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The modern International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) is located in Canastota
Canastota, New York

Canastota is a village located inside the Lenox, New York in Madison County, New York, United States. The population was 4,425 at the 2000 census....
, New York
New York

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, United States
United States

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, within driving distance from the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown and the National Soccer Hall of Fame
National Soccer Hall of Fame

The National Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum is a hall of fame in Oneonta, New York which honors the achievements of soccer in the United States....
 in Oneonta
Oneonta, New York

Oneonta is a city located within Otsego County, New York , New York, USA. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, had a population of 13,292. The nickname is "City of the Hills"....
. The IBHOF is one of two recognized international boxing halls of fame, with the other being the World Boxing Hall of Fame
World Boxing Hall of Fame

The World Boxing Hall of Fame is located in Riverside, California, United States, in Southern California. The WBHF is one of two recognized international boxing hall of fames, with the other being the International Boxing Hall of Fame, with the IBHOF being the more widely recognized institution....
.

The first Boxing Hall of Fame was sponsored by Ring magazine and located for decades at the offices of the Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City....
 in New York City, New York.






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The modern International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) is located in Canastota
Canastota, New York

Canastota is a village located inside the Lenox, New York in Madison County, New York, United States. The population was 4,425 at the 2000 census....
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, within driving distance from the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown and the National Soccer Hall of Fame
National Soccer Hall of Fame

The National Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum is a hall of fame in Oneonta, New York which honors the achievements of soccer in the United States....
 in Oneonta
Oneonta, New York

Oneonta is a city located within Otsego County, New York , New York, USA. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, had a population of 13,292. The nickname is "City of the Hills"....
. The IBHOF is one of two recognized international boxing halls of fame, with the other being the World Boxing Hall of Fame
World Boxing Hall of Fame

The World Boxing Hall of Fame is located in Riverside, California, United States, in Southern California. The WBHF is one of two recognized international boxing hall of fames, with the other being the International Boxing Hall of Fame, with the IBHOF being the more widely recognized institution....
.

The first Boxing Hall of Fame was sponsored by Ring magazine and located for decades at the offices of the Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City....
 in New York City, New York. However, in 1990, as a consequence of an initiative by Ed Brophy to honor Canastota's world boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
 champions, Carmen Basilio
Carmen Basilio

Carmine Basilio, born April 2 1927 in Canastota, New York, better known in the boxing world as Carmen Basilio, is a former boxer of Italy-United States origin....
 and Basilio's nephew, Billy Backus
Billy Backus

Billy Backus, born March 5, 1943 in Canastota, New York, is a former world boxing champion. In the summer of 2006 Backus retired from his correctional facility job and moved to South Carolina....
, the village of Canastota inaugurated the new museum, which showcases boxing's rich history. Multi-award winning artist Richard T. Slone
Richard T. Slone

Richard T. Slone is an England Painting who has established himself as one of the world?s most sought-after up and coming artists, a multi-award winner whose paintings are now widely collected throughout the world....
 was named their official artist of the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1997 and remains so to this day.

There are ceremonies conducted every year to honor the inductees and the ceremonies are attended by many former world boxing champions, boxing celebrities and Hollywood celebrities each year.

Professional boxers have to wait five years after retirement to be eligible for election into the Hall of Fame.

On December 9, 2008, the Hall of Fame announced its Class of 2009. Living inductees include bantamweight champion Orlando Canizales
Orlando Canizales

Orlando Canizales is an United States Boxing who won the International Boxing Federation bantamweight title and defended it a record sixteen consecutive times....
 (USA), heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis
Lennox Lewis

Lennox Claudius Lewis, Order of Canada, Order of the British Empire is a retired boxing who won gold for Canada at the Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics as an amateur boxing....
 (UK), junior lightweight champion Brian Mitchell
Brian Mitchell (boxer)

Brian Mitchell is a former professional Boxing.Mitchell turned pro in 1981 and captured the WBA Super Featherweight Title in 1986 with a TKO over Alfredo Layne....
 (South Africa), publicist / matchmaker / promoter Bob Goodman (USA), promoter Akihiko Honda (Japan), journalist Hugh McIlvanney
Hugh McIlvanney

Hugh McIlvanney, born in Kilmarnock, Scotland in 1933, is an award-winning, sports writer. He currently holds a long-running column on the back page of The Sunday Times sports section....
 (UK) and broadcaster Larry Merchant
Larry Merchant

Larry Merchant is an American former sportswriter, a longtime commentator for HBO Sports presentations of HBO World Championship Boxing, Boxing After Dark and HBO pay-per-view telecasts, and is considered "the greatest television boxing analyst of all time" by ESPN Boxing analyst Dan Rafael....
 (USA). Posthumous honorees are: middleweight champion Gorilla Jones
Gorilla Jones

William Jones...
, welterweight champion Mysterious Billy Smith
Mysterious Billy Smith

Mysterious Billy Smith was a Canadian Boxing. He turned pro in 1890, and in his ninth fight he knocked out Danny Needham to win the welterweight championship in 1892....
, middleweight champion Billy Soose
Billy Soose

Billy Soose was an American boxer who won the world middleweight championship in 1941.After a collegiate boxing career, Soose became a professional boxer in 1938....
 in the Old-Timer Category; manager Billy Gibson
Billy Gibson

William 'Billy' Gibson , is a Scotland football er currently playing for Clyde F.C.. He can play as a defender or a midfielder....
 and commissioner Abe J. Greene in the Non-Participant Category; journalist Paul Gallico
Paul Gallico

Paul William Gallico was a successful American novelist, short story and sports writer. Many of his works were adapted for motion pictures. He is perhaps best remembered for The Snow Goose, his only real critical success, and for the novel The Poseidon Adventure, primarily through the 1972 film adaptation....
 in the Observer Category; and Tom Hyer
Tom Hyer

Tom Hyer was an American Bare-knuckle boxing. He was a champion of boxing in America from September 9 1841 to 1851. He was an ancestor of the great Turbert Family....
 in the Pioneer Category.

Iductees

* year of induction in brackets

Modern era

  • Muhammad Ali
    Muhammad Ali

    Muhammad Ali is a retired United States boxing and former three-time List of heavyweight boxing champions.As an amateur, Ali won a gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games in the light heavyweight division gold medal....
     (1990)
  • Sammy Angott
    Sammy Angott

    Sammy Angott was born Samuel Engotti in Pennsylvania. He was known as a clever boxer who liked to follow up a clean punch by grabbing his opponent, causing him to be known as "The Clutch."...
     (1998)
  • Fred Apostoli
    Fred Apostoli

    Fred Apostoli, "The Boxing Bell Hop" was a rugged, accomplished body punching middleweight, who was recognized as the world champion when he defeated Marcel Thil on September 23, 1937....
     (2003)
  • Alexis Arguello (1992)
  • Henry Armstrong
    Henry Armstrong

    Henry Jackson Jr. was a world boxing champion who fought under the name Henry Armstrong.The son of an African-American sharecropper and an Iroquois Native American, Henry Jr....
     (1990)
  • Carmen Basilio
    Carmen Basilio

    Carmine Basilio, born April 2 1927 in Canastota, New York, better known in the boxing world as Carmen Basilio, is a former boxer of Italy-United States origin....
     (1990)
  • Wilfred Benítez
    Wilfred Benitez

    Wilfred Ben?tez , is a Puerto Rican people boxing. He is remembered best as a skilled and aggressive fighter with exceptional defensive abilities who won world championships in three separate weight divisions, and was the youngest world champion in boxing history....
     (1994)
  • Nino Benvenuti
    Nino Benvenuti

    Giovanni Benvenuti , better known as Nino Benvenuti, is an Italy former Boxing who is considered by many, including noted boxing writer Brian Doogan, to be the greatest boxer ever from Italy....
     (1996)
  • Jackie Kid Berg (1992)
  • Jimmy Bivins
    Jimmy Bivins

    James Louis Bivins, , was an United States heavyweight boxing whose professional career ran from 1940 to 1955. Although he was never given the opportunity to fight for a world title, despite at one point being the number one contender in both the light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions, Bivins fought and defeated many of the great fighte...
     (1999)
  • Joe Brown
    Joe Brown (boxer)

    Joe Brown was an accomplished boxer who won the undisputed Lightweight Championship of the World in 1956, making 11 successful defences before losing his crown in his old age to Carlos Ortiz in 1962....
     (1996)
  • Ken Buchanan
    Ken Buchanan

    Ken Buchanan is a former world boxing champion. Many consider Buchanan to be the best boxer ever to come out of Scotland.Boxing career ...
     (2000)
  • Charley Burley
    Charley Burley

    Charley Burley was a boxer of the 1940s, compiling a record of 83 wins , 12 losses, and 2 draws with 1 "no contest". However, because he was so formidable, Burley was never granted a title shot by any of the welterweight and middleweight champions of that era and was also avoided by many of the top white contenders ....
     (1992)
  • Miguel Canto
    Miguel Canto

    Miguel Angel Canto Solis is a former world boxing champion from Mexico.Contrary to many Mexican boxers, Canto was not a "slam-bang" type of boxer ....
     (1998)
  • Orlando Canizales
    Orlando Canizales

    Orlando Canizales is an United States Boxing who won the International Boxing Federation bantamweight title and defended it a record sixteen consecutive times....
     (2009)
  • Michael Carbajal
    Michael Carbajal

