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New York State Boxing Hall of Fame Anounces Class of 2019

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NOVUS Ebor' (January 30, 2019) – The New York State Boxing Hall of Fame (NYSBHOF) has nuntiatum est eius XXIV-socius genere 2019. Octava annua NYSBHOF INDUCTIO cena eritDominica post meridiem (12:30-5:30 p.m. ATQUE), Aprilis 28, The Bay in Howard scriptor Russo ad Beach, New York,.

“Excitantur ut New Yorkers honorent qui per totam rem publicam caesuram adiuverunt,” NYSBHOF Praeses Bob Duffy dixit. “Huius anni inductiones tantum faciebant ut in Novi Eboraci caestu adiuvarentur, utrum pugnatores essent vel non-participantes. Propositum est New Yorkers in caestu per plures annos colere.”

Vivum pugiles petere in NYSBHOF includit (Bronx primogenitus) tribus diebus, duos divisio mundi championWilfredus Benitez (53-8-1, 31 KOs), Canastota welterweightDick DiVeronica (44-13-1, 13 KOs), (Hempstede) WBO super tenui mundo champion Rogelio Tuur (46-4-1, 30 KOs), (Bronx) 1968 U.S. OlympioDavey Vasquez (19-15, 6 KOs), WBO super middleweight world title challengerMichael Olajide (27-5, 19 KOs), Manhattan, et Reginarum’ orbis terrarum heavyweight titulum AemulatorMonte Barrett (35-11-2, 20 KOs).

Postumus Praesent inductus sunt (Bronx) three-vicis leve mundi champion Jimmy Carter (84-31-9, 34 KOs), Brooklyn welterweightal “Bummy” Davis (65-10-4, 46 KOs), (Schenectady) mundus welterweight championMarty Servo (47-4-2, 14 KOs), (Bronx) orbis terrarum heavyweight titulum AemulatorRolandus LaStarza (57-9, 27 KOs), Brooklyn mundi leve championPaddy DeMarco (75-26-3, 8 KOs) et Manhattan's Inferioris Orientalis Partis leves ponderationesSid Terris (94-13-5, 12 KOs) atqueLeach “Pugna Dentist” Crucis (35-10-4, 22 KOs).

Vivum non-participes in NYSBHOF tendentes sunt, New York City-fundatur promotorDon Rex, Flushinga iudexIoannes McKaie, Brooklyn sportscasterSteve Albert, referendariusArthurus Mercante, Jr., et Bronx lanistaBob Jackson.

Postumus non-participem inductiones Uticae conciliantisDewey Fragetta, Crown, Reginae referendariusJohnny LoBianco, Hortus urbe referendariusWayne Kelly, Flushinga sportsmanHarrius Hill, award victor diurnariusJimmy Cannon, de Manhattania Superiore Orientali, et NYSAC officialis / pristini NABF praesesIosephus Dwyer, ex Brooklyn.

Quisque attendentes inductee (et perpetuata propagine procul) accipiet consuetudo disposuerat balteum significat inductionem suam in NYSBHOF.

The 2019 electi sunt a sodalibus inductionibus NYSBHOF Acacium: Randy Gordon, Henricus Hascup, Don Majeski, Ron McNair, atqueNeil Terens.

All pugiles opus esse otiosum est saltem tres annos caverint NYSBHOF inductio, et omnes inductiones in New York State pro a significans pars eorum pugilatu gestas cum primo suo cuiusque vitae.

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CLASS of* 2012: Carmen Basilio, Mike McCallum, Mike Tyson, Jake lamotta, Riddick: Inclinate, Carolus Ortiz, Vito Antuofermo, Emile Griffith, “Sugar” Ray Robinson, Gene Tunney, Leonard Benny, Tony Canzoneri, Harold Lederman, Steve Acunto, Jimmy Glenn, Gil Clancy, Ray Arcel, Nat Fleischer, Bill Gallo et Arthur mercante, Sr.

CLASS of* 2013: Jack Dempsey, Johnny Dundee, Sandy BEVERLACENSE, Maxie Rosenbloom, Joey Archer, Iran Barkley, Mark Breland, Bobby Cassidy, Doug Jones, Junior Jones, James “Buddy” McGirt, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Bob Arum, Shelly Finkel, Tony Graziano, Merchant Larry, Teddy Brenner, Mike Jacobs, Tex Rickard et Don Dunphy.

CLASS OF' 2014: Floyd Patterson, Tracy Harris Patterson, Billy Backus, Kevin Kelley, Juan LAPORTE, Willie Cooney, Mustafa Hamsho, Howard Davis, Jr., Lou Ambers, Jack Britton, Terry McGovern, Atlas Teddy, Lou DiBella, Steve Farhood, Gene Moore, Angelus Prospero, Whitey Bimstein, D'Amato Cus, William Muldoon et Tom O'Rourke.

