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The New York State Boxing HOF has announced their Inductees for the New York State Boxing HOF to be held April 28,2013 in Queens, NY. (This HOF should not be confused with the INtl. Boxing HOF in Cananstota ,NY).

For the 2nd Annual Induction are (in no particular order) Joey Archer, Mark Breland, Doug Jones, Junior Jones, Bobby Cassidy,Eddie Mustafa Muhhamed, Jack Dempsey, Shelley Finkel, Bob Arum, Tex Rickard There are others but the official press release will issued on Monday March 4th.

Congratulations to All.

Here's the full list:

Living Boxers:
1. Joey Archer
2. Iran Barkley
3. Mark Breland
4. Bobby Cassidy
5. Doug Jones
6. Junior Jones
7. James "Buddy" McGirt
8. Eddie Mustafa Muhammad

Deceased Boxers:
1. Jack Dempsey
2. Johnny Dundee
3. Maxie Rosenbloom
4. Sandy Saddler

Living Non-Boxers:
1. Bob Arum
2. Shelly Finkel
3. Tony Graziano
4. Larry Merchant

Deceased Non-Boxers:
1. Teddy Brenner
2. Don Dunphy
3. Mike Jacobs
4. Tex Rickard

Also the 1st Class of the New Las Vegas Boxing Hall of Fame will be announced very shortly. They had 19 Boxing Historians pick their top 50 fighters of all-time. Any fighter that received at least 75% or 15 votes was inducted. In the end they voted in 25.

The new Boxing Hall of Fame will be located in the Luxor Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas strip. It will be part of major new sports attraction called, SCORE!.

The SCORE! attraction has a prime location right next to the Titanic and Bodies exhibits on the mezzanine level of the Hotel.

SCORE! will contain exhibits from each major sports hall of fame including baseball, football, hockey, basketball and NASCAR.

The SCORE! attraction will contain rare memorabilia from each Hall of Fame.

The video in each exhibit is a critical part as it makes each sport come to life. The Boxing Hall of Fame owns the exclusive HOF rights to the massive ESPN/Classic Sports fight film and tape library. The library spans over a century beginning with Thomas Edison's filming of Gentleman Jim Corbett in 1894 right through to the fights of "Iron" Mike Tyson. No other sports hall of fame in the world contains such an inventory of films and tapes.

I am proud to say that I was on both voting committees.

Thank You Henry !!!