    Michael Carbajal is a Phoenix, Arizona, Arizona, United States native who is a retired four-time world boxing champion. He is nickname "Little Hands Of Stone," after his favorite boxer, the legendary "Hands Of Stone," Panamanian Roberto Dur?n....
     (2006)
  • Jimmy Carter
    Jimmy Carter (boxer)

    James Walter Carter was a world lightweight boxing champion. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall Of Fame in 2000. Carter's loss to Lauro Salas in 1952 and his loss to Paddy DeMarco in 1954 were each named Ring Magazine upset of the year....
     (2000)
  • Marcel Cerdan
    Marcel Cerdan

    Marcellin "Marcel" Cerdan was a France pied noir world boxing champion who was considered by many boxing experts and fans to be France's as well as Europe's greatest boxer, and beyond to be one of the best to have learned his craft in Africa....
     (1991)
  • Antonio Cervantes
    Antonio Cervantes

    Antonio Cervantes aka Kid Pambel? is a Colombian boxing trainer and former two time world Jr. Welterweight champion. Cervantes, who is Afro-Colombian, was born in Palenque, also known as the first site of a slave rebellion in Latin America....
     (1998)
  • Bobby Chacon
    Bobby Chacon

    Bobby Chacon in Sylmar, CA, USA, was a two time world boxing champion. Chacon is a native of California, where he campaigned most of his career....
     (2005)
  • Jeff Chandler
    Jeff Chandler (boxer)

    "Joltin'" Jeff Chandler is a former Boxing. Chandler reigned as the World Boxing Association Bantamweight Champion from November 1980 to April 1984....
     (2000)
  • Ezzard Charles
    Ezzard Charles

    Ezzard Mack Charles was an African-American professional boxer and former List of Heavyweight Champions of the world.He was born in Lawrenceville, Georgia, Georgia , but is commonly thought of as a Cincinnati, Ohio....
     (1990)
  • Billy Conn
    Billy Conn

    William David Conn , better known in the boxing world as Billy Conn, was a Light-Heavyweight boxing champion famed for his fights with Joe Louis....
     (1990)
  • Pipino Cuevas (2002)
  • Roberto Durán
    Roberto Durán

    Roberto Dur?n is a retired professional boxing from Panama, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. During his career he was nicknamed "Manos de Piedra", "Hands of Stone"....
     (2007)
  • Flash Elorde (1993)
  • Jeff Fenech
    Jeff Fenech

    Jeff Fenech aka 'The Marrickville Mauler' is a three time world champion in boxing and is now a boxing trainer....
     (2002)
  • George Foreman
    George Foreman

    George Edward Foreman is an United States two-time World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Olympic gold medalist, and entrepreneur.He is the oldest man ever to win a major heavyweight title when, at 45, he knocked out 26-year-old Michael Moorer in the 10th round....
     (2003)
  • Bob Foster
    Bob Foster

    Bob Foster is a native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA whom many boxing critics consider to be one of the greatest Light Heavyweight world champions in history....
     (1990)
  • Joe Frazier
    Joe Frazier

    Joseph William Frazier, known as Smokin' Joe, is a former Olympic and World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, active mostly from the later 1960s to the mid 1970s....
     (1990)
  • Gene Fullmer
    Gene Fullmer

    Gene Fullmer is a former United States middleweight Boxing.Fullmer was born in West Jordan, Utah Utah and raised as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ....
     (1991)
  • Khaosai Galaxy
    Khaosai Galaxy

    Khaosai Galaxy is a former professional Thai people super flyweight boxer and Muaythai kickboxer. Khaosai defended his WBA world title 19 times in seven years , winning 16 of his title fights by knockouts....
     (1999)
  • Victor Galindez
    Víctor Galíndez

    V?ctor Emilio Gal?ndez was an Argentina boxing who was the third Latin American to win the world's Light Heavyweight title, after Puerto Rico's Jose Torres and Venezuela's Vicente Rondon had done it....
     (2002)
  • Kid Gavilán
    Kid Gavilan

    Gerardo Gonz?lez , better known in the boxing world as Kid Gavilan, was a former gardener and world welterweight champion from Cuba. He was a native of the city of Camag?ey....
     (1990)
  • Joey Giardello
    Joey Giardello

    Carmine Orlando Tilelli was an United States boxing who was the List of middleweight boxing champions from 1963 to 1965, and was better known by his professional pseudonym of Joey Giardello....
     (1993)
  • Wilfredo Gómez
    Wilfredo Gómez

    Wilfredo G?mez is a former boxing and three time world champion. Nicknamed "Bazooka", G?mez had one of the highest knockout win percentages in professional boxing, winning 88 percent of his bouts by knockout....
     (1995)
  • Humberto Gonzalez
    Humberto Gonzalez

    Humberto Gonzalez is a Mexico former world boxing champion. Nicknamed Chiquita, he made many admirers during his professional boxing career....
     (2006)
  • Billy Graham
    Billy Graham (boxer)

    Billy Graham was an United States boxer from New York City, New York. Graham had the remarkable distinction of never having been knocked off his feet in his long career....
     (1992)
  • Rocky Graziano
    Rocky Graziano

    Rocky Graziano, born Thomas Rocco Barbella in New York City , was an United States Boxing. Graziano was considered one of the greatest knockout artists in boxing history, often displaying the capacity to take his opponent out with a single punch....
     (1991)
  • Emile Griffith
    Emile Griffith

    Emile Alphonse Griffith is a former boxer from the U.S. Virgin Islands who won world championships in both the Welterweight and Middleweight divisions....
     (1990)
  • Marvin Hagler
    Marvin Hagler

    Marvelous Marvin Hagler , is a former United States boxing. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest middleweights of all time and finished his career with a record of 62-3-2 with 52 knockouts....
     (1993)
  • Fighting Harada
    Fighting Harada

    Masahiko Harada , better known as Fighting Harada, is a former world boxing champion. He is currently the president of the Japanese boxing commission....
     (1995)
  • Larry Holmes
    Larry Holmes

    Larry Holmes is a former world heavyweight boxing champion. Holmes has spent the majority of his adult life in Easton, Pennsylvania, in the state's Lehigh Valley region, giving rise to his boxing nickname, The Easton Assassin....
     (2008)
  • Beau Jack
    Beau Jack

    Sidney Walker, better known as Beau Jack, , was an United States lightweight boxing, he was a world champion twice. One of the most popular fighters during the World War II, he headlined at Madison Square Garden on 21 occasions, a record that still stands....
     (1991)
  • Lew Jenkins
    Lew Jenkins

    Lew Jenkins was an American boxer and Lightweight Champion of the World. He was born in Milburn, Texas and was raised in Great Depression-era Texas....
     (1999)
  • Eder Jofre
    Eder Jofre

    ?der Jofre is a Brazilian former Boxing....
     (1992)
  • Ingemar Johansson
    Ingemar Johansson

    Jens Ingemar Johansson was a Swedish people Boxing and former List of Heavyweight Champions. He defeated Floyd Patterson to win the World Heavyweight Championship....
     (2002)
  • Harold Johnson
    Harold Johnson (boxer)

    Harold Johnson was a professional boxing.Johnson won his first twenty four fights before losing a ten round decision to Archie Moore, who would be Johnson's biggest career rival....
     (1993)
  • Ismael Laguna
    Ismael Laguna

    Ismael Laguna Meneses was a professional boxing. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2001.Known as "El Tigre Colonense", Laguna was the Panamanian Featherweight Champion from 1962-63....
     (2001)
  • Jake LaMotta
    Jake LaMotta

    Giacobe LaMotta , better known as Jake LaMotta, nicknamed "The Bronx Bull" and "The Raging Bull", is a former boxing middleweight champion who was portrayed by Robert De Niro in the film Raging Bull....
     (1990)
  • Sugar Ray Leonard
    Sugar Ray Leonard

    Ray Charles Leonard is a retired American professional boxing. Named Fighter of the Decade for the 1980s, he is widely considered to be one of the best boxers of all time, winning world titles at multiple weights and engaging in contests with such celebrated opponents as Wilfred Benitez, Thomas Hearns, Roberto Duran and Marvin Hagler....
     (1997)
  • Lennox Lewis
    Lennox Lewis

    Lennox Claudius Lewis, Order of Canada, Order of the British Empire is a retired boxing who won gold for Canada at the Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics as an amateur boxing....
     (2009)
  • Sonny Liston
    Sonny Liston

    Charles L. "Sonny" Liston was a professional boxing who became List of Heavyweight Champions in 1962 by knocking out Floyd Patterson in the first round....
     (1991)
  • Nicolino Locche
    Nicolino Locche

    Nicolino Locche was an Argentina boxer from Tunuy?n, Mendoza Province in the west of Argentina. He was of Italian origin, because his ancestors came from Sardinia....
     (2003)
  • Duilio Loi
    Duilio Loi

    Duilio Loi was an Italy Boxing who held the Italian and European lightweight and welterweight titles, as well as the world junior welterweight championship....
     (2005)
  • Ricardo Lopez (2007)
  • Joe Louis
    Joe Louis

    Joseph Louis Barrow , better known as Joe Louis, was a List of Heavyweight Champions.Nicknamed the Brown Bomber, he is considered to be one of the greatest in boxing history....
     (1990)
  • Rocky Marciano
    Rocky Marciano

