(L-R) –
Bob and Murray Goodman
NEW YORK (Marso 26, 2018) –
Boxing lifers Bob Goodman ug ang iyang amahan, sa ulahing bahin sa
Murray Goodman,
are among 23
members of the Class of 2018
being inducted into the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame (NYSBHOF) sa
Sa Domingo hapon (12:30-5:30 sa gabii. UG), Abril 29.
The seventh annual NYSBHOF induction dinner will be held once again at Russo’s On The Bay in Howard Beach, New York.
A legendary boxing publicist, Murray Goodman (Bronx) brought his son into the sweet science when Bob was only eight years old. The rest was historic for the Goodmans, who are both inductees in several Halls of Fame, including the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
“This is a great honor for me and my father,” Bob said. “I wish he were alive today to be there. I’m a boxing lifer. I was eight years old going to all the training camps with my father, who was a boxing writer and sports editor for the INS (Hearst News Service) nga pag-alagad. The joke is I was conceived at Grossinger’s (Catskill Resort Hotel training camp). Boxing just came into my life. My dad and I had some businesses in promotions and public relations, all different kinds of sports-related businesses, but there was always boxing.
“I’m the luckiest guy in the world. I was brought up doing the very things I loved. How many people can say that? I met and became friends with Joe Louis, Marcel Cerdan, Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Graziano, Rocky Marciano and so many others. I’d stay in camps for weeks. I’d get up to run with the boxers and got a chance to be around my heroes. I also got to know trainers and others in boxing and later fans. I got to know everybody. I was brought up in boxing, my whole life was boxing, 65 years in the business.”
Bob is, tingali, best known as Vice President and Matchmaker for Madison Square Garden (1985-1994), as well as a quarter-century serving as Vice President of Boxing Operations, Matchmaker and Director of Public Relations for Don King Productions. He also promoted many world champions as President of his own company, Garden State Boxing.
“I remember going away to training camps for weeks at a time,” the 78-year-old Goodman fondly remembered. “I’d take pictures, write stories every day and use my telecopier to send them to AP and UPI. I did so much being brought up un the business, even loading trucks up with chairs, ang singsing, speakers and more. My father was the Publicity Director for the International Boxing Club at Madison Square Garden. I worked there when I was a teenager.
“I’m honored to be inducted into the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame with my father and so many boxing guys. They’re different from people in any other sports. One of the awards I’ve won that I’m most proud of is the James J. Walker Memorial Award for Long and Meritorious Service to Boxing (BWAA in 1960).
“I’m fortunate to have transcended various eras in boxing. It was a different world back then, kami adunay 20-30 writers stay for weeks at training camps. I got to know old-time boxers and trainers.”
Bob Goodman (L) checking Muhammad Ali’s weight and on right with Rocky Marciano
Goodman, who served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1958-62, stays active today working with veterans’ groups. He is President of the Weymouth Township Veteran’s Advisory Board, and also active with the American Legion and part of the Honor Guard with the Korean War Veterans Association.
Bob Goodman (layo sa tuo)
was inducted into the IBHOF in 2009,
his father Murray in 1999
Among the world champions Bob has worked with are Muhammad Ali, George foreman, Joe Frazier, Larry Holmes, Ken Norton, Felix Trinidad, Roberto Duran, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, Bob Foster, Salvador Sanchez, Sugar Ray Leonard, Julio Cesar Chavez, Wilfredo Gonez, Ricardo Lopez, Bernard Hopkins and so many more.
Buhi nga boxers ulohan ngadto sa NYSBHOF naglakip sa (Spring Valley) IBF Cruiserweight World Champion Al “Ice” Cole (35-16-3, 16 KOs), (Long Island) WBA kahayag heavyweight Lou “dugos Boy” Walog (36-6-2, 22 KOs), (Central Islip) IBF Junior Welterweight World Champion Jake Rodriguez (28-8-2, 8 KOs), (Brooklyn) kalibutan lightweight title challenger Terrence allí (52-15-2, 21 KOs), ug (buffalo) undefeated kalibutan-klase heavyweight “Baby” Joe Mesi (36-0, 29 KOs).
