(L-R) – Bob and Murray Goodman

NEW YORK (March 26, 2018) – Boxing lifers Bob Goodman ya na nna ya, mbubreyo Murray Goodman, are among 23 members of the Class of 2018 being inducted into the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame (NYSBHOF) na Sunday n'ehihie (12:30-5:30 p.m. NA), April 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) ọrụ. 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, ikekwe, 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, mgbanaka, 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, we had 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 (aka nri) was inducted into the IBHOF in 2009, his father Murray in 1999

Among the world champions Bob has worked with are Muhammad Ali, George onyeisi ọrụ, Joe Frazier, Larry Holmes, Ken Norton, Felix Trinidad, Roberto Duran, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, Bob Ezi, Salvador Sanchez, Sugar Ray Leonard, Julio Cesar Chavez, Wilfredo Gonez, Ricardo Lopez, Bernard Hopkins and so many more.

Ibi na-eti ọkpọ n'isi n'ime NYSBHOF agụnye (Spring Valley) IBF Cruiserweight World onye mmeri Al “ice” Cole (35-16-3, 16 Kos), (Long Island) WBA ìhè Heavyweight Lou “Honey Boy” Valley (36-6-2, 22 Kos), (Central Islip) IBF Junior welterweight World onye mmeri Jake Rodriguez (28-8-2, 8 Kos), (Brooklyn) ụwa fechaa aha ịma ya aka Terrence Alli (52-15-2, 21 Kos), na (Buffalo) undefeated ụwa-klas Heavyweight “Baby” Joe Mesi (36-0, 29 Kos).

Posthumous sonyere na-edeba aha ya n'usuu ndị NBA & NYSAC World Featherweight onye mmeri (Manhattan) Eyen “Cuban Bon Bon” chocolate (136-10-6, 51 Kos), (New York City) 20^nkena narị afọ Heavyweight James J. “amadi Jim” Corbett (11-4-3, 5 Kos), (Williamsburg) World Kedu otu m ga onye mmeri Jack “The Napoleon of The Nrite Ring” McAuliffe, (Kingston) WBC Super fechaa onye mmeri Billy Costello (40-2, 23 Kos), (Beacon) NYSAC Light Heavyweight World onye mmeri Melio Bettina (83-14-3, 36 Kos), (Brooklyn / Yonkers) ụwa-klas Middleweight Ralph “Agu” Jones (52-32-5, 13 Kos) na (Port Washington) heavyweight contender Charley “The Bayonne bombu” Norkus (33-19, 19 Kos).

Living non-participants heading into the NYSBHOF are (Troy) Pulitzer Nrite-emeri sportswriter Dave Anderson, (Brooklyn) ọzụzụ /-enye Ndụmọdụ Pete Brodsky, (Rockaway) ọkpọ ọkọ akụkọ ihe mere / nchịkọta akụkọ Herb Goldman, (Ardsley) NYSAC chairperson / ikpe Melvina Lathan, na (Brooklyn) NYSAC Chairperson/matchmaker/ume Ron Scott Stevens.

Posthumous-abụghị soò inductees bụ (Brooklyn) mgbanaka ogwaokwu Johnnie Addie, (Brooklyn) matchmaker Johnny Bos, (Bronx) ọkpọ dere / ọkọ akụkọ ihe mere Bert Randolph Sugar na (Lower East Side) radio & telivishọn ogwaokwu / nta akụkọ Sam Taub.

Onye ọ bụla ịga inductee (ma ọ bụ esi n'agbụrụ) ga-enweta a omenala-e belt nēgosi ya ma ọ bụ ya itinye n'ọkwa n'ime NYSBHOF.

The 2017 inductees e họrọ NYSBHOF nominating so na Kọmitii: Bobby Cassidy, Obere., Randy Gordon, Henry Hascup, Don Majeski, Ron McNair, na Neil Terens.

All na-eti ọkpọ mkpa ịdị na-adịghị ejekwa maka dịkarịa ala afọ atọ na-ruo eruo inweta NYSBHOF itinye n'ọkwa, na ihe nile inductees ga-abụrịrị na biri na New York State maka a ịrịba òkè nke ha ọkpọ ọrụ ma ọ bụ n'oge praịm nke ndị ọrụ.

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