    Rocky Marciano , born Rocco Francis Marchegiano, was the heavyweight champion of the world from 1952 to 1956. Marciano, with forty-three knockouts to his credit , remains the only heavyweight champion in boxing history to retire having won every fight in his professional career....
     (1990)
  • Joey Maxim
    Joey Maxim

    Giuseppe Antonio Berardinelli, , was an USA Boxing. He was a light heavyweight champion of the world. He took the ring-name Joey Maxim from the Maxim gun, the world's first self-acting machine gun, based on his ability to rapidly throw a large number of left jabs....
     (1994)
  • Mike McCallum
    Mike McCallum

    Mike McCallum is a retired Boxing from Jamaica who held world titles in several weight classes....
     (2003)
  • Barry McGuigan
    Barry McGuigan

    Finbar Patrick McGuigan Order of the British Empire, more commonly known as Barry McGuigan , nicknamed the Clones Cyclone, is a former professional boxing who became a world Featherweight champion....
     (2005)
  • Brian Mitchell
    Brian Mitchell (boxer)

    Brian Mitchell is a former professional Boxing.Mitchell turned pro in 1981 and captured the WBA Super Featherweight Title in 1986 with a TKO over Alfredo Layne....
     (2009)
  • Bob Montgomery
    Bob Montgomery (boxer)

    Bob Montgomery was an American boxer from Philadelphia. He was born in Sumter, South Carolina.Bob Montgomery went undefeated in his first 23 fights, going 22-0-1 and winning the Pennsylvania State Lightweight Title....
     (1995)
  • Carlos Monzon
    Carlos Monzón

    Carlos Monz?n was an Argentina boxing who held the world middleweight title for 7 years, during which he made a then-division record of 14 defenses....
     (1990)
  • Archie Moore
    Archie Moore

    Archie Moore, Born Archibald Wright , was light heavyweight world boxing champion between 1952 and 1959 and had one of the longest professional careers in the history of his sport....
     (1990)
  • Matthew Saad Muhammad
    Matthew Saad Muhammad

    Matthew Saad Muhammad is a former Boxing who was the world's light heavyweight champion.Saad Muhammad's mother died when he was 5 years old, and he and his elder brother were sent to live with an aunt....
     (1998)
  • Jose Napoles
    José Napoles

    Jos? ?ngel N?poles, nicknamed Mantequilla , is a Cuban former world welterweight boxing champion. Napoles is a national hero both in Cuba and Mexico, and is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame....
     (1990)
  • Azumah Nelson
    Azumah Nelson

    Azumah Nelson is a former boxer and three-time world champion. A native of Ghana.Nelson also has endured personal loss: His wife for many years died during the 1990s of cancer....
     (2004)
  • Terry Norris
    Terry Norris

    Terry Wayne Norris is a retired American boxing and a three-time world champion in the junior middleweight division. Originally from Lubbock, Texas, Texas, he fought out of San Diego....
     (2005)
  • Ken Norton
    Ken Norton

    Kenneth Howard Norton Sr. is a former multi-time world champion heavyweight boxer....
     (1992)
  • Ruben Olivares
    Rubén Olivares

    Rub?n Olivares is a former Boxing of Mexico nationality. A native of Mexico City, Mexico, Olivares was a world champion multiple times, and considered by many as the greatest bantamweight champion of all time....
     (1991)
  • Bobo Olson
    Bobo Olson

    Carl Olson was an USA boxing. He was the world middleweight champion between October 1953 and December 1955, the longest reign of any champion in that division during the 1950s, although he is probably best remembered for his three knockout defeats at the hands of Sugar Ray Robinson....
     (2000)
  • Carlos Ortiz
    Carlos Ortiz

    Carlos Ortiz is a Puerto Rico who was a three time world boxing champion, twice in the lightweight division and once in the Jr. Welterweights....
     (1991)
  • Manuel Ortiz
    Manuel Ortiz (boxer)

    Manuel Ortiz was one of the very best boxers of the 1940s, and was named to Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years....
     (1996)
  • Carlos Palomino
    Carlos Palomino

    Carlos Palomino is a Mexico former Boxing who was a world champion.Palomino is also an Acting who has been featured in a few movies. He achieved a considerable amount of fame during the 1970s, especially among Mexican and South California fans....
     (2004)
  • László Papp
    László Papp

    L?szl? Papp was a Hungarian people boxer, born in 1926, in Budapest. He won gold medals in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, the 1952 Summer Olympics, in Helsinki and the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia....
     (2001)
  • Willie Pastrano
    Willie Pastrano

    Wilfred Raleigh Pastrano was a light heavyweight boxer who held the world crown from 1963 until 1965....
     (2001)
  • Floyd Patterson
    Floyd Patterson

    Floyd Patterson was an American 2-time List of Heavyweight Champions. At 21, Patterson was then the youngest man to win the world heavyweight championship and, later, the 1st to regain it....
     (1991)
  • Eusebio Pedroza
    Eusebio Pedroza

    Eusebio Pedroza is a native of Panama who holds two records in boxing: His 19 defenses as world featherweight champion are a record for that division, and his seven years as world champion non-stop are a division record too....
     (1999)
  • Willie Pep
    Willie Pep

    Guglielmo Papaleo was an United States boxing who was better known as Willie Pep. Pep fought a total of 242 bouts during his 26 year career, a considerable number of fights even for a fighter of his era....
     (1990)
  • Pascual Pérez
    Pascual Pérez (boxing)

    Pascual Nicol?s P?rez was an Argentina flyweight Boxing. P?rez was born in Tupungato Department in the Mendoza Province of Argentina, he went on to make history by becoming Argentina's first world boxing champion....
     (1995)
  • Eddie Perkins
    Eddie Perkins

    Eddie Perkins was an United States light welterweight boxer....
     (2008)
  • Aaron Pryor
    Aaron Pryor

    Aaron Pryor is a former boxing from Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the former world Junior Welterweight champion....
     (1996)
  • Dwight Muhammad Qawi
    Dwight Muhammad Qawi

    Dwight Muhammad Qawi is a former world boxing champion in the light heavyweight and cruiserweight divisions. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2004....
     (2004)
  • Sugar Ramos
    Sugar Ramos

    Ultiminio "Sugar" Ramos is a Cuban boxing, who began his boxing career in his native country....
     (2001)
  • Luis Rodriguez (1997)
  • Sugar Ray Robinson
    Sugar Ray Robinson

    Sugar Ray Robinson was a professional boxer. Frequently cited as the greatest boxer of all time, Robinson's performances at the welterweight and middleweight divisions prompted sportswriters to create "pound for pound" rankings, where they compared fighters regardless of weight....
     (1990)
  • Edwin Rosario
    Edwin Rosario

    Edwin "El Chapo" Rosario , Was born on March 15, 1963 and died on December 1, 1997. Puerto Rico boxing. Unfortunately, his long battle with a suspected drug addiction caused him to die in truth at the age of 34....
     (2006)
  • Sandy Saddler
    Sandy Saddler

    Joseph "Sandy" Saddler was born in Boston, Massachusetts on June 23, 1926, and died on September 18, 2001. He was a two-time featherweight world champion, and also held the junior lightweight crown....
     (1990)
  • Vicente Saldivar
    Vicente Saldivar

    A 5'3" southpaw, Vicente Saldivar was a dynamo in the ring. He could box or bang and often softened opponents with a brutal body attack. Among his greatest assets was his stamina....
     (1999)
  • Salvador Sánchez
    Salvador Sánchez

    Salvador S?nchez Narvaez was a Mexican boxer born in the town of Santiago Tianguistenco, Estado de M?xico....
     (1991)
  • Max Schmeling
    Max Schmeling

    Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling was a Germany boxing who was List of heavyweight boxing champions between 1930 and 1932. His two fights with Joe Louis in the late 1930s transcended boxing and became worldwide social events because of their national associations....
     (1992)
  • Michael Spinks
    Michael Spinks

    Michael Spinks a native of St. Louis, Missouri, Missouri, is a former boxing who was champion in both the light heavyweight and heavyweight division....
     (1994)
  • Dick Tiger
    Dick Tiger

    Dick Tiger Member of the Order of the British Empire was a Boxing from Amaigbo, Orlu, Nigeria, was a migrant fighter to Liverpool . Tiger was a member of the Igbo people ethnic group....
     (1991)
  • Jose Torres
    José Torres

    Jos? Torres, known as "Chegui", was a Puerto Rican people professional boxing. As an amateur boxer, Torres won a silver medal in the junior middleweight at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne....
     (1997)
  • Randy Turpin
    Randy Turpin

    Randolph Adolphus Turpin known as The Leamington Licker, was an England boxing who was considered by some to be Europe's best Middleweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s....
     (2001)
  • Jersey Joe Walcott
    Jersey Joe Walcott

    Arnold Raymond Cream , better known as Jersey Joe Walcott, was a world heavyweight boxing champion. He broke the world's record for the oldest man to win the world's Heavyweight title when he earned it at the age of 37....
     (1990)
  • Pernell Whitaker
    Pernell Whitaker

