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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, författare, 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., Exekutiv producent, Showtime Sports. “Both were instrumental in building the SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® serien. 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, och har förtjänat 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.” Dessutom, the American Sportscasters Association voted Gray “Sportscaster of the Year” i 1998 och 1999.

Throughout his four-decade career as a reporter, Gray has covered numerous Super Bowls, World Series, OS, 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 title fights, 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 att bli invald i Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame Lör. Augusti. 8, 2015 på Caesars Palace i Las Vegas

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Lennox Lewis

Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Felix Trinidad, Marco Antonio Barrera, Roger Mayweather och Eddie Mustafa Mohammad ansluta

Lennox Lewis på stjärnspäckade evenemanget!

 

LAS VEGAS, NV. — Superstar tungvikt Lennox Lewis, the last undisputed heavyweight champion and who won an Olympic gold medal with a victory over Riddick Bowe och gjorde professionella segrar över boxning legender som Mike Tysdenn, Evander Holyfield och Vitali Klitschko, confirmed Onsdag att han kommer att återvända till Las Vegas i helgen för att delta i Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame tredje årliga induktion gala på Caesars Palace på lördag, Augusti 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 och Roger Mayweather kommer också att delta i högprofilerade event som de nyaste medlemmarna i Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame.

 

Lewis, som var 41-2-1 med 32 Knockouts och hade en seger över varje människa han någonsin möter i ringen, är en av de headliners i NVBHOF s 2015 klass av inductees, valt i den icke-Nevada boxare kategori.

 

Lewis hämnas de enda två förluster av sin karriär, stoppa både Oliver McCall och Hasim Rahman efter att ha förlorat till dem tidigare.

 

Lewis was a classic boxer with a powerful punch. He’s probably best known for his 2002 vinna över Tyson, där han vann varje runda innan du stoppar honom i den åttonde omgången.

 

Han höll alla, eller en version av, den tunga titeln från 1993 tills 1994 och sedan igen från 1997 till slutet av sin karriär i 2003

 

Lewis hade stor framgång i Nevada och hämnades båda sina förluster i Las Vegas. Han var 8-0 i hans Nevada karriär och vann slagsmål på både Caesars Palace och Caesars Tahoe.

 

I den senare delen av hans kämpar karriär, Lewis gick med HBO Sports som expert analytiker och var en välkänd gestalt vid ringside för många av de största matcherna i slutet av 20 och början av 21-talet i Las Vegas.

 

Hallen grundades av noterade boxning programföretag Rich Marotta. Dess Chief Operating Officer är Michelle Corrales-Lewis, vars sena make, Diego Corrales, was an inaugural inductee into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame. För mer information, telefon 702-3-NVBHOF, eller 702-368-2463.

Groupe Yvon Michel (GYM), i association med Global Legacy boxning (Keps) och Maple Leaf Sport & Underhållning (MLSE), made an official announcement this week, along with Lennox Lewis, that Light Heavyweight World Champion Adonis “Superman” Stevenson kommer att försvara sina titlar mot Tommy “Kryptonite” Karpency på Sju. 11 på Toronto’ Ricoh Coliseum i “Den Revival: “KO i TO”.

Den kommande VM titel kamp kort kommer också att se kanadensiska Heavyweight Champ Dillon “Big Country” Carman försvara sin titel mot legendariska Donovan “Razor” Ruddock.

Globalt Legacy VD Les Woods s, :”Jag är så glad över att se The Champ, Lennox Lewis, erkänts av Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame. Det är ett privilegium och en ära att kalla honom min vän och att vara en partner samarbetar med honom i Toronto för att främja Boxing i Kanada.”