NIU YOKI (April 5, 2017) – Oniwosan Boxing faili Stan Hoffman is honored to be selected for induction in the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame (NYSBHOF), ìléwọ nipa Oruka 8, as a member of 15-member Class of 2017. The sixth annual NYSBHOF induction dinner will be held Sunday Friday (12:30-5:30 p.m. ATI), April 30, ni Russo ká Lori The Bay ni Howard Okun, Niu Yoki.

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, ni 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 Olimpiiki (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). AtiHasim Rahman is like my kid. Lati Iran Barkley si 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 “Ogbeni” Snipes (39-8-1, 22 KOs), Yonkers middleweightDoug “Cobra’ Dewitt (33-8-5, 19 KOs), ati “The Bronx Bomber,” 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.

Kọọkan inductee yoo gba a aṣa-a še igbanu àkàwé rẹ fifa irọbi sinu NYSBHOF.

Awọn 2017 inductees won ti yan nipa awọn NYSBHOF nominating ẹgbẹ igbimo: Jack Hirsch, Steve Farhood, Bobby Cassidy, Jr., Randy Gordon, Henry Hascup, Ron McNair, Angelo Prospero ati Neil Terens.

Gbogbo boxers nilo lati wa ni aláìṣiṣẹmọ fun o kere odun meta to le yẹ fun NYSBHOF fifa irọbi, ati gbogbo inductees gbọdọ ti gbé ni New York State fun a significant ìka ti won Boxing dánmọrán tabi nigba ti nomba ti wọn ọmọ.

“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, ju. 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, bayi (he joked), a lot more than if I’d been dead going in. I’m honored. 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.”

Tiketi ti wa ni owole ni $150.00 fun agbalagba ati $70.00 fun awọn ọmọde (labẹ 16), ki o si ni kan pipe brunch ati amulumala wakati lori titẹsi, ti o bere ni 12:30 PM/ATI, bi daradara bi ale (nomba o wonu, eja tabi adie) and open bar throughout the evening. Tiketi wa o si wa lati ra nipa pipe NYSBHOF / Iwọn 8 Aare Bob Duffy ni 516.313.2304. Ìpolówó fun awọn NYSBHOF eto ni o wa, orisirisi lati $80.00 si $250.00, nipa kikan si Duffy. Lọ lori ila niwww.Ring8ny.com fun afikun alaye nipa awọn New York State Boxing Hall ti loruko.