    Pernell Whitaker , nicknamed "Sweet Pea," is a retired professional Boxing, who is considered among the greatest of all-time. A native of Norfolk, Virginia, Whitaker was the lightweight silver medalist at the 1982 World Amateur Boxing Championships, followed by the gold medal at the Boxing at the 1983 Pan American Games and the 1984 Summer...
     (2007)
  • Holman Williams
    Holman Williams

    Holman Williams was a world welterweight boxing contender....
     (2008)
  • Ike Williams
    Ike Williams (boxer)

    Ike Williams was a former lightweight world boxing champion. Williams was known for his great right hand, and was named to the Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time as well as Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year for 1948....
     (1990)
  • Chalky Wright
    Chalky Wright

    Chalky Wright was an Mexican-American featherweight boxer and world champion. He was born Albert Wright on February 10, 1912 in Durango, Mexico....
     (1997)
  • Tony Zale
    Tony Zale

    Anthony Florian Zaleski was an United States boxing. Zale was born and raised in Gary, Indiana, a steel town, which gave him his nickname,"Man of Steel." In addition, he had the reputation of being able to take fearsome punishment and still rally to win, reinforcing that nickname....
     (1991)
  • Daniel Zaragoza
    Daniel Zaragoza

    Daniel Zaragoza was a professional boxer. Known as "The Mouse," Zaragoza a popular champion in the super bantamweight division throughout the 1980s and 1990s....
     (2004)
  • Carlos Zarate (1994)
  • Fritzie Zivic
    Fritzie Zivic

    Fritzie Zivic , born as Ferdinand Henry John Zivcich , was an United States Boxing....
     (1993)


Old Timers

  • Lou Ambers
    Lou Ambers

    Luigi Giuseppe d'Ambrosio, AKA Lou Ambers was a lightweight boxer who fought from 1932 to 1941.Managed by Al Weill and trained by Charley Goldman, the "Herkimer Hurricane", as he was known, began his career losing only once in more than three years when he faced future hall of fame lightweight champion Tony Canzoneri on May 10, 1935....
     (1992)
  • Baby Arizmendi
    Baby Arizmendi

    Alberto Arizmendi, AKA Baby Arizmendi was a featherweight and welterweight boxer who is famous for being the youngest boxer to turn pro. He got the nickname "Baby" from the smile he always had on his face....
     (2004)
  • Abe Attell
    Abe Attell

    Abraham Washington Attell , better known in the boxing world as Abe "The Little Hebrew" Attell, was a boxing who became known for his record-setting period as world Featherweight champion, as well as for his involvement in the Black Sox Scandal and other scandals....
     (1990)
  • Max Baer
    Max Baer

    Maximilian Adelbert "Madcap Maxie" Baer was an American Boxing Hall of Fame boxing of the 1930s, one-time List of Heavyweight Champions, Hollywood actor, entertainer, Professional wrestling and referee....
     (1995)
  • Jimmy Barry
    Jimmy Barry

    Jimmy Barry was an Irish-American boxer.Barry fought out of Chicago and was the best bantamweight and flyweight of his era. He remains one of only nine men to remain undefeated throughout their entire career....
     (2000)
  • Benny Bass
    Benny Bass

    Benny Bass, known as "Little Fish," was an United States Boxing.He was world featherweight champion, and world junior lightweight champion....
     (2002)
  • Battling Battalino
    Battling Battalino

    Christopher Battaglia, an Italian-American better known as Battling Battalino, was the former world featherweight boxing champion. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Battalino engaged in 87 bouts during his career, of which he won 57 , lost 26, drew 3, and he fought 1 No Contest....
     (2003)
  • Paul Berlenbach
    Paul Berlenbach

    Paul Berlenbach was the light heavyweight boxing champion of the world from May 30 1925, when he wrested the crown from Mike McTigue, until July 16 1926, when he was defeated by his nemesis Jack Delaney....
     (2001)
  • James J. Braddock
    James J. Braddock

    James Walter Braddock was an Irish-American List of heavyweight boxing champions.Fighting under the name James J. Braddock , he was known for his powerful right hand punch, strong chin, and his amazing comeback from a floundering career, which saw him lose several bouts before struggling to support his family by working on the docks...
     (2001)
  • Jack Britton
    Jack Britton

    Jack Britton was three time world welterweight champion from the USA, who was born as William J. Breslin in Clinton, New York. His professional career lasted for 25 years beginning in 1905....
     (1990)
  • Lou Brouillard
    Lou Brouillard

    Lucien Pierre Brouillard, better known as Lou Brouillard, , was a professional boxing in the welterweight division.Brouillard turned pro in 1928 and in 1933 won the NYSAC World Middleweight Title by defeating Ben Jeby by KO....
     (2006)
  • Panama Al Brown
    Panama Al Brown

    Alfonso Teofilo Brown , better known as Panama Al Brown was a bantamweight Boxing from Panama who made history by becoming boxing's first hispanic world champion....
     (1992)
  • Tommy Burns
    Tommy Burns (boxer)

    Tommy Burns , born Noah Brusso, is the only Canadian born List of Heavyweight Champions boxer. The first to travel the globe in defending his title, Tommy made 11 title defences despite often being the betting underdog due to his size....
     (1996)
  • Tony Canzoneri
    Tony Canzoneri

    Tony Canzoneri was an United States boxing who was born in the town of Slidell, Louisiana.Canzoneri, an Italian American, was one of the members of the exclusive group of boxing world champions who have won titles in three or more divisions....
     (1990)
  • Georges Carpentier
    Georges Carpentier

    Georges Carpentier was a France boxing. He fought mainly as a light heavyweight and heavyweight in a career lasting from 1908-26. Nicknamed the "Orchid Man", he stood 5 ft 11? in and his fighting weight ranged from 125 to 175 lb ....
     (1991)
  • Kid Chocolate
    Kid Chocolate

    Eligio Sardi?as Montalvo , better known as Kid Chocolate, was a Cuban boxing who enjoyed wild success both in the boxing ring and in society life during a span of the 1930s....
     (1994)
  • Joe Choynski
    Joe Choynski

    Joseph Bartlett Choynski was an United States boxing who fought professionally from 1888 to 1904....
     (1998)
  • James J. Corbett
    James J. Corbett

    James John "Gentleman Jim" Corbett was a List of Heavyweight Champions, best known as the man who defeated the great John L. Sullivan. He also coached boxing at the Olympic Club in San Francisco....
     (1990)
  • Young Corbett III
    Young Corbett III

    Young Corbett III A tough southpaw, Corbett fought many great fighters of his era. For example, he engaged in s four-fight series with future welterweight champion Jack Thompson , winning three and drawing once....
     (2004)
  • Johnny Coulon
    Johnny Coulon

    John Frederic Coulon was the bantamweight boxing champion of the world from 6 March, 1910, when he wrested the crown from England's Jim Kendrick, until 1914, when he was defeated by Kid Williams....
     (1999)
  • Eugene Criqui
    Eugčne Criqui

    Eug?ne Criqui was a French boxer who held the world featherweight title in 1923.Criqui was a professional pipe-fitter before he turned professional in 1910....
     (2005)
  • Les Darcy
    Les Darcy

    James Leslie Darcy was an Australian boxing. He was a middleweight, but held the Australian Heavyweight Championship title at the same time....
     (1993)
  • Jack Delaney
    Jack Delaney

    Jack Delaney was a former light heavyweight boxing champion of the world and contender for the heavyweight crown. One of the most popular fighters of the 1920s, the handsome French Canadian was born Ovila Chapdelaine in St....
     (1996)
  • Jack Dempsey
    Jack Dempsey

    Jack "Manassa Mauler" Dempsey was an United States boxing who held the List of heavyweight boxing champions from 1919 to 1926. Dempsey's aggressive style and punching power made him one of the most popular boxers in history....
     (1990)
  • Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey
    Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey

    John Edward Kelly was an Irish-born boxer. Better known as Jack Dempsey, called "Nonpareil", because no one could defeat him. He was defeated only three times out of 65 contests....
     (1992)
  • Jim Driscoll
    Jim Driscoll

    James "Jim" Driscoll was a Wales boxing who learned his trade in the boxing ring and used it to fight his way out of poverty.Born on Ellen Street, Newtown, Cardiff in 1880, Driscoll gained fame for winning the coveted Lonsdale belt in 1910....
     (1990)
  • Jack Dillon
    Jack Dillon

    Ernest Cutler Price was light heavyweight boxing champion of the world....
     (1995)
  • George Dixon
    George Dixon

    George Dixon may refer to:*George Dixon , Canadian boxer*George Dixon , Canadian Football League Hall of Fame player*George Dixon , sea captain and explorer...
     (1990)
  • Johnny Dundee
    Johnny Dundee

    Johnny Dundee was a featherweight and junior lightweight boxing who fought from 1910 until 1932. Dundee was born Giuseppe Curreri in Sciacca, Sicily, but was raised in the United States....
     (1991)
  • Sixto Escobar
    Sixto Escobar

    Sixto Escobar was a Puerto Rican people professional boxing. Competing in the bantamweight division, he became Puerto Rico's first world champion....
     (2002)
  • Jackie Fields
    Jackie Fields

    Jackie Fields , born Jacob Finkelstein, was an United States Boxing.He was an Olympic Games flyweight gold medal winner, and the world welterweight champion....
     (2004)
  • Bob Fitzsimmons
    Bob Fitzsimmons

