Boxing Hall of Fame Class is announced

Just got an e-mail from the HOF. Discuss!

BOXERS JOE CALZAGHE, OSCAR DE LA HOYA AND FELIX TRINIDAD ​

ELECTED TO INT’L BOXING HALL OF FAME​

Barry Hearn, Richard Steele, Graham Houston and Neil Leifer ​

also enter Hall of Fame​

CANASTOTA, NY - DECEMBER 4, 2013 - The International Boxing Hall of Fame and Museum announced today the newest class of inductees to enter the Hall. Living inductees include two division champion “The Pride of Wales” Joe Calzaghe, six division world champion “The Golden Boy” Oscar De La Hoya and three division champion Felix “Tito” Trinidad in the Modern category; promoter Barry Hearn, referee Richard Steele, journalist Graham Houston and photographer Neil Leifer.

The Hall of Fame also released names of posthumous honorees: George “K.O.” Chaney, Charles Ledoux and Mike O’Dowd in the Old-Timer Category; referee Eugene Corri in the Non Participant Category; and Tom Allen in the Pioneer Category. Inductees were voted in by members of the Boxing Writers Association and a panel of international boxing historians.

 

BTW, if I catch anybody using the phrase. "When did the Hall of Fame, turn into the Hall of Very Good?", I'm gonna hand over the keys to this place to Hanzy.

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Face facts. Nobody will take the boxing hall of fame seriously until they induct Stinger Karl Hegman.

De la Hoya? Trinidad? Please. What did they ever accomplish?


TFK

 

Should he go in as a Non-Participant like Sly Stallone or a Participant like Juan Diaz?

 

I would think they'd induct him in as both.

TFK

 

Graham Houston is a cool motherfucker.

 

he'd have to go in thrice when you consider his exploits as an award winning writer, pugilist and promoter. sort of a combo of Ray Robinson, Bud Schulberg and Don King

 

He's a no brainer based on just the envy and jealousy he triggers in those who never had the guts to get involved with boxing themselves. His actual exploits in the ring and many awards in journalism are just icing on the cake.

TFK

 

word

 

I heard Richard Steele is invited to join the party and then he gets thrown out two seconds before the naming becomes official.

 

Another year that Donald Curry gets robbed.

 

NICE!!!....




REED:l2:

 

Yeah, that's BULLSHIT....



REED:boohoo:

 

There's a number of notables that deserve to be there and aren't, but I think Curry is the biggest. He accomplished more than MANY in the HOF, and in his prime he was better than PLENTY of guys in the HOF.

 

reed told me hamed is more worthy than the lone star cobra slobber

 

I would pay $59.99 to see Tom Daley take it up the shitter from Don Curry as Lloyd Honeyghan stands by mocking both of them.

 

LMAO! I'm no Hamed fan, but shit, he deserves to be in as well. Fucking BUM ASS Arturo Gatti is in the HOF! Hamed was accomplished enough to be in, was one of the lower weights all time great punchers, and is one of the main reasons why midget weight guys started getting paid decent. He deserves to be. Curry was a better fighter than Hamed though.

 

Curry, DeJesus, Pintor... no love... yet cans like Gatti who came along years later and were 1/16 as good get in

The Boxing Hall Of Fame makes the Baseball Hall Of Fame look logical by comparison

I don't have a problem with any of these guys getting in considering there are numerous lesser fighters than each already in there...

Like Nobe's once said, it's best to enjoy the IBHOF as a museum for the sport and a place to meet many of its participants

 

poor trinidad, he has to share his shining moment being inducted with two coke snortin fags. curry definitely shoulda been inducted instead of him THIS year

 

Calz "Oscar! You been in the bathroom with Curry for 30 mins now! I gotta do a few lines before I give a few lines, ya know what I mean? The fuck are you doin in there?" Oscar *Moaning* "We'll only be a few more mins. Mr. Curry is helping me put on my tie."

 

The HOF should be renamed to 'Karl & Friends'

 

Somebody should stand up by the podium and just throw playful jabs at Tito the whole time. He'll never get past them to make it up to the mic.

 

Im willing to meet you all you planet roy jones jr fans when he gets inducted in 2035 with my boy Holyfield.

 

Well, if all goes well and Holy doesn't find anymore backyards to fight in he should be good to go in 2016.

You might be close on Roy if he continues on this quest to fight in every Eastern European country that will give him a boxing license, that kind of mirrors Hector Camacho's quest to fight in every Native American Indian Casino that would grant him a boxing license. Camacho should finally get in next year.

 

Well it is a Hall of Fame.

If it was the Hall of Very Good, Curry and those guys would probably be in and Gatti would be out.

Gatti was much more famous than a lot of the so called snubs...I have never even heard of a lot of them.

 

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SERIOUS Question...

@ What Point Do Ya'll Think the INTERNET's Influence on Boxing will Be Recognized by the Hall of Fame???...Fans are Able to Access Results MUCH Quicker, REED MORE Articles, See MORE Fights, etc...PRIOR to the Internet, REED Could Count the # of INTELLIGENT Boxing Discussions he'd Engaged in On 1 Fucking Hand...

Will Individual SITES Be Inducted???...Youtube DEFINITELY Deserves HOF Induction, Among Others...



REED:hammert:

 

Ellie Seckbach will be the first internet journalist inducted