न्यूयॉर्क (एप्रिल 5, 2017) – ज्येष्ठ बॉक्सिंग व्यवस्थापक Stan हॉफमन is honored to be selected for induction in the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame (NYSBHOF), रिंग पुरस्कृत 8, as a member of 15-member Class of 2017. The sixth annual NYSBHOF induction dinner will be held रविवारी दुपारी (12:30-5:30 p.m. आणि), एप्रिल 30, हॉवर्ड बीच Russo वर द बाय येथे, न्यू यॉर्क.

Hoffman, 86, has managed, advised or promoted 38 world champions during nearly 50 years working in the boxing industry. A product of Brooklyn and Bronx, Hoffman still advises some boxes and attends fights, but he enjoys spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren.

“I’m told that I’ve had 38 world champions and I have a story for each one of them,” Hoffman said. “Almost from the beginning, मध्ये 1980, I had success in boxing. Joe Manley is special because he was the first fighter I signed and also my first world champion. Team USA didn’t send a team to the 1980 ऑलिंपिक (because of a boycott) and Joe was lost. Nobody expected him to on to win the world junior welterweight title like he did. The pinnacle of my career was my first heavyweight champion, Michael Benntt. बॉब Arum called asking if I wanted to make some money using Bentt in a tune-up fight for Tommy Morrison, who had a big money fight lined up with लिनॉक्स लेविस. Michael knocked him out in the first round (for Morrison’s WBO heavyweight title). आणिHasim Rahman is like my kid. पासून इराण Barkley करण्यासाठी जेम्स Toney, I have stories about all of them.”

Living boxers heading into the NYSBHOF include Manhattan welterweightGaspar “El Indio” Ortega (131-39-6, 69 कॉस), Yonkers’ world heavyweight title challenger Renaldo “श्री.” Snipes (39-8-1, 22 कॉस), Yonkers middleweightDoug “Cobra’ Dewitt (33-8-5, 19 कॉस), आणि “Bronx बॉम्बफेकी विमान,” world middleweight title challenger अॅलेक्स Ramos (39-10-2, 24 कॉस)

Posthumous participants being inducted are Queens’ former middleweight and light heavyweight world champion डिक वाघ (60-19-3, 27 कॉस), Brooklyn/Manhattan light heavyweight world champion जोस “Chegui” टॉरेस(41-3-1, 29 कॉस), and Williamsburg’s middleweight world champion, “The Nonpareil” जॅक Dempsey (51-4-11, 23 कॉस).

Non-participants heading into the NYSBHOF along with Hoffman are Queens’ International agent Don Majeski, Long Island matchmaker रॉन Katz, and past Ring 8 president/NYSAC judge बॉबी Bartels.

Posthumous non-participant inductees are Brooklyn boxing historian गुंडा कॅप्लन, Long Island cut-man अल गेव्हिन, Bronx referee Arthur Donovan and New York City columnist Dan Parker.

प्रत्येक inductee NYSBHOF त्याच्या प्रतिष्ठापना दाखवायचे सानुकूल डिझाइन पट्टा प्राप्त होईल.

द 2017 inductees NYSBHOF उमेदवारीबाबत समिती सदस्य, यांनी निवड करण्यात आली: जॅक Hirsch, स्टीव्ह Farhood, बॉबी Cassidy, जूनियर., गावंढळ गॉर्डन, हेन्री Hascup, रॉन McNair, अँजेलो Prospero आणि नील Terens.

किमान तीन वर्षे निष्क्रिय असल्याचे आवश्यक सर्व समाधानी NYSBHOF प्रतिष्ठापना करण्यासाठी पात्र, आणि सर्व inductees त्यांच्या बॉक्सिंग कारकीर्द लक्षणीय भाग किंवा त्यांच्या संबंधित कारकीर्द मुख्य दरम्यान न्यू यॉर्क राज्यात वास्तव्य करणे आवश्यक आहे.

“After spending so many years of my life in boxing,” Hoffman concluded, “I was fortunate to have so many world champions. It was a lot of hard work but I had a lot of luck, खूप. I’ve met so many good people in boxing. I’ll tell you, I’m going to enjoy being inducted into the New York State Hall of Fame, आता (he joked), a lot more than if I’d been dead going in. I’m honored. It’s also special for me to be inducted in the same class as Ron Katz, who was my matchmaker, Doug DeWitt – I worked with him as a manager and he won the world title – and my good friend, Reynaldo Snipes. The New York State Boxing Hall of Fame induction dinner is a great time and I’m really looking forward to it.”

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