    Robert James "Bob" Fitzsimmons , a British boxer, 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 the great John L....
     (1990)
  • Tiger Flowers
    Tiger Flowers

    Theodore Flowers became the first African-American middleweight champion, defeating Harry Greb in 1926. Known as "Tiger", he began boxing professionally in 1907 at the age of 19 while working at a Philadelphia shipbuilding plant....
     (1993)
  • Joe Gans
    Joe Gans

    Joe Gans was born Joseph Gant in Baltimore, Maryland. Gans was rated as the greatest lightweight boxer of all time by boxing historian and Ring Magazine editor, Nat Fleischer and was known as the "Old Master"....
     (1990)
  • Frankie Genaro
    Frankie Genaro

    Frank "Frankie" Genaro was a former Olympic Games gold medalist and boxing world flyweight champion. He is credited with engaging in 130 bouts, recording 96 victories , 26 losses, 8 draws and 4 No Decisions....
     (1998)
  • Mike Gibbons
    Mike Gibbons

    Mike Gibbons was an American boxer from 1908 to 1922. The brother of heavyweight Tommy Gibbons, Mike claimed Middleweight Champion of the World status in 1909 following Stanley Ketchel's murder....
     (1992)
  • George Godfrey
    George Godfrey

    George Godfrey may refer to:*George Godfrey , American boxer born 1897*George Godfrey , Canadian boxer born 1853...
     (2007)
  • Harry Greb
    Harry Greb

    Harry Greb was a boxer. He was World Middleweight boxing Champion from 1923 to 1926 and American Light Heavyweight title holder 1922 - 1923. He fought a recorded 303 times in his 13 year-career, against the best opposition the talent-rich 1910's & 20's could provide him, frequently squaring off against light-heavyweights and even heavyweight...
     (1990)
  • Young Griffo
    Young Griffo

    Albert Griffiths , better known as Young Griffo, was a world featherweight boxing champion....
     (1991)
  • Harry Harris
    Harry Harris

    Rear admiral Harry Harris is director of operations , United States Southern Command. He formerly served as commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo and Guantanamo Bay detainment camp commander until March 29, 2007....
     (2002)
  • Len Harvey
    Len Harvey

    Len Harvey was born in Stoke Climsland, Cornwall. On the 11 July, 1907. A great tactician and defensive boxer who boxed at every weight division's of his day....
     (2008)
  • Pete Herman
    Pete Herman

    Pete Herman was one of the all time great bantamweight world champions. An Italian-American, Herman was born Peter Gulotta in New Orleans, Louisiana, and fought from 1912 until 1922....
     (1997)
  • Peter Jackson
    Peter Jackson (boxer)

    Peter "Black Prince" Jackson was a Boxing from Australia.Jackson was born in Christiansted, Saint Croix, U.S Virgin Islands. Standing at the Height of 6' 1 1/2" tall and weighing in at 192-210 lbs he became the winner of the Australian Heavyweight championship in 1886....
     (1990)
  • Joe Jeanette
    Joe Jeanette

    Joe Jeannette is considered one of the best African-American heavyweight Boxings of the early 20th century....
     (1997)
  • James J. Jeffries
    James J. Jeffries

    James Jackson Jeffries was a List of Heavyweight Champions.His greatest assets were his enormous strength and stamina. Using a technique taught to him by his trainer, former welterweight and middleweight champion Tommy Ryan, Jeffries fought out of a crouch with his left arm extended forward....
     (1990)
  • Jack Johnson
    Jack Johnson (boxer)

    John Arthur Johnson , better known as Jack Johnson and nicknamed the ?Galveston Giant?, was an United States boxing and arguably the best heavyweight of his generation....
     (1990)
  • Gorilla Jones
    Gorilla Jones

    William Jones...
     (2009)
  • Louis "Kid" Kaplan
    Kid Kaplan

    Louis Kaplan , better known as Kid Kaplan, was a professional boxing in the Featherweight division....
     (2003)
  • Stanley Ketchel
    Stanley Ketchel

    Stanislaw Kiecal, , better known in the boxing world as Stanley Ketchel, was an United States boxing of Polish origin who became one of the greatest world middleweight champions....
     (1990)
  • Dixie Kid
    Dixie Kid

    Aaron Lister Brown also known as Dixie Kid was a world welterweight boxing champion....
     (2002)
  • Johnny Kilbane
    Johnny Kilbane

    John "Johnny" Patrick Kilbane was a featherweight boxing in the early part of the 20th century. He held the featherweight title from 1912 to 1923, the longest period in the division's history, and the second longest world title holder in boxing history, behind only Joe Louis....
     (1995)
  • Frank Klaus
    Frank Klaus

    Frank Klaus was a German-American boxer from 1904 to 1918. Klaus won the Middleweight Championship of the world in 1913 and was elected to the Ring Boxing Hall of Fame in 1974....
     (2008)
  • Fidel LaBarba (1996)
  • Sam Langford
    Sam Langford

    Sam Langford was an African Canadian boxing standout of the early part of the 20th century. Called the "Greatest Fighter Nobody Knows," by ESPN....
     (1990)
  • George "Kid" Lavigne
    Kid Lavigne

    Kid Lavigne was an American boxer from Michigan. He was the second American boxer to hold the lightweight champion, winning the title on June 1, 1896....
     (1998)
  • Benny Leonard
    Benny Leonard

    Benny Leonard , born Benjamin Leiner, was an United States Boxing. He was named as number 8 on Ring Magazine list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years....
     (1990)
  • Battling Levinsky
    Battling Levinsky

    Barney Williams was light heavyweight boxing champion of the world....
     (2000)
  • Harry Lewis
    Harry Lewis

    'Harry Lewis' was a successful supporting actor in films. He appeared as a goon alongside Edward G. Robinson in Key Largo in 1948.Other small film roles include appearing as Claude Rains's butler in The Unsuspected , as Sheriff Clyde Boston in Gun Crazy , and as a gangster in "The Monkey Mystery" episode of Adventures of Superm...
     (2008)
  • John Henry Lewis
    John Henry Lewis

    John Henry Lewis was an African American Boxing who was the world List of light heavyweight boxing champions from 1935 to 1939.One interesting fact of his is that Lewis was managed by a gambler and racketeer of the 1930s: Gus Greenlee, a man who became very important to baseball's Negro Leagues as a commissioner and team owner....
     (1994)
  • Ted "Kid" Lewis (1992)
  • Tommy Loughran
    Tommy Loughran

    Tommy Loughran was the light heavyweight boxing champion of the world.Loughran's effective use of coordinated foot work, sound defense and swift, accurate counter punching is now regarded as a precursor to the techniques practiced in modern boxing....
     (1991)
  • Benny Lynch
    Benny Lynch

    Benny Lynch was a Scotland boxing who fought in the flyweight division. He is considered by some to be one of the finest boxers below the lightweight division in his era and Ring Magazine has described him as the greatest fighter that Scotland has ever produced....
     (1998)
  • Joe Lynch
    Joe Lynch (boxer)

    Joseph Aloysius Lynch was an American Bantamweight boxer.Pro careerHe won the world title at that weight in 1920, defeating Pete Herman....
     (2005)
  • Sammy Mandell (1998)
  • Jack McAuliffe
    Jack McAuliffe

    Jack McAuliffe was an Irish-American boxer. Jack McAuliffe's parents were Cornelius McAuliffe and Jane Bailey who were living at 5 Christ Church Lane, Cork City at the time of Jack's birth....
     (1995)
  • Charles "Kid" McCoy
    Kid McCoy

    Charles "Kid" McCoy, who was born Norman Selby was an United States world champion boxing.Born in Moscow, Rush County, Indiana, Weight 160, Heights 5' 11", record 81 wins 6 losses, 9 no decision, disqualified 6 times....
     (1991)
  • Packey McFarland
    Packey McFarland

    Patrick "Packey" McFarland an American boxing who was a title contender in the lightweight and welterweight divisions....
     (1992)
  • Terry McGovern
    Terry McGovern (boxer)

    Terrible Terry McGovern , born John Terrence McGovern in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a boxer who held the world bantamweight and featherweight titles....
     (1990)
  • Jimmy McLarnin
    Jimmy McLarnin

    James Archibald McLarnin, known as Jimmy McLarnin , was an Irish Canadian professional boxing who became two time List of welterweight boxing champions and an International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee....
     (1991)
  • Sam McVey
    Sam McVey

    Sam McVey or Sam McVea was a famous heavyweight contender in boxing during the early 20th century. He fought out of Oxnard, California. McVey ranked alongside Sam Langford and Joe Jeanette as one of the top black fighters during a famed career that took him across the globe....
     (1999)
  • Freddie Miller
    Freddie Miller

    Freddie Miller was a local television personality in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, having worked for WXIA-TV in the 1950s,'60's, and '70's. ...
     (1997)
  • Charley Mitchell
    Charley Mitchell

    Charles Watson Mitchell was a world heavyweight boxing title contender....
     (2002)
  • Pedro Montańez
    Pedro Montańez

    Pedro Monta?ez, , was a Boxing from Cayey, Puerto Rico. Also known as El Torito De Cayey , he has been considered by many to be one of the best boxings in history never to win a world title....
     (2007)
  • Owen Moran
    Owen Moran

    Owen Moran was a world Bantamweight boxing champion....
     (2002)
  • Kid Norfolk
    Kid Norfolk