CLASS OF' 2015: Ebrius Mamby, Joey Giamba, John Persol, Harold Weston, Lonnie Bradley, Paulus Berlenbach, Artist Tullius Cicero, Frankie Genaro, Cornelius Tacitus, Tommy Ryan, Jimmy Slattery, Bob Duffy, Mike Katz, Tommy Gallagher, Bruce Silverglade, Carolus Goldman, Anno Cicero, Cedric Kushner, Harry Markson, Damon Runyon et Al Weill.

CLASS OF' 2016: Aaron Cicero, Charles Murray, Vilomar Fernandez, Marcus Viruet, Hector “macho” Camacho, Rocky Graziano, Petrosa Kansas, Joe Lynch, Joe Miceli, ed Brophy, Joe DeGuardia, Randy Gordon, Dennis Rappaport, Albert howie, Freddie Brown, Vivamus ligula, Et arcum ecliptice EN ruby ​​Jimmy Jacobs.

CLASS OF' 2017: Gaspar Ortega, Renaldo “Dominus.” snipes, Doug Dewitt, “Bronx Bomber” Alex Ramos, Dick Tigris, Jose Torres, “Nonpareil” Jack Dempsey, Don Majeski, Ron Rapidshare, Carl Cornelius, Gaius Bartels, Hank Nabu, Al Gavin, Donovan Arthur, et Dan Parker.

CLASS OF' 2018: Lou “Puer mel” Vallis, Timotheus Rodriguez, Terrence Alli, “Infantem” Joe Mesi, Kid Chocolate, Jacobus J.. “Jim nobilis” Corbett, Jack McAuliffe, Puer Sacris Solemnis, Melio Bettina Ralph “Tiger” Jones, Carolus Norkus, Dave Anderson, Pete Brodsky, herba Goldman, Gaius Goodman, Melvina Lathan, Ron Tullius Cicero, Johnnie Addie, Homo johnny, Murray Goodman, Bert Ranulphus Sugar et Sam Taub.

Tesseras qui pretium at $125.00 et per adult $60.00 quia filii (under 16) et includere completam brunch et cocktail hora in introitu, starting at 12:30 p.m. ATQUE, as tum cena (et altilia occisa, piscis aut pultrearum) et apertum est, per diem bar. Tesseras sunt praesto ad contactus NYSBHOF Praeses Bob Duffy mercari at 516.313.2304 autdepcomish@aol.com. Ads ad NYSBHOF progressio praesto sunt, vndique a $80.00 ad $200.00, contingentes per Duffy. Ite in linea atwww.Ring8ny.com for* informationis de Novae Eboraci Civitatis Pugilatu Hall de Fame.

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SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® REPORTER JIM GRAY CALLS INDUCTION INTO INTERNATIONAL BOXING HALL OF FAME AN ‘UNLIKELY AND TREMENDOUS HONOR’

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Veteran Reporter Joins Former Play-By-Play Announcer Steve Albert As Sixth From SHOWTIME Sports® Quoniam 2012 To Be Presented With Boxing’s Highest Honor

NEW EBORACUM (June 11, 2018) – SHOWTIME Sports® veteran reporter Jim Gray was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame on Sunday in Canastota, N.Y., joining former colleague and longtime SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING play-by-play announcer Steve Albert in receiving boxing’s most prestigious honor.

 

 

 

Gray and Albert became the fifth and sixth SHOWTIME Sports talent enshrined in the Hall of Fame since 2012. They join boxing analyst Al Bernstein (2012), ring announcer Jimmy Lennon Jr. (2013), analyst and historian Steve Farhood (2017) and play-by-play announcer Barry Tompkins (2017).

 

 

 

In front of a large crowd that included close friends Mike Tyson, Don Rex, Deontay Wilder, Julius Irving, Jerry Richardson, Stedman Graham, Bob Costas and many others, the 59-year-old Southern California resident Gray reflected on 40-plus years of covering the sport of boxing. “My journey today has been an unlikely one,” Gray said during his induction speech. “The Boxing Hall of Fame immortalized all of these great fighters. So this magnificent honor comes with tremendous humility. How could this happen? I never took a punch.”

 

 

 

Gray, who started with SHOWTIME in 1994, was honored with a Special Individual Achievement Emmy Award – he currently has 12 Emmy’s in total – in 1997 for his interview of Mike Tyson following the heavyweight’s second loss to Evander Holyfield, the infamous “bite fight.” The National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association also named that interview the “Sports Broadcast Story of the Year.” Superaddita, the American Sportscasters Association has voted Gray “Sportscaster of the Year” in 1998 and ‘99.

 

 

 

Gray chose Tyson to introduce him on Sunday during the induction ceremony. “It’s ironic,” said Gray. “The man who threatened to kill me in public is now inducting me into the Hall of Fame.”

 

 

 

“This award is way, way overdue,” an emotional Tyson said of his good friend. “I’m very proud of you. Well-deserved.”

