Also, I see the name of - 139 - Jeffery Fergunson - New Jersey - listed 5 times. Winning the National Golden Glove title from 1975 to 1979. His name was actually, Jeff Ferguson, and he did win the Golden Gloves 5 times, but that was the New Jersey Golden Gloves, he never won the National Golden Glov...

I keep seeing the name of Richard Hock as the 135-pound Champion in 1958. BUT didn't Billy Collins win that year? I am from New Jersey, and I don't have any record of Hock fighting in the Golden Gloves, or anywhere else! 1958 135 - Richard Hock - Jersey City 1958 Chicago, IL 112: Gil Yanez; Toledo 1...

Does anyone have the results of the 1991 National Silver Gloves?

Oscar Rivas defeated Ryan Rozicki on Friday night at the Olympia Theatre in Montreal, Canada to become the WBC's inaugural 'bridgerweight' champion. Rivas, whose only pro defeat came against Dillian Whyte in 2019, took scorecards of 116–111 and 115–112 twice to win the new belt via unanimous decisio...

He is alive and well. He lives in Florida now and I talked to him last week. I will reach out to him again!

BoxRec has 47 for him, which is the record as far as I know. As we do more research the totals change, not too long ago he was listed as having 50 first round KO's!

Ezzard Charles lost at least 6 times as an amateur, and fought a draw at least once: He lost to Jim Shuffelberger on December 2, 1936, He lost to Johnny Castro on March 3, 1937 in the Golden Gloves He lost to Freddy Lewis on April 13, 1937 He lost to Arthur Dorrell on March 1, 1938 in the Golden Glo...

Your right, I don't know what I was thinking!

I knew Paul Cavalier very well, in fact when he died I gave the Eulogy and Bell (9) Count at his wake. He was Louis's sparring partner and was never KO'ed by Louis during those sparring sessions Plus never fought him in a regular fight.

Packey McFarland fought 8 times with a 5-0-3 record against 4 different Hall of Famers and never lost - Britton 2-0-1 Mike Gibbons 1-0 Moran 1-0 Welsh 1-0-2

Roller Derby, he played for many teams including the New York Chiefs. He was inducted into the roller derby hall of fame.

Vince Shomo had an Amateur Boxing Record of 651-4 with most of his wins coming by knockouts. He use to box every week and sometimes 2 or 3 times a week. As a Pro, he was only 12 (3 KO)-10 (3 KO)-2. Vince Shomo won four New York (City) Golden Gloves Championships. Shomo won the 1956 featherweight Sub...

Here what it says in Ali book The Greatest. The day before I'm scheduled to leave for Atlanta, my last day to train for the Quarry fight, I'm in the gym and my sparring partner, Blue Lewis, is pounding my stomach like he would a medicine ball. I've been away from gyms for forty-two months, and Quarr...

I agree! My friend was one of his agents, so I don't know why Bowe would lie to him, But who knows! Here's what I do know: He graduated High School in June of 1986 Ancestry.Com has the following information, which states he was born in 1967: Name: Riddiok L Bowe Sr [Riddick L Dowe] Birth Date: 10 Au...

My friend just got off the phone with Bowe saying that he bet me that he was born in 1967. Bowe stated that you lost the bet, I was born in 1968.

Risko & Uzcudin both fought Baer Delaney Loughran Schmeling Walker Godfrey

For the modern class most of the voters are from the BWAA and the rest are Boxing Historians around the World.

Here is the list of Modern and Old-Timers that I received: International Boxing Hall of Fame Moderns - Last bout no earlier than 1989 Please check the candidates of your choice. You may vote for up to 5 boxers. You are not required to vote for 5, but you may not vote for more than 5. Ballots must be...

I have most of the Ring Magazines including the very 1st one back in 1922. I also have 2 copies of all the Ring Record Books.

Out of the 9 people that got in, I voted for 8 of them! Every year I get my ballots and since I was put on all the voting committees I always come up 1 short. I was with Steve Farhood the day it was announced, as I picked him up in New York for another voting committee, that would be the New York St...

Wow! 37 would be very hard to beat! I know many Amateur shows that had more BUT I don't know of any Pro shows! I will look into it later today!

Brian Ceballo fought for New York Metro not New Jersey.