(L-R) –
Bob and Murray Goodman
NEW YORK (March 26, 2018) –
Boxing lifers Bob Goodman me tona papa, te mutunga o
Murray Goodman,
are among 23
members of the Class of 2018
being inducted into the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame (NYSBHOF) i runga i
Rātapu ahiahi (12:30-5:30 p.m. AND), 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) ratonga. 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, pea, 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, te mowhiti, 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 (tawhiti tika)
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, Pirika Trinidad, Roberto Durán, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, Bob Foster, Salvador Sanchez, Sugar Ray Leonard , Julio Hiha Chavez, Wilfredo Gonez, Ricardo Lopez, Bernard Hopkins and so many more.
kaimekemeke ora ahu ki te NYSBHOF ngā (Valley Spring) IBF Cruiserweight World Champion al “Ice” Cole (35-16-3, 16 Koó), (Island roa) WBA marama taumahamaha Lou “Honey Boy” Raorao (36-6-2, 22 Koó), (Central Islip) IBF Junior Welterweight World Champion Jake Rodriguez (28-8-2, 8 Koó), (Brooklyn) ao kaiwero taitara Kōmāmā Terrence Alli (52-15-2, 21 Koó), a (Buffalo) taumahamaha o tūturu ao-te piha haapiiraa “Baby” Joe Mesi (36-0, 29 Koó).
kaiuru murimate te whakangungu e NBA & NYSAC World mā whitu Champion (Manhattan) Kid “Cuban Bon Bon” Chocolate (136-10-6, 51 Koó), (New York City) 20thtaumahamaha rau James J. “taata Jim” Corbett (11-4-3, 5 Koó), (Williamsburg) World Kōmāmā Champion Jack “Ko te Napoleon o te Paraihe Ring” McAuliffe, (Kingston) WBC Super Kōmāmā Champion Billy Costello (40-2, 23 Koó), (Mori) NYSAC Light Heavyweight World Champion Melio Bettina (83-14-3, 36 Koó), (Brooklyn / Yonkers) whitu-ao te piha haapiiraa Ralph “Tiger” Jones (52-32-5, 13 Koó) a (Port Washington) nguha taumahamaha Charley “Ko te rererangi Bayonne” Norkus (33-19, 19 Koó).
Living non-participants heading into the NYSBHOF are (Troy) Pulitzer paraihe-toa sportswriter Dave Anderson, (Brooklyn) kaiwhakangungu / kaitohutohu Pete Brodsky, (Rockaway) mekemeke tumu kōrero / ētita Herb Goldman, (Ardsley) NYSAC heamana / whakawa Melvina Lathan, a (Brooklyn) NYSAC Chairperson/matchmaker/kaiwhakatairanga Ron Scott Stevens.
Murimate inductees kaiuru-kore e (Brooklyn) auvaha mowhiti Johnnie Addie, (Brooklyn) matchmaker Johnny Bos, (Bronx) mekemeke kaituhi / kōrero Bert Randolph Sugar a (Lower Te Tai Rāwhiti taha) irirangi & pāho pouaka whakaata / kairīpoata Sam Taub.
Ia inductee te haere (ranei uri whakaheke o) ka riro i te whitiki ritenga-hoahoa hei whakaatu i tona ranei tona arataki ki te NYSBHOF.
Te 2017 tīpakohia inductees i te taha o nga mema o te komiti whakaingoa NYSBHOF: Bobby Cassidy, JR., Randy Gordon, Henry Hascup, Don Majeski, Ron McNair, 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.
NYSBHOF
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 Giamba, 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.
CLASS OF 2017: Gaspar Ortega, Renaldo “Mr.” Snipes, Doug DeWitt, “Ko te rererangi Bronx” Alex Ramos, Dick Tiger, Jose Torres, “Nonpareil” Jack Dempsey, Don Majeski, Ron Katz, Stan Hoffman, Bobby Bartels, Hank Kaplan, Al Gavin, Arthur Donovan ko Rana Parker.
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