Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame
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Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame was founded in 2001 and began inducting boxers into the Hall of Fame in 2003. Since then annual induction dinners have been held.
The Hall of Fame has a display of boxing memorabilia open to the public via a showcase at the National Sports Museum
at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
(MCG).
The Hall of Fame has a display of boxing memorabilia open to the public via a showcase at the National Sports Museum
National Sports Museum
The National Sports Museum is a museum dedicated to Australian sport and is located within the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia. It features exhibitions and galleries of items related mainly to Australian Rules Football, Cricket, the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, the Sport...
at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
Melbourne Cricket Ground
The Melbourne Cricket Ground is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne and is home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the tenth largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest stadium for playing cricket, and holds the world record for the highest light...
(MCG).
Pioneers
- Young GriffoYoung GriffoAlbert Griffiths , better known as Young Griffo, was a world featherweight boxing champion.-Professional career:...
(2003) - Larry Foley (2003)
- Peter JacksonPeter Jackson (boxer)Peter "Black Prince" Jackson was a heavyweight boxer from Australia who had a significant international career.-Biography:...
(2004) - Frank Slavin (2005)
- Joe Goddard (2006)
- Jim HallJim Hall (boxer)Montague James Furlong , commonly known as Jim Hall, was an Australian middleweight boxer. He won the Australian middleweight title in 1887 before moving to the United States in an attempt to capture the World title from Jack Dempsey...
(2007) - Jim Barron (2007)
- Bill Farnan (2008)
- Jack McGowanJohn Reid McGowanJohn Reid "Gentleman Jack" McGowan was an Australian boxing champion. During his long career in the ring he fought over 110 battles, and was the first fighter to win three Australian titles at different weights, holding the titles of bantam, feather, and light-weight champion of...
(2008) - Bill Doherty (2009)
- Tim Hegarty (2010)
- Dan Creedon (2011)
Old Timers
- Les DarcyLes DarcyJames Leslie Darcy was an Australian boxer. He was a middleweight, but held the Australian Heavyweight Championship title at the same time....
(2003) - Ambrose PalmerAmbrose PalmerAmbrose Palmer was an Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray in the VFL, making his debut as a rover for Footscray in the 1933 season....
(2003) - Jack Carroll (2003)
- Billy Grime (2003)
- Bill LangBill LangBill Lang was an Australian professional boxer who held the national heavyweight title. He was also an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League ....
(2004) - Hugh Dwyer (2004)
- Tommy UrenTom UrenThomas Uren, AO was a Deputy Leader of the Australian Labor Party. He helped establish the heritage and conservation movement in Australia and, in particular, worked to preserve the heritage of inner Sydney.-Early life:...
(2005) - Fred Henneberry (2005)
- Jackie Green (2006)
- Bill Squires (2006)
- George Mendies (2007)
- Herb McCoy (2007)
- Sid Godfrey (2008)
- Jerry JeromeJerry JeromeJerry Jerome was the 1912 Australian middleweight boxing champion. Born just outside Dalby, Queensland he was the first Indigenous Australian to win a major boxing title. He died in Cherbourg, Queensland. In his professional career he had 24 losses and 40 wins, with 34 by knock-out.- References :...
(2008) - Dave Smith (2009)
- Hughie Mehegan (2009)
- Mickey Miller (2010)
- Merv Blandon (2010)
- Fred Kay (2011)
Veterans
- Ron Richards (2003)
- Vic Patrick (2003)
- Jimmy CarruthersJimmy CarruthersJames "Jimmy" William Carruthers was an Australian boxer, who became world champion in the bantamweight division.-Amateur career:...
(2003) - Dave SandsDave SandsDave Sands, born David Ritchie, was an Australian Aborigine boxer. He established himself as a leading contender for the World Middleweight Title, only to die prematurely in a motor vehicle accident at the age of 26....
(2003) - Tommy BurnsTommy Burns (Australian boxer)Tommy Burns was the professional name of the Australian boxer Geoffrey Mostyn Murphy . He was born in Mullumbimby, New South Wales, but spent most of his life in the neighbouring Australian state of Queensland....
(2004, born Geoffrey Murphy) - George Barnes (2004)
- Elley Bennett (2005)
- Jack Hassenn (2005)
- Pat Ford (2006)
- Trevor King (2006)
- Mickey Tollis (2007)
- Frank Flannery (2007)
- George Bracken (2008)
- Eddie Miller (2008)
- Bobby Sinn (2009)
- Clive Stewart (2009)
- Tony MadiganAnthony MadiganAnthony Madigan is an Australian boxer, who competed at 3 Olympics, winning the light heavyweight bronze medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics...
(2010) - Rocky GattellariRocky GattellariRocco "Rocky" Gattellari is an Australian former boxer, Olympian, political candidate and businessman.-Olympic Games:Gattellari was selected in the Australian team for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy...
(2010) - Jeff White (2011)
Modern
- Johnny FamechonJohnny FamechonJohnny Famechon, born 28 March 1945, is a former Australian featherweight boxer, who was born as Jean-Pierre Famechon in Paris, France.He moved to Australia in 1950 at the age of five. Over his twenty-year career he developed a reputation for being a skilled boxer whose strength was his defence...
