(L-R) – Bob and Murray Goodman

NEW YORK (Machi 26, 2018) – Boxing lifers Bob Goodman na baba yake, marehemu Murray Goodman, are among 23 members of the Class of 2018 being inducted into the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame (NYSBHOF) juu ya Jumapili alasiri (12:30-5:30 p.m. NA), Aprili 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) huduma. 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, labda, 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, pete, 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 (mbali haki) 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.

Hai Mabondia viongozi ndani NYSBHOF ni pamoja (spring Valley) IBF cruiserweight World Champion Al “Ice” Cole (35-16-3, 16 Kos), (Long Island) WBA mwanga Heavyweight Lou “Honey Boy” Valley (36-6-2, 22 Kos), (Central Islip) IBF Junior Welterweight World Champion Jake Rodriguez (28-8-2, 8 Kos), (Brooklyn) dunia nyepesi cheo mshindani Terrence Alli (52-15-2, 21 Kos), na (Buffalo) kuepuka kushindwa duniani darasa Heavyweight “Baby” Joe Mesi (36-0, 29 Kos).

washiriki Posthumous kuwa aliingiza ni NBA & NYSAC World Featherweight Champion (Manhattan) Kid “Cuba Bon Bon” Chocolate (136-10-6, 51 Kos), (New York City) 20^thkarne Heavyweight James J. “Gentleman Jim” Corbett (11-4-3, 5 Kos), (Williamsburg) Dunia Lightweight bingwa Jack “Napoleon wa Gonga Tuzo” McAuliffe, (Kingston) WBC Super Lightweight Champion Billy Costello (40-2, 23 Kos), (Beacon) NYSAC Mwanga Heavyweight bingwa wa dunia Melio Bettina (83-14-3, 36 Kos), (Brooklyn / Yonkers) duniani darasa middleweight Ralph “Tiger” Jones (52-32-5, 13 Kos) na (Port Washington) Heavyweight mgombea Charley “mshambuliaji Bayonne” Norkus (33-19, 19 Kos).

Living non-participants heading into the NYSBHOF are (Troy) Tuzo ya Pulitzer-kushinda spoti Dave Anderson, (Brooklyn) mkufunzi / mshauri Pete Brodsky, (Rockaway) historia ndondi / mhariri Herb Goldman, (Ardsley) NYSAC Mwenyekiti / hakimu MELVINA Lathan, na (Brooklyn) NYSAC Chairperson/matchmaker/promoter Ron Scott Stevens.

Posthumous zisizo mshiriki inductees ni (Brooklyn) pete mtangazaji Johnnie Addie, (Brooklyn) MatchMaker Johnny Bos, (Bronx) ndondi mwandishi / historia Bert Randolph Sugar na (Lower East Side) radio & televisheni mtangazaji / mwandishi wa habari Sam Taub.

Kila inductee kuhudhuria (au moja kwa moja ukoo wa) kupokea desturi-iliyoundwa ukanda likimaanisha introduktionsutbildning yake katika NYSBHOF.

The 2017 inductees walichaguliwa na wanachama NYSBHOF kamati kuteua: Bobby Cassidy, Jr., Randy Gordon, Henry Hascup, Don Majeski, Ron McNair, na neil Terens.

Mabondia wote zinahitajika kuwa inaktiv kwa muda wa miaka mitatu hadi wakastahiki NYSBHOF introduktionsutbildning, na inductees wote lazima kuwa anaishi katika Jimbo la New York kwa sehemu kubwa ya ndondi kazi zao au wakati wa mkuu wa kazi zao.

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