NEW YORK (April 5, 2017) – Veteran papading ya ditebele tsa mookameli Stan Hoffman is honored to be selected for induction in the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame (NYSBHOF), tšehelitsoe ke Ring 8, as a member of 15-member Class of 2017. The sixth annual NYSBHOF induction dinner will be held Sontaha thapama (12:30-5:30 p.m. LE), April 30, ka Russo oa On The Bay a 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, a 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 Liolimpiki (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 Arum 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). LeHasim Rahman is like my kid. Ho tloha Iran Barkley ho 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 Kos), Yonkers’ world heavyweight title challenger Renaldo “Monghali.” Snipes (39-8-1, 22 Kos), Yonkers middleweightDoug “Cobra’ Dewitt (33-8-5, 19 Kos), le “The bomber mata Bronx,” world middleweight title challenger Alex Ramos (39-10-2, 24 Kos)

Posthumous participants being inducted are Queens’ former middleweight and light heavyweight world champion Dick Tiger (60-19-3, 27 Kos), Brooklyn/Manhattan light heavyweight world champion Jose “Chegui” Torres(41-3-1, 29 Kos), and Williamsburg’s middleweight world champion, “The Nonpareil” Jack Dempsey (51-4-11, 23 Kos).

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.

Mong le e mong inductee tla fumana e le tloaelo-etselitsoe lebanta bontšang hae induction ka NYSBHOF.

The 2017 inductees ba ne ba a khetha ke NYSBHOF nominating litho tsa komiti: Jack Hirsch, Steve kekana Farhood, Bobby Cassidy, Refresh., Randy Gordon, Henry Hascup, Ron McNair, Angelo Prospero le Neil Terens.

boraditebele tsohle ho hlokahala ho ba khathetseng moeeng bonyane ka lilemo tse tharo ho kgethelwa ho NYSBHOF induction, 'me inductees bohle e tlameha ebe lula New York State bakeng sa kabelo ea bohlokoa ea litebele mesebetsi ea bona kapa nakong ea ka sehloohong oa mosebetsi o lefang tsona.

“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, le eena o. 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, hona joale (he joked), a lot more than if I’d been dead going in. Ke hlompha. 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.”

Tickets ba turu ka $150.00 ka ho ya ka mogolo mongwe $70.00 bakeng sa bana ba (tlas'a 16), le akarelletsa brunch feletse le hora amorph holim kena, ho qala ka 12:30 PM/LE, hammoho le lijo tsa mantsiboea (tona-khōlō ka khopo, tlhapi kapa likhoho) and open bar throughout the evening. Tickets di a fumaneha ho reka ka bitsa NYSBHOF / Ring 8 e le mopresidente Bob Duffy ka 516.313.2304. Ads bakeng sa NYSBHOF lenaneo la di a fumaneha, ho tloha ho $80.00 ho $250.00, ke buisana Duffy. Le tsoele pele ho le molengwww.Ring8ny.com eketsehileng tlhahisoleseding e mabapi le New York State Boxing hall of fame.