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NEW YORK (Nisan 5, 2017) – Veteran boks yöneticisi Stan Hoffman is honored to be selected for induction in the New York State Boxing Hall of Fame (NYSBHOF), Yüzük sponsorluğunda 8, as a member of 15-member Class of 2017. The sixth annual NYSBHOF induction dinner will be held Pazar öğleden sonra (12:30-5:30 um. VE), Nisan 30, Howard Beach Russo On Bay, New York.
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, içinde 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 Olimpiyatlar (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. Bob 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 Lennox Lewis. Michael knocked him out in the first round (for Morrison’s WBO heavyweight title). VeHasim Rahman is like my kid. Itibaren İran Barkley için James Toney, I have stories about all of them.”
Living boxers heading into the NYSBHOF include Manhattan welterweightGaspar “El Indio” Ortega (131-39-6, 69 KOs), Yonkers’ dünya ağır sıklet unvan yarışmacısı Renaldo “Bay.” Snipes (39-8-1, 22 KOs), Yonkers middleweightDoug “Kobra’ Dewitt (33-8-5, 19 KOs), ve “Bronx Bombacı,” world middleweight title challenger Alex Ramos (39-10-2, 24 KOs)
Posthumous participants being inducted are Queens’ former middleweight and light heavyweight world champion Dick Kaplan (60-19-3, 27 KOs), Brooklyn/Manhattan light heavyweight world champion Jose “Chegui” Torres(41-3-1, 29 KOs), and Williamsburg’s middleweight world champion, “The Nonpareil” Jack Dempsey (51-4-11, 23 KOs).
Non-participants heading into the NYSBHOF along with Hoffman are Queens’ International agent Don Majeskben, Long Island matchmaker Ron Katz, and past Ring 8 president/NYSAC judge Bobby Bartels.
Posthumous non-participant inductees are Brooklyn boxing historian Hank Kaplan, Long Island cut-man Al Gavin, Bronx referee Arthur Donovan and New York City columnist Ve Parker.
Her inductee NYSBHOF içine onun indüksiyon simgeleyen özel tasarlanmış kemer alacaksınız.
The 2017 inductees NYSBHOF aday komitesi üyeleri tarafından seçildi: Jack Hirsch, Steve Farhood, Bobby Cassidy, Jr., Randy Gordon, Henry Hascup, Ron McNair, Angelo Prospero ve neil TereNS.
en az üç yıl süreyle pasif olması gerekiyordu tüm boksörler NYSBHOF indüksiyon için uygun olması için, ve tüm inductees kendi boks kariyerlerinde önemli bir kısmı için ya kendi kariyerinin baharında sırasında New York State ikamet etmiş olmalıdır.
“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, çok. 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, şimdi (he joked), a lot more than if I’d been dead going in. Onur duydum. 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.”
SINIF 2012: Carmen Basilio, Mike McCallum, Mike Tyson, Jake LaMotta, Riddick Bowe, Carlos Ortiz, Vito Antuofermo, Emile Griffith, “Şeker” Ray Robinson, Gene Tunney, Benny Leonard, Tony Canzoneri, Harold Lederman, Steve Acunto, Jimmy Glenn, Gil Clancy, Ray ARÇEL, Uyruk Fleischer, Bill Gallo ve Arthur Mercante, Sr.
SINIF 2013: Jack Dempsey, Johnny Dundee, Sandy Saraç, Maxie Rosenbloom, Joey Archer, İran Barkley, Mark Breland, Bobby Cassidy, Doug Jones, Gençler Jones, James “Arkadaş” McGirt, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Bob Arum, Shelly Finkel, Tony Graziano, Larry Tüccar, Teddy Brenner, Mike Jacobs, Tex Rickard ve Don Dunphy.
SINIF 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 ve Tom O'Rourke.
SINIF 2015: Saul Mamby, Joey Giambra, Johnny Persol, Harold Weston, Lonnie Bradley, Paul 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 ve Al Weill.
SINIF 2016: Aaron Davis, Charles Murray, Vilomar Fernandez, Edwin Viruet, sindirmek “Macho” Camacho, Rocky Graziano, Rocky Kansas, Joe Lynch, Joe Miceli, Ed Brophy, Joe DeGuardia, Randy Gordon, Dennis Rappaport, Howie Albert, Freddie Kahverengi, Howard Cosell, Yakut Goldstein ve Jimmy Jacobs.
Biletler fiyatlandırılır $150.00 yetişkin başına ve $70.00 Çocuk (altında 16), ve girişte tam bir brunch ve kokteyl saat dahil, başlayan 12:30 PM/VE, yanı sıra akşam yemeği (Başbakan kaburga, Balık veya kümes hayvanları) and open bar throughout the evening. Biletler NYSBHOF / Yüzük arayarak satın almak için kullanılabilir 8 En başkanı Bob Duffy 516.313.2304. NYSBHOF programı için Reklamlar mevcuttur, arasında değişen $80.00 için $250.00, Duffy ile temasa geçerek. Satırında git www.Ring8ny.com Fame New York Eyalet Boks Hall hakkında ek bilgi için. |