 

 

 

With this past weekend’s induction ceremony, SHOWTIME Sports now boasts five current Hall of Famers featured on the network: Gray, Bernstein, Farhood, Tompkins and Lennon Jr.

 

 

 

“I am so pleased for Jim and Steve that they received this great honor,” said David Dinkins Jr., Senior Vice President and Executive Producer of SHOWTIME Sports. “Jim Gray’s interviews and reporting have been an integral part of our SHOWTIME telecast from the beginning. Because of his skills and instincts we have been able to cover the events in depth. There have been countless times that Jim’s dogged pursuit of a story has enabled us to paint the complete picture of the event.”

 

 

 

Gray has forged one of the most memorable sports broadcasting careers in recent history, which includes a deep boxing resume. Gray has worked more than 1,200 fights and interviewed over 1,500 fighters throughout his career, including 20 of his fellow Hall of Famers, such as Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman and future Hall of Famer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and many others ringside.

 

 

 

Outside of the ring, Gray has covered nearly every sport and landed some of the industry’s most lucrative interviews, including sit-downs with Michael Phelps, Tiger Woods, Tom Brady and Michael Jordan.

 

 

 

Albert spent two decades calling fights for SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING. Albert called more than 300 fights during his tenure with SHOWTIME, including Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Greg Haugen in front of 130,000 fans at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, Tyson-Holyfield I & II and the epic Corrales vs. Castillo series.

 

 

 

“Steve Albert’s incredible preparation and perfect timing were the reasons for his memorable fight calls,” Dinkins said. “Steve was the voice of SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING through the high profile fights of the Tyson and Chavez eras. He will be forever linked to those shows which helped establish our network as a major broadcaster of boxing.”

 

 

 

Both Gray and Albert earned induction into the Observer category, which recognizes outstanding achievements of print and media journalists, publishers, scriptoribus, historians, photographers and artists.

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JIM GRAY AND STEVE ALBERT ELECTED TO INTERNATIONAL BOXING HALL OF FAME

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Veteran SHOWTIME Sports® Reporter Jim Gray and Former Play-By-Play Announcer Steve Albert Join 2018 Class Alongside Vitali Klitschko, Eric Morales and Ronald “Winky” Wright

SHOWTIME Sports veteran reporter Jim Gray and former, long-time play-by-play announcer Steve Albert were elected to the 2018 class of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, it was announced by the Hall on Tuesday.

Gray and Albert earned induction into the Observer category, which recognizes outstanding achievements of print and electronic media journalists, sportscasters, publishers, scriptoribus, historians, photographers and artists. Gray and Albert will join SHOWTIME Sports boxing analyst Al Bernstein (2012), ring announcer Jimmy Lennon Jr. (2013), analyst and historian Steve Farhood (2017) and announcer Barry Tompkins (2017) in the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

Former heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, four-division world champion Eric Morales and former undisputed super welterweight world champion Ronald “Winky” Wright headline the 2018 induction class. The newly elected class will be inducted during Hall of Fame Weekend June 7-10, 2018, in Canastota, N.Y..

“All of us at SHOWTIME Sports who have worked with Jim and Steve over the years are thrilled that they are receiving this well-deserved honor,” said David Dinkins Jr., Executive producentis, Sports SHOWTIME. “Both were instrumental in building the SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® franchesia. Jim’s interviews have become classic post-fight drama while Steve’s fight calls are integral to some of the most significant moments in boxing history.”

Gray has been a reporter for SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING since 1994, et sicut fecit, 11 Emmy Awards throughout his career, including one for his interview of Mike Tyson following the heavyweight’s infamous “bite fight” loss to Evander Holyfield. The National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association also named that interview the “Sports Broadcast Story of the Year.” Superaddita, the American Sportscasters Association voted Gray “Sportscaster of the Year” in 1998 atque 1999.

Throughout his four-decade career as a reporter, Gray has covered numerous Super Bowls, Mundus Series, Olympia, NBA Finals and NCAA Final Fours, and has interviewed many of the most lauded sports figures of this era including Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Kobe Bryant, Tom Brady, Pete Rose, Michael Jordan and many others.

One of the most recognizable voices in sports, Albert joined SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING shortly after its inception in 1986. In a tenure that spanned over two decades, the world-famous broadcaster called over 300 title fights, including Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Greg Haugen in front of 130,000 fans at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, and Tyson-Holyfield I & II. In 2007, Albert received The Sam Taub Award for excellence in broadcast journalism by the Boxing Writers Association of America.

In addition to boxing, Albert spent 19 seasons covering the NBA, spending 13 of those years with the Nets, five with the Golden State Warriors and one with the New Orleans Hornets. Albert has also done play-by-play for the New York Mets, Jets, Islanders and Rangers, as well as the New Jersey Devils.

The recognition by the International Boxing Hall of Fame is the result of a career’s worth of hard work and accomplishments for Gray and Albert.