    William Ward also known as Kid Norfolk was a world heavyweight boxing title contender....
     (2007)
  • Battling Nelson
    Battling Nelson

    Oscar Math?us Nielsen, also known as Oscar "Battling" Nelson, was a boxer who held the world lightweight championship on two separate occasions....
     (1992)
  • Philadelphia Jack O'Brien
    Philadelphia Jack O'Brien

    Joseph Francis Hagan was light heavyweight boxing champion of the world....
     (1994)
  • Billy Papke
    Billy Papke

    Billy Papke was an American boxing.Born in Spring Valley, Illinois, he was the son of Germany immigrants to the United States. Papke was an abnormally hard boxer....
     (2001)
  • Billy Petrolle
    Billy Petrolle

    William Michael Petrolle was a world lightweight boxing title contender....
     (2000)
  • Willie Ritchie
    Willie Ritchie

    Willie Ritchie , was the world lightweight boxing champion from 1912 to 1914. ...
     (2004)
  • Maxie Rosenbloom
    Maxie Rosenbloom

    Max Everitt Rosenbloom, known as Slapsie Maxie , was a boxing champion, film actor, and television personality.Growing up in a tough New York neighborhood, Rosenbloom learned to defend himself....
     (1993)
  • Barney Ross
    Barney Ross

    Barney Ross, born Dov-Ber Rasofsky was a boxing. After his beloved father, a rabbi, dies in his arms after being shot in a robbery, Ross, a rabbinical student: loses his faith in God and abandons his studies; becomes a street brawler alongside his buddy Jack Ruby; goes to work for Al Capone; transforms himself into the first three weight-cla...
     (1990)
  • Tommy Ryan
    Tommy Ryan

    Tommy Ryan was a famed welterweight and middleweight champion who fought from 1887-1907. Ryan was considered an excellent boxer-puncher, and many consider him one of the all time greatest middleweight champions....
     (1991)
  • Jack Sharkey
    Jack Sharkey

    Jack Sharkey was an American List of Heavyweight Champions. He was of Lithuanian descent.Born in an era when prizefighters, actors and others in the public spotlight adopted an "American-sounding" pseudonym, Joseph Paul Zukauskas took the family name of a popular retired Ireland boxer and future Hall of Famer, Thomas Sharkey ....
     (1994)
  • Jimmy Slattery
    Jimmy Slattery

    James Edward Slattery was a professional boxing in the Light Heavyweight division. Slattery, son of a Buffalo fire fighter, turned pro in 1921 and came up short in his challenge for the World Light Heavyweight Title against Paul Berlenbach in 1925....
     (2006)
  • Tom Sharkey
    Tom Sharkey

    "Sailor" Tom Sharkey was a boxer who fought two fights with heavyweight champion James J. Jeffries. Sharkey's recorded ring career spanned from 1893 to 1904....
     (2003)
  • Mysterious Billy Smith
    Mysterious Billy Smith

    Mysterious Billy Smith was a Canadian Boxing. He turned pro in 1890, and in his ninth fight he knocked out Danny Needham to win the welterweight championship in 1892....
     (2009)
  • Billy Soose
    Billy Soose

    Billy Soose was an American boxer who won the world middleweight championship in 1941.After a collegiate boxing career, Soose became a professional boxer in 1938....
     (2009)
  • Freddie Steele
    Freddie Steele

    Freddie Steele was a boxer and film actor born Frederick Earle Burgett in Seattle, Washington. He was recognized as middleweight champion of the world between 1936 and 1938....
     (1999)
  • Young Stribling
    Young Stribling

    Young Stribling was a professional boxing in the Heavyweight division.He was the elder brother of fellow boxer Herbert Stribling....
     (1996)
  • Charles "Bud" Taylor (2005)
  • Lew Tendler
    Lew Tendler

    Lew Tendler was an United States Boxing.Tendler is called ?the greatest Southpaw in ring history? by The Ring Magazine?s editor-publisher Nat Fleischer....
     (1999)
  • Marcel Thil
    Marcel Thil

    Marcel Thil was a France boxer and world champion.Born in Saint-Dizier, Haute-Marne in the Champagne-Ardenne of France, Marcel Thil started boxing at a very young age and turned professional at the age of sixteen....
     (2005)
  • Gene Tunney
    Gene Tunney

    James Joseph "Gene" Tunney was the List of Heavyweight Champions from 1926-1928 who defeated Jack Dempsey twice, first in 1926 and then in 1927....
     (1990)
  • Pancho Villa (1994)
  • Barbados Joe Walcott
    Joe Walcott

    Joe Walcott, also known as Barbados Joe Walcott to distinguish him from the Jersey Joe Walcott known by the same name, was born in Demerara, British Guyana on March 13, 1873, and died October 1, 1935....
     (1991)
  • Mickey Walker
    Mickey Walker

    Edward Patrick "Mickey" Walker was a multi-faceted Boxing from New Jersey. He was also an avid golfer and a renowned artist....
     (1990)
  • Freddie Welsh
    Freddie Welsh

    Freddie Welsh was a Wales born boxing champion....
     (1997)
  • Jimmy Wilde
    Jimmy Wilde

    Jimmy Wilde , was a former Wales world boxing champion. Jimmy Wilde was the first official world flyweight champion and was rated by United States boxing writer Nat Fleischer, as well as many other professionals and fans including former boxer, Boxing training, Coach and Promoter , Charley 'Broadway' Rose, as "the greatest flyweight ever"....
     (1990)
  • Jess Willard
    Jess Willard

    Jess Willard was a List of Heavyweight Champions Heavyweight Boxing Champion.A working cowboy, he did not begin boxing until he was almost 30 years old....
     (2003)
  • Kid Williams
    Kid Williams

    Kid Williams was a Boxing.Williams was born in Copenhagen,Denmark. He traveled with his parents to the United States in 1904 where they ended up in Baltimore, Maryland....
     (1996)
  • Harry Wills
    Harry Wills

    Harry "The Black Panther" Wills was perhaps the most well known victim of the "color line" drawn by white heavyweight champions after the title reign of Jack Johnson ....
     (1992)
  • Ad Wolgast (2000)
  • Midget Wolgast
    Midget Wolgast

    Joseph Robert Loscalzo also known as Midget Wolgast was a world Flyweight boxing champion....
     (2001)
  • Teddy Yarosz
    Teddy Yarosz

    Teddy Yarosz was middleweight boxing champion of the world....
     (2006)


Pioneers

  • Barney Aaron
    Barney Aaron

    Young Barney Aaron was an Anglo-American Boxing.The son of Hall of Famer Barney Aaron, he emigrated to the United States in 1855, and began boxing in 1856....
     (2001)
  • Young Barney Aaron (2007)
  • Caleb Baldwin
    Caleb Baldwin

    Caleb Ramsbottom , aka Caleb Baldwin, was a premiere lightweight boxer of the bare-knuckle era in England....
     (2003)
  • Jem Belcher
    Jem Belcher

    Jem Belcher was an England Bare-knuckle boxing and Champion of All England 1800-1805.Born in Bristol, Belcher drew with champion Jack Bartholomew in a 51-round bout in 1799, and won the rematch in the following year to become champion....
     (1992)
  • Benjamin Brain
    Benjamin Brain

    Benjamin Brain outweighed most men and even most professional fighters in the England of the 1780s. A coal miner by trade, Brain was a valiant fighter whose career spanned twenty years....
     (1994)
  • Jack Broughton
    Jack Broughton

    John "Jack" Broughton, , was an England Bare-knuckle boxing fighter. He was the first person to ever codify a set of rules to be used in such contests; prior to this the "rules" that existed were very loosely defined and tended to vary from contest to contest....
     (1990)
  • James Burke
    James Burke (boxer)

    James "Deaf" Burke , 6 feet 2 inches tall, weighing 200 lb , was one of England's earliest boxing champions. He trained in the area around the River Thames....
     (1992)
  • Jem Carney
    Jem Carney

    Jem "Jim" Carney was an 1880s English Lightweight Champion....
     (2006)
  • Arthur Chambers
    Arthur Chambers

    Arthur Chambers was an English Americans boxer....
     (2000)
  • Tom Cribb
    Tom Cribb

    Tom Cribb was an England bare-knuckle Boxing of the 19th century, so successful that he became world champion. He is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame....
     (1991)
  • Dick Curtis
    Dick Curtis (boxer)

    Dick Curtis was a professional boxing pioneer born in Southwark, London....
     (2007)
  • Dan Donnelly
    Dan Donnelly (boxer)

    Dan Donnelly , was a professional boxing pioneer and the first Irish-born heavyweight champion. He was posthumously inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, "Pioneers" Category in 2008....
     (2008)
  • Professor Mike Donovan
    Professor Mike Donovan

    Mike Donovan also known as Professor Mike Donovan and Mike O'Donovan was a middleweight boxer of the bare-knuckle era and later became one of the foremost teachers of the sport....
     (1998)
  • Paddy Duffy
    Paddy Duffy

    Paddy Duffy was an Irish-American and the first World Welterweight champion of the gloved era of boxing....
     (1994)
  • Billy Edwards
    Billy Edwards

    Billy Edwards was a was a standout lightweight of the late 1860s and 1870s in England....
     (2004)
  • James Figg
    James Figg

