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NEW YORK (April 5, 2017) – Kaiwhakahaere mekemeke Veteran Stan Hoffman is honored to be selected for induction in the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame (NYSBHOF), tautoko e Ring 8, as a member of 15-member Class of 2017. The sixth annual NYSBHOF induction dinner will be held Rātapu ahiahi (12:30-5:30 p.m. AND), April 30, i te Russo On te Bay i roto i te Howard Beach, New York.
Hoffman, 86, has managed, advised or promoted 38 world champions during nearly 50 years working in the boxing industry. A product of Brooklyn and Bronx, Hoffman still advises some boxes and attends fights, but he enjoys spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren.
“I’m told that I’ve had 38 world champions and I have a story for each one of them,” Hoffman said. “Almost from the beginning, i roto i te 1980, I had success in boxing. Joe Manley is special because he was the first fighter I signed and also my first world champion. Team USA didn’t send a team to the 1980 Olympics (because of a boycott) and Joe was lost. Nobody expected him to on to win the world junior welterweight title like he did. The pinnacle of my career was my first heavyweight champion, Michael Benntt. Bob Harumu called asking if I wanted to make some money using Bentt in a tune-up fight for Tommy Morrison , who had a big money fight lined up with Lennox Lewis. Michael knocked him out in the first round (for Morrison’s WBO heavyweight title). NaHasim Rahman is like my kid. Mai Iran Barkley ki James Toney, I have stories about all of them.”
Living boxers heading into the NYSBHOF include Manhattan welterweightGaspar “El Indio” Ortega (131-39-6, 69 Koó), Yonkers’ world heavyweight title challenger Renaldo “Mr.” Snipes (39-8-1, 22 Koó), Yonkers middleweightDoug “Cobra’ Dewitt (33-8-5, 19 Koó), a “Ko te rererangi Bronx,” world middleweight title challenger Alex Ramos (39-10-2, 24 Koó)
Posthumous participants being inducted are Queens’ former middleweight and light heavyweight world champion Dick Tiger (60-19-3, 27 Koó), Brooklyn/Manhattan light heavyweight world champion Jose “Chegui” Torres(41-3-1, 29 Koó), and Williamsburg’s middleweight world champion, “The Nonpareil” Jack Dempsey (51-4-11, 23 Koó).
Non-participants heading into the NYSBHOF along with Hoffman are Queens’ International agent Don Majeski, Long Island matchmaker Ron Katz, and past Ring 8 president/NYSAC judge Bobby Bartels.
Posthumous non-participant inductees are Brooklyn boxing historian Hank Kaplan, Long Island cut-man Al Gavin, Bronx referee Arthur Donovan and New York City columnist Dan Parker.
Ka riro ia ia inductee he whitiki ritenga-hoahoa hei whakaatu i tona arataki ki te NYSBHOF.
Te 2017 tīpakohia inductees i te taha o nga mema o te komiti whakaingoa NYSBHOF: Jack Hirsch, Steve Farhood, Bobby Cassidy, JR., Randy Gordon, Henry Hascup, Ron McNair, Angelo Prospero a Neil Terens.
kaimekemeke katoa e hiahiatia ana ki te kia hohekore mō tau i te iti rawa e toru ki te kia āhei hoki NYSBHOF arataki, a me inductees katoa kua noho i roto i te New York State mo te wahi nui o to ratou mahi mekemeke i te pirimia o to ratou mahi tēnā ranei.
“After spending so many years of my life in boxing,” Hoffman concluded, “I was fortunate to have so many world champions. It was a lot of hard work but I had a lot of luck, rawa. I’ve met so many good people in boxing. I’ll tell you, I’m going to enjoy being inducted into the New York State Hall of Fame, i teie nei (he joked), a lot more than if I’d been dead going in. Nōku te ahau. It’s also special for me to be inducted in the same class as Ron Katz, who was my matchmaker, Doug DeWitt – I worked with him as a manager and he won the world title – and my good friend, Reynaldo Snipes. The New York State Boxing Hall of Fame induction dinner is a great time and I’m really looking forward to it.”
CLASS o 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 a Arthur Mercante, Sr.
CLASS o 2013: Jack Dempsey, Johnny Tanitī, Sandy tera hōiho, Maxie Rosenbloom, Joey Archer, Iran Barkley, Mark Breland, Bobby Cassidy, Doug Jones , Junior Jones, James “Buddy” McGirt, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Bob Harumu, Shelly Finkel, Tony Graziano, Larry Merchant, Teddy Brenner, Mike Jacobs, Tex Rickard a Don Dunphy.
CLASS OF 2014: Floyd Patterson, Tracy Harris Patterson, Billy Backus, Kevin Kelley, Juan Laporte, Gerry Cooney, Mustafa Hamsho, Howard Davis, Jr., Lou Ambers, 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.
CLASS OF 2015: Haora Mamby, Joey Giambra, Johnny Persol, Harold Weston, Lonnie Bradley, Paora 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 ko Al Weill.
CLASS OF 2016: Arona 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 ko Jimmy Jacobs.
Utu Tickets e i $150.00 ia pakeke me te $70.00 mō ngā tamariki (i raro i 16), a ka whakauru i te moko oti, me te cocktail haora ki runga ki te urunga, tīmata i 12:30 PM/AND, me te tina (rara pirimia, ika heihei ranei) and open bar throughout the evening. E wātea ana ki te hoko tikiti i te te karanga NYSBHOF / Ring 8 peresideni Bob Duffy i 516.313.2304. E wātea ana Pānui mō te hōtaka NYSBHOF, mai $80.00 ki $250.00, mā te whakapā Duffy. Haere i runga i te raina i www.Ring8ny.com hoki atu ngā kōrero e pā ana ki te New York State Mekemeke Hall o te Rongonui. |