Posthumous partisipante nga ipailaila ang mga NBA & NYSAC World featherweight Champion (Manhattan) Kid “Cuban Bon Bon” chocolate (136-10-6, 51 KOs), (New York City) 20thsiglo heavyweight Santiago J. “Gentleman Jim” Corbett (11-4-3, 5 KOs), (Williamsburg) World Champion Lightweight Jack “Ang Napoleon sa Ang Prize Ring” McAuliffe, (Kingston) WBC Super Lightweight Champion Billy Costello (40-2, 23 KOs), (Suga) NYSAC Kahayag heavyweight World Champion Melio Bettina (83-14-3, 36 KOs), (Brooklyn / Yonkers) kalibutan-klase middleweight Ralph “Tiger” Jones (52-32-5, 13 KOs) ug (Port Washington) heavyweight contender Charley “Ang Bayonne Bomber” Norkus (33-19, 19 KOs).
Living non-participants heading into the NYSBHOF are (Troy) Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriter Dave Anderson, (Brooklyn) trainer / advisor Pete Brodsky, (Rockaway) boxing historyador nga / editor Nga balili nga Goldman, (Ardsley) NYSAC chairperson / maghuhukom Melvina Lathan, ug (Brooklyn) NYSAC Chairperson/matchmaker/promoter Ron Scott Stevens.
Posthumous non-participant inductees mga (Brooklyn) singsing announcer Johnnie Eidyzhang, (Brooklyn) matchmaker Johnny Bos, (Bronx) boxing magsusulat / historyador nga Bert Randolph Sugar ug (Lower East Side) radyo & telebisyon announcer / journalist Sam Taub.
Ang matag pagtambong sa inductee (o direkta nga kaliwat sa) makadawat sa usa ka batasan-gidisenyo bakus pagpasabut sa iyang induction sa NYSBHOF.
Ang 2017 inductees gipili sa NYSBHOF nominating mga membro sa komite: Bobby Cassidy, Jr., Randy Gordon, Henry Hascup, Don Majeski, Ron McNair, ug Neil Terens.
Ang tanan nga mga boksidor nga gikinahanglan aron mahimong dili aktibo alang sa labing menos tulo ka tuig aron mahimong kwalipikado alang sa NYSBHOF induction, ug ang tanan nga inductees gayod nagpuyo sa New York State alang sa usa ka mahinungdanon nga bahin sa ilang boxing karera o sa panahon sa prime sa ilang tagsa-tagsa karera.
NYSBHOF
CLASS sa 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 ug Arthur Mercante, Sr.
CLASS sa 2013: Jack Dempsey, Johnny Dundee, Sandy montura sa, Maxie Rosenbloom, Joey Archer, Iran Barkley, Mark Breland, Bobby Cassidy, Doug Jones, Junior Jones, Santiago “Buddy” McGirt, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Bob Arum, Shelly Finkel, Tony Graziano, Larry Merchant, Teddy Brenner, Mike Jacobs, Tex Rickard ug Don Dunphy.
CLASS SA 2014: Floyd Patterson, Tracy Harris Patterson, Billy Backus, Kevin Kelley, Juan LaPorte, Gerry Tabang, Mustafa Hamsho, Howard Davis, Jr., Lou Ambers, Jack Britton, Terry McGovern, Teddy Atlas, Lou DiBella, Steve Farhood, Gene Moore, Angelo Prospero, Whitey Bimstein, Damasco D'Amato, William Muldoon ug Tom O'Rourke.
CLASS SA 2015: Saul Mamby, Joey Giamba, Johnny Persol, Harold Weston, Lonnie Bradley, Si Pablo 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 ug Al Weill.
CLASS SA 2016: Aaron 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 ug Jimmy Jacobs.
CLASS SA 2017: Gaspar Ortega, Renaldo “Mr.” Snipes, Doug DeWitt, “Ang Bronx Bomber” Alex Ramos, Dick Tiger, Jose Torres, “Nonpareil” Jack Dempsey, Don Majeski, Ron Katz, Stan Hoffman, Bobby Bartels, Hank Kaplan, Al Gavin, Arthur Donovan ug ang Dan Parker.
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