    James Figg was a Great Britain bare-knuckle boxing. He is universally recognized the first England bare-knuckle boxing Champion, reigning from 1719 to 1730 or 1734....
     (1992)
  • Joe Goss
    Joe Goss

    Joe Goss was born on November 5, 1837 in Northampton, England. Although he rarely scaled more than 160 pounds, the clever and aggressive Goss routinely fought men both bigger and heavier than himself....
     (2003)
  • John C. Heenan
    John C. Heenan

    John Carmel Heenan was an American Bare-knuckle boxing born in Troy, New York NY. He boxing under the name "The Benicia Boy" . His career lasted from 1858 until 1863....
     (2002)
  • Tom Hyer
    Tom Hyer

    Tom Hyer was an American Bare-knuckle boxing. He was a champion of boxing in America from September 9 1841 to 1851. He was an ancestor of the great Turbert Family....
     (2009)
  • John Jackson
    John Jackson (boxer)

    "Gentleman" John Jackson was a celebrated pugilist of the late 18th century.He won the title Champion of England in a fight on 15 April 1795 in which he beat...
     (1992)
  • Tom Johnson (1995)
  • Tom King (1992)
  • Nat Langham
    Nat Langham

    Nat Langham was an English middleweight bare-knuckle prize fighter. He had the distinction of being the only opponent ever to beat the legendary Thomas Sayers....
     (1992)
  • Jem Mace
    Jem Mace

    Jem Mace was an English boxer....
     (1990)
  • Daniel Mendoza
    Daniel Mendoza

    Daniel Mendoza was an England prizefighter, who was boxing champion of England 1792-95. He was a Sephardic Jew, and is sometimes called the father of scientific boxing....
     (1990)
  • Tom Molineaux
    Tom Molineaux

    Tom Molineaux was an United States Boxing.Born into slavery, Molineaux was trained by his father, also a fighter, as was Molineaux' twin brother....
     (1997)
  • John Morrissey
    John Morrissey

    John Morrissey , also known as Old Smoke, was a Bare-knuckle boxing and a gang member in New York in the 1850s and later became a Democratic Party New York State Senate and U.S....
     (1996)
  • Henry Pearce
    Henry Pearce

    Henry George Pearce was an American cricketer. He was a fast bowler, who played cricket in Philadelphia during cricket's brief North American "golden age"....
     (1993)
  • Jack Randall
    Jack Randall (boxer)

    Jack Randall , nicknamed "The Nonpareil", was a professional boxing pioneer.Born in London and standing only 5'6" tall, the diminutive Randall was one of the dominant pugilists of his era, compiling a 16-0-1 record as a professional, with all of his wins coming by knockout....
     (2005)
  • Bill Richmond
    Bill Richmond

    Bill Richmond was an African American boxing, born a slavery in Cuckold's Town , Staten Island, New York. His nickname was 'The Black Terror'....
     (1999)
  • Dutch Sam
    Dutch Sam

    Samuel Elias also known as Dutch Sam , nicknamed "The Star of the East," was a professional boxing pioneer....
     (1997)
  • Young Dutch Sam
    Young Dutch Sam

    Young Dutch Sam was a professional boxing pioneer. ...
     (2002)
  • Tom Sayers (1990)
  • Tom Spring
    Tom Spring

    Tom Spring was an England Bare-knuckle boxing fighter. He was heavyweight champion of England in 1821 until his retirement in 1824. After his retirement he became landlord of the Castle Inn at Holborn in London, where he arranged the patronage and contracts of many of the major boxing events of the period while overseeing fair play in the...
     (1992)
  • John L. Sullivan
    John L. Sullivan

    John Lawrence Sullivan was recognized as the first heavyweight champion of Boxing from February 7 1882 to 1892, and is generally recognized as the last heavyweight champion of bare-knuckle boxing under the London Prize Ring rules....
     (1990)
  • Bendigo Thompson
    William Thompson (boxer)

    William Abednego Thompson was an English bare-knuckle boxer....
     (1991)
  • Jem Ward
    Jem Ward

    Jem Ward was an English Bare-knuckle boxing boxer. "A fine fighter and powerfully built man", he was the English champion boxer from 1825 until 1831....
     (1995)


Non-participants

  • Thomas S. Andrews (1992)
  • Ray Arcel
    Ray Arcel

    Ray Arcel was a boxing trainer who was active from the 1920s through the 1980s. He trained eighteen world champions.Arcel was born in Terre Haute, Indiana....
     (1991)
  • Bob Arum
    Bob Arum

    Robert "Bob" Arum is professional boxing promoter. He also worked for the US Attorneys Office for the southern district of New York, in the Tax division....
     (1999)
  • Jarvis Astaire (2006)
  • Giuseppe Ballarati (1999)
  • George Benton (2001)
  • Whitey Bimstein
    Whitey Bimstein

    Whitey Bimstein was a trainer and cutman. He boxed pro and had 70 fights, when he hung up his gloves he joined the U.S. Navy during World War I as a boxing instructor, but after he had left the Navy he decided to become a trainer full time....
     (2006)
  • Jack Blackburn
    Jack Blackburn

    Charles Henry 'Jack' Blackburn was an United States Boxing and boxing trainer.A lightweight, Blackburn had a long career in the sport, comprising some 147 professional fights, often against naturally bigger opponents, and finished with a final record of 99-26-19....
     (1992)
  • William A. Brady
    William A. Brady

    William Aloysius Brady was an United States theatre actor, producer, and sports promoter.Brady was born to a newspaperman in 1863. His father kidnapped him from San Francisco and brought William to New York City, where his father worked as a writer while William was forced to sell newspapers on street corners....
     (1998)
  • Umberto Branchini
    Umberto Branchini

    Umberto Branchini was an Italian boxing promoter and manager. Born in Modena, Italy, on July 17, 1914, he promoted or arranged fights on six continents during his career, which lasted for over fifty years....
     (2004)
  • Teddy Brenner (1993)
  • Amilcar Brusa (2007)
  • Bill Cayton
    Bill Cayton

    William D. Cayton , best known for helping to manage and promote Mike Tyson early in his career, was also famous for preserving much of boxing's legacy through his efforts as a film historian and producer....
     (2005)
  • John Graham Chambers
    John Graham Chambers

    John Graham Chambers rowed for University of Cambridge, founded inter-varsity sports, became English Champion walker, coached four winning The Boat Race crews, devised the Marquess of Queensberry rules, staged the FA Cup Final and the Regatta, instituted championships for English billiards, boxing, cycling, wrestling and Track and field athl...
     (1990)
  • Don Chargin (2001)
  • Stanley Christodoulou
    Stanley Christodoulou

    Stanley Christodoulou is a South African international boxing judge and referee. Christodoulou has judged bouts in his native South Africa, as well as internationally with the World Boxing Association, with whom he is involved in leaderships roles dealing with officiating....
     (2004)
  • Gil Clancy
    Gil Clancy

    Gil Clancy was born on May 30th, 1922. Clancy is a Hall of Fame boxing trainer and one of the most noted boxing commentators of the 1980s and 1990s....
     (1993)
  • Irving Cohen (2002)
  • James W. Coffroth (1991)
  • Cuco Conde (2007)
  • Cus D'Amato
    Cus D'Amato

    Constantine "Cus" D'Amato was a boxing manager and trainer who handled the careers of Floyd Patterson, Jose Torres, and Mike Tyson. Several successful boxing trainers, including Teddy Atlas, Kevin Rooney, and Joe Fariello, were tutored by D'Amato....
     (1995)
  • Jeff Dickson (2000)
  • Arthur Donovan (1993)
  • Mickey Duff
    Mickey Duff

    Mickey Duff born 7 June 1929 in Krakow, Poland was a British Boxing, manager and promoter. He was the son of a rabbi. His family migrated from Poland when his father recognised the risk of the rise of Nazism....
     (1999)
  • Angelo Dundee
    Angelo Dundee

    Angelo Merena , better known in the boxing world as Angelo Dundee, is a boxing cornerman who has worked with 15 world boxing champions, including Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Jose Napoles, George Foreman, Jimmy Ellis, Carmen Basilio and Luis Rodriguez ....
     (1994)
  • Chris Dundee (1994)
  • Don Dunphy
    Don Dunphy

    Don Dunphy was a United States television and radio sports announcer specializing in boxing broadcasts. Dunphy was noted for his fast paced delivery and enthusiasm for the sport....
     (1993)
  • Dan Duva
    Dan Duva

    Daniel Salvator Duva was a boxing promoter who promoted or co-promoted over 100 world championship fights through his family run business, Main Events....
     (2003)
  • Lou Duva
    Lou Duva

    Louis "Lou" Duva is a boxing trainer and manager who has handled some of the most famous boxers in the world including 19 World Champions. The Duva family have promoted boxing events in over 20 countries on six continents....
     (1998)
  • Aileen Eaton
    Aileen Eaton

    Aileen Eaton was a boxing promoter who was influential in the United States' west coast's boxing scene for five decades. Eaton was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada....
     (2002)
  • Pierce Egan
    Pierce Egan

    Pierce Egan , early United Kingdom journalist, sportswriter, and writer on popular culture. He wrote first about boxing in his serial publication, Boxiana, or Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism , in which he originated the description of boxing as "the sweet science"....
     (1991)
  • Nat Fleischer
    Nat Fleischer

