival: “KO i TO”.

Den kommende VM titel kamp kort vil også se, Canadian Heavyweight Champ Dillon “Big Country” Carman forsvare sin titel mod legendariske Donovan “Razor” Ruddock.

Global Legacy Præsident Les Woods s, :”Jeg er så glad for at se The Champ, Lennox Lewis, anerkendt af Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame. Det er et privilegium og ære at kalde ham min ven og til at være en partner sammen med ham i Toronto for at fremme Boxing i Canada.”