Boxrec Hall of Fame Voting Results! (May 2011)

[Ambling Alp]

The results are in !
Joe Brown, Roberto Duran, John Henry Lewis,Benny Lynch, Luis Rodriguez,Freddie Steele, and Pernell Whitaker have been elected! More detailed results will follow.

[Expug]

The heck,
still no Fritzie Zivic.

[Jaywheel]

About time for Lewis and Steele.

[BoxBuzz]

damn too late......I missed it! But it looks like it went down about right.

[jaclem2]

..always glad to see fritzie zivic not in...

[SaadOffTheDeck]

Glad to see El Feo and Lewis finally make it.

Next I need to see Newsboy Brown make it since he has criminally never made the real one.

O'Dowd, Arizmendi, Blackburn & Booker too.

[Expug]

..always glad to see fritzie zivic not in...

Yeah,I can see that the ballot you took the time to fill out and submit didnt have his name on it.
Oh....wait.

[jaclem2]

...expug.....the guys i would have voted for mostly made it......the only ones i really cared about were maxim and john henry lewis...and maxim will make it eventually and belatedley...

congratulations, though, on being the first to jump on me because of my zivic comment. there are many others who agree with you. they're not right, but there are a lot of them.

[Ambling Alp]

Here is some more detailed information about the voting:
10 people voted; 7 votes were needed to be elected.

Duran got 9 votes
Lewis and Whitaker got 8 votes
Brown, Benny Lynch, Rodriguez, and Steele got 7 votes

Flash Elorde, Vincente Saldivar Midget Wolgast, Joe Jeannette, and Harry Wills just missed with 6 votes.

5 votes-Jimmy Barry, Jem Driscoll, Frankie Genaro, Mike Gibbons, Freddie Welsh.

4 Votes-Bat Battalino, Young Griffo, Kid McCoy,Jack Dillion, Fritzie Zivic, and Johnny Dundee

3 votes-Sammy Mandell, aaron Pryor, Joey Maxim, Mike O'Dowd, Ismael Laguna, Jack Delaney, Peter Jackson and Azumah Nelson

2 Votes- Pete Herman, Miguel Canto, Sugar Ramos, Baby Arizmendi,Jack Blackburn, Eddie Booker, Cocoa Kid,Joe Mcaulliffe,Owen Moran,Battling Nelson,Ad Wolgast, and Rocky Kansas.

1 vote - Dwight Muhammad Qawi, Kid Williams,Newboy Brown, Tiger Jack Fox, Terry Norris, Rodrigo Valdez, Jimmy Carter, Ricardo Lopez, Bob TOlson,Jeff Smith, Georges Carpentier, Rocky Graziano, al Hostak, Lew Jenkins, Joe Lynch, Mike Mctigue,Kid norfolk, Eddie Perkins, Charley Phil Rosenberg, Tom sharkey,Battling Siki, Ken Buchanan, Lou Brouillard, Franke Burns, Memophis Pal Moore, Lew Tendler,Teddy Yarosz, Billy Miske, and Jimmy slattery.

73 fighters received at least one vote.

[SaadOffTheDeck]

So Azumah was actually on the ballot?

[Ambling Alp]

We used to to do them every 3 months, but I just don't have the time I used to and there does not seem to be the interest as there used to be. So I have just been doing them every 6 months.

As for Nelson-Maybe this would be a good time to discuss this. Going by the rules, Nelson should not be eligible until 2018. He had retired in 1998, but he had a comback fight in 2008.

I have brought this up before, but there didn't seem to be much interest in it. If we are going to make a new rule, we should clear on how we are doing it. If we do make a new rule it would have to apply to anyone in that circumstance.

What do you guys think?

[Ezzard]

We used to to do them every 3 months, but I just don't have the time I used to and there does not seem to be the interest as there used to be. So I have just been doing them every 6 months.

As for Nelson-Maybe this would be a good time to discuss this. Going by the rules, Nelson should not be eligible until 2018. He had retired in 1998, but he had a comback fight in 2008.

I have brought this up before, but there didn't seem to be much interest in it. If we are going to make a new rule, we should clear on how we are doing it. If we do make a new rule it would have to apply to anyone in that circumstance.

What do you guys think?

maybe the new rule can be :

if a certain fighter has retired and comes back after five years minimum he must have more than two fights for that to be recognized as his start of 10 year wait period.

cause nelson retired in '98 then comes back 10 years later to fight fenech for really no real reason i think it'd be silly to wait until 2018 because of that dumbness

also let's do it every four months! three times a year (for the hall of fame ballots) we just need to get more people interested in the BOTP! i guess too many ignorant posters on here?

I agree. Neither Azumah or Jeff are making a comeback and their could not have been more than an exhibition.

[raylawpc]

We used to to do them every 3 months, but I just don't have the time I used to and there does not seem to be the interest as there used to be. So I have just been doing them every 6 months.

As for Nelson-Maybe this would be a good time to discuss this. Going by the rules, Nelson should not be eligible until 2018. He had retired in 1998, but he had a comback fight in 2008.

I have brought this up before, but there didn't seem to be much interest in it. If we are going to make a new rule, we should clear on how we are doing it. If we do make a new rule it would have to apply to anyone in that circumstance.

What do you guys think?

maybe the new rule can be :

if a certain fighter has retired and comes back after five years minimum he must have more than two fights for that to be recognized as his start of 10 year wait period.

cause nelson retired in '98 then comes back 10 years later to fight fenech for really no real reason i think it'd be silly to wait until 2018 because of that dumbness

also let's do it every four months! three times a year (for the hall of fame ballots) we just need to get more people interested in the BOTP! i guess too many ignorant posters on here?

Or reduce the waiting period from 10 years to 5 years. The real life Baseball HOF, Pro Football HOF, and Basketball HOF make players eligible five years after retirement.