    Nathaniel Stanley Fleischer was a noted United States boxing writer. Fleischer inaugurated, in 1922, the Ring Magazine publication. He led that magazine, as editor in chief, for fifty years till his death in 1972....
     (1990)
  • Richard Kyle Fox (1997)
  • Dewey Fragetta (2003)
  • Don Fraser (2005)
  • Eddie Futch
    Eddie Futch

    Eddie Futch was a boxing trainer who trained a number of legendary champions. The incredible list of fighters he trained includes Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes, and Trevor Berbick, four of the five men to defeat Muhammad Ali...
     (1994)
  • Billy Gibson
    Billy Gibson

    William 'Billy' Gibson , is a Scotland football er currently playing for Clyde F.C.. He can play as a defender or a midfielder....
     (2009)
  • Charley Goldman
    Charley Goldman

    Charley Goldman was a famed boxing trainer who trained five world champions. Goldman's most famous pupil was the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world, Rocky Marciano....
     (1992)
  • Ruby Goldstein
    Ruby Goldstein

    "Ruby" Goldstein , the "Jewel Of The Ghetto," was an United States boxing and prize fight referee....
     (1994)
  • Bob Goodman (2009)
  • Murray Goodman (1999)
  • Bill Gore (2008)
  • Abe J. Greene (2009)
  • Akihiko Honda (2009)
  • Joe Humphreys (1997)
  • Sam Ichinose (2001)
  • Jimmy Jacobs (1993)
  • Mike Jacobs
    Mike Jacobs

    Mike Jacobs may refer to:*Mike Jacobs , American baseball player, playing for the Kansas City Royals*Mike Jacobs , played for the Chicago Cubs...
     (1990)
  • Jimmy Johnston
    Jimmy Johnston

    James Harle Johnston was a major-league baseball player from 1911 through 1926. He played mostly with the Brooklyn Robins of the National League....
     (1999)
  • Jack Kearns
    Jack Kearns

    Jack "Doc" Kearns was an United States boxing manager from the state of Washington. He is most famous for managing Jack Dempsey, who was World Heavyweight Champion from 1919 to 1926....
     (1990)
  • Don King (1997)
  • Tito Lectoure
    Juan Carlos Lectoure

    Juan Carlos Lectoure , nicknamed "Tito", was an Argentina businessman, mainly involved in boxing/sports events and former owner of Buenos Aires' Luna Park, Buenos Aires stadium....
     (1997)
  • A.J. Liebling (1992)
  • Hugh, Earl of Lonsdale (1996)
  • Harry Markson (1992)
  • John, Marquess of Queensberry (1990)
  • Arthur Mercante
    Arthur Mercante

    Arthur Mercante is a retired international boxing referee. His career lasted from the 1960's to the 1980's. He was the third man in the ring for many classic bouts, the most famous being the first Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fight on March 8, 1971....
     (1995)
  • Dan Morgan
    Dan Morgan

    Daniel Thomas Morgan, Jr. is an American football linebacker for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Panthers 11th overall in the 2001 NFL Draft....
     (2000)
  • William Muldoon
    William Muldoon

    William Muldoon was a champion American wrestler, physical culture and the first chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission. He once wrestled a match that lasted over seven hours....
     (1996)
  • Gilbert Odd
    Gilbert Odd

    Gilbert Odd was a United Kingdom boxing historian and sportswriter.Odd boxed briefly as an amateur, then at 18 turned his sights on the sports writing side of the game, becoming a ringside correspondent for the weekly magazine, Boxing....
     (1995)
  • Tom O'Rourke
    Tom O'Rourke

    Tom O'Rourke was a boxing manager in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.O'Rourke boxed in his youth, but his primary talent was rowing....
     (1999)
  • Mogens Palle (2008)
  • Dan Parker (1996)
  • George Parnassus (1991)
  • J Russell Peltz (2004)
  • Tex Rickard (1990)
  • Irving Rudd (1999)
  • Rodolfo Sabbatini (2006)
  • Lope Sarreal (2005)
  • George Siler (1995)
  • Sam Silverman (2002)
  • Jack Solomons
    Jack Solomons

    Jack Solomons was a British boxing promoter who has been called "one of the greatest boxing promoters in history."He began promoting boxing in London during the 1930s....
     (1995)
  • Emanuel Steward
    Emanuel Steward

    Emanuel Steward is a boxing trainer, commentator and inductee of the International Boxing Hall Of Fame....
     (1997)
  • Jose Sulaiman
    José Sulaimán

    Jos? Sulaim?n is a Mexico boxing official of Lebanon-descent. He is the president/godfather of the World Boxing Council.Sulaim?n is known in the boxing world as an administrator for the WBC for more than three decades....
     (2007)
  • Sam Taub
    Sam Taub

    Sam Taub was a journalist and radio broadcaster who is best known for his work covering boxing.Taub was born on New York's Lower East Side and raised on Mott Street in Chinatown....
     (1995)
  • Herman Taylor (1998)
  • Lou Viscusi (2004)
  • Jimmy Walker
    Jimmy Walker

    James John Walker, often known as Jimmy Walker and colloquially as Beau James , was the mayor of New York City during the Jazz Age....
     (1992)
  • Frank Warren
    Frank Warren

    Frank Warren may refer to:* Frank Warren , played for the New Orleans Saints* Frank Warren , English boxing manager and promoter* Francis E....
     (2008)
  • Al Weill
    Al Weill

    Armand "Al" Weill was a boxing manager. He managed four world champions Rocky Marciano, Marty Servo, Lou Ambers, Joey Archibald and several other boxers....
     (2003)


Observers

  • Dave Anderson
    Dave Anderson

    Dave Anderson may refer to:*Dave Anderson *Dave Anderson *David Anderson *Dave Anderson *Dave Anderson *Dave Anderson ...
     (2008)
  • Lester Bromberg (2001)
  • Jimmy Cannon
    Jimmy Cannon

    Jimmy Cannon was a sports journalist. He started at the New York Daily News when he was 17. He later wrote for the New York Post, New York Journal-American and King Features Syndicate....
     (2002)
  • Ralph Citro
    Ralph Citro

    Ralph Citro was a boxing historian and archivist.Citro was an amateur boxer while serving in the Marine Corps, compiling a record of 18-3. After leaving the service, he owned and operated gyms and began training boxers....
     (2001)
  • Tad Dorgan (2007)
  • Jack Fiske (2003)
  • Paul Gallico
    Paul Gallico

    Paul William Gallico was a successful American novelist, short story and sports writer. Many of his works were adapted for motion pictures. He is perhaps best remembered for The Snow Goose, his only real critical success, and for the novel The Poseidon Adventure, primarily through the 1972 film adaptation....
     (2009)
  • Bill Gallo
    Bill Gallo

    Bill Gallo is a famed cartoonist and newspaper columnist for the New York Daily News.Gallo was born in Manhattan on December 28, 1922. His father was a newspaperman, but died when Gallo was 11 years old....
     (2001)
  • Reg Gutteridge
    Reg Gutteridge

    Reg Gutteridge, OBE was a boxing journalist and television commentator.Gutteridge was born into a boxing family in London Borough of Islington....
     (2002)
  • W.C. Heinz (2004)
  • Jersey Jones (2005)
  • Hank Kaplan
    Hank Kaplan

    Hank Kaplan was an United States boxing historian and writer. Always wearing one of many of his prized boxing baseball caps, and smoking a pipe, he is widely regarded as the nation's foremost boxing historian, and was known and respected worldwide....
     (2005)
  • Joe Koizumi (2008)
  • Hugh McIlvanney
    Hugh McIlvanney

    Hugh McIlvanney, born in Kilmarnock, Scotland in 1933, is an award-winning, sports writer. He currently holds a long-running column on the back page of The Sunday Times sports section....
     (2009)
  • Larry Merchant
    Larry Merchant

    Larry Merchant is an American former sportswriter, a longtime commentator for HBO Sports presentations of HBO World Championship Boxing, Boxing After Dark and HBO pay-per-view telecasts, and is considered "the greatest television boxing analyst of all time" by ESPN Boxing analyst Dan Rafael....
     (2009)
  • Harry Mullan
    Harry Mullan

    Harry Mullan was an Irish people boxing writer and journalist. He died on 21 May 1999 at the age of 53 after a four-year battle with cancer. Born in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland in 1946, Mullan edited the British trade paper, Boxing News, for 19 years, from 1977 until 1996....
     (2005)
  • Barney Nagler (2004)
  • LeRoy Neiman
    LeRoy Neiman

    LeRoy Neiman is an United States of America artist known for his brilliantly colored, semi-abstract art paintings and screen printing of Sportsperson and sporting events....
     (2007)
  • Damon Runyon
    Damon Runyon

    Damon Runyon was a newspaperman and writer.He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition in the United States era....
     (2002)
  • Budd Schulberg
    Budd Schulberg

    Budd Schulberg is an United States screenwriter,novelist and sports writer.Born Seymour Wilson Schulberg, he was Hollywood "royalty", the son of B.P....
     (2003)
  • Bert Sugar (2005)
  • Stanley Weston
    Stanley Weston

    Stanley Weston was a prolific sportswriter and sports photographer. He promoted the sport of boxing in innumerable ways throughout his career. Weston was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2006....
     (2006)


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