(2003) - Lionel RoseLionel RoseLionel Edmund Rose MBE was an Australian bantamweight boxer, the first Indigenous Australian to win a world title.-Early life:...
(2003) - Barry MichaelBarry MichaelBarry Michael is a former Australian boxer. He was in his prime during the 1980s and is best remembered for his 1985 fight against Lester Ellis, which received nationwide television coverage in Australia.-Early life:...
(2003) - Rocky MattioliRocky MattioliRocky Mattioli an Italian-Australian former boxer at junior middleweight, and former world champion.- Career :...
(2004) - Jeff HardingJeff Harding (boxer)Jeff Harding was a world champion boxer from Australia, known as "Hit Man". Jeff lived in South Grafton N.S.W. Australia and was a student at South Grafton High School...
(2004) - Tony MundineTony Mundine (boxer)Anthony "Tony" William Mundine OAM is one of Australia's boxing legends and one of the greatest Indigenous fighters. He held the Australian middleweight, light heavyweight, cruiserweight and heavyweight titles and Commonwealth middleweight and Light heavyweight titles and is the only Australian...
(2005) - Hector Thompson (2005)
- Paul Ferreri (2006)
- Bobby Dunlop (2006)
- Lester EllisLester EllisLester Ellis is a boxer, who lives in Melbourne, Australia. He was world boxing champion in 1985 winning the IBF super lightweight world title and also won the WBF Welterweight division 1993, IBO Light Welterweight division in 1994, IBO Lightweight division in 1995.Ellis earned early success as...
(2007) - Jeff Malcolm (2007)
- Lawrence Austin (2008)
- Charkey Ramon (2008)
- Henry Nissen (2009)
- Troy WatersTroy WatersTroy Weston Waters is a retired light middleweight boxer and member of the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame...
(2009) - Kostya Tszyu (2010)
- Wally CarrWally CarrWally "Wait-awhile-Wal" Carr is a former boxer. An Aboriginal Australian, he was born 11 August 1954 in Wellington, NSW. Described by Boxing 1970-1980 as having "boxing ability to burn" and "outstanding skills",1 Wally Carr had 101 professional fights...
(2010) - Steve Aczel (2011)
Non-Participants
- HD McIntosh (2003)
- Snowy BakerReginald BakerReginald Leslie "Snowy" Baker was an Australian athlete, sports promoter and film actor, who was born in Surry Hills, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales...
(2003) - Jack Dunleavy (2003)
- Ron Casey (2004)
- John WrenJohn WrenJohn Wren was an Australian businessman. He has become a legendary figure thanks mainly to a fictionalised account of his life in Frank Hardy's novel Power Without Glory, which was also made into a television series...
(2004) - Merv William (2005)
- Ray Mitchell (2005)
- Johny Lewis (2006)
- Bill Mordey (2007)
- Ray Connelly (2007)
- Gus MercurioGus MercurioAugustino Eugenio "Gus" Mercurio was an American-born Australian character actor who appeared on both film and television.-Early life :...
(2008) - Jack Rennie (2008)
- William Lawless (2009)
- John McDougall (2009)
- Ern McQuillan Sr (2010)
- Billy Males (2010)
- Jimmy SharmanJimmy SharmanJames Sharman senior and junior were father and son Australian boxing troupe impresarios....
(2011)
Honorary Internationals
- Jack JohnsonJack Johnson (boxer)John Arthur Johnson , nicknamed the “Galveston Giant,” was an American boxer. At the height of the Jim Crow era, Johnson became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion...
(2003) - Freddie Dawson (2003)
- Sam LangfordSam LangfordSam Langford was a Black Canadian boxing standout of the early part of the 20th century. Called the "Greatest Fighter Nobody Knows," by ESPN. He was rated #2 by The Ring on their list of "100 greatest punchers of all time". Langford was originally from Weymouth Falls, a small community in Nova...
(2004) - Archie MooreArchie MooreArchie Moore, born Archibald Lee Wright , was light heavyweight world boxing champion who had one of the longest professional careers in the history of that sport....
(2005) - Bob FitzsimmonsBob FitzsimmonsRobert James "Bob" Fitzsimmons , was a British boxer who made boxing history as the sport's first three-division world champion. He also achieved fame for beating Gentleman Jim Corbett, the man who beat John L. Sullivan, and is in The Guinness Book of World Records as the Lightest heavyweight...
(2006) - Tod MorganTod MorganAlbert Morgan Pilkington, better known as "Tod Morgan," , was an American boxer.-Background:According to the April 7, 1927 Spokane Spokesman-Review, Morgan was born in Dungeness, WA--which is adjacent to Sequim...
(2007) - Ted "Kid" Lewis (2007)
- Tommy BurnsTommy Burns (boxer)Tommy Burns , born Noah Brusso, is the only Canadian born world heavyweight champion boxer. The first to travel the globe in defending his title, Tommy made 11 title defenses despite often being the underdog due to his size. Burns famously challenged all comers as Heavyweight Champion, leading to...
(2009) - Jimmy Clabby (2010)
- Clarence Reeves (2011)