The modern International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) is located in Canastota, New York, United
States, within driving distance from the Baseball Hall of Fame
and Museum in Cooperstown and the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta. The
IBHOF is one of two recognized international boxing hall of fames, with the other being the World Boxing Hall of Fame.
The first Boxing Hall of Fame was sponsored by Ring magazine and located
for decades at the offices of the Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. In a related item, when MSG recently replaced its' 82 year old 18½' × 18½' ring
with a larger version, the structure was donated to the IBHOF where it will stand in the amptheatre section of the building.
However, in 1990, as a consequence of an initiative by Ed Brophy to honor Canastota's world boxing champions, Carmen Basilio and Basilio's nephew, Billy Backus, the village of
Canastota inaugurated the new museum, which showcases boxing's rich history. Multi-award winning artist Richard T. Slone 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 7, 2006, Roberto
Duran, Ricardo Lopez and Pernell
Whitaker were announced as the next world champion boxers to be inducted as living inductees. They headed a class that
also included non-participants and numerous posthumous fighter inductees.
The Hall of Fame's current roster includes:
Modern era
Old timers
- Lou Ambers
- Baby Arizmendi (2004)
- Abe Attell
- Max Baer (1995)
- Jimmy Barry (2000)
- Benny Bass (2002)
- Battling Battalino (2003)
- Paul Berlenbach
- James J. Braddock (2001)
- Jack Britton
- Panama Al Brown
- Lou Brouillard (2006)
- Tommy Burns
- Tony Canzoneri
- Georges Carpentier
- Kid Chocolate
- Joe Choynski (1998)
- James J. Corbett
- Young Corbett III (2004)
- Johnny Coulon (1999)
- Eugene Criqui (2005)
- Les Darcy
- Jack Delaney
- Jack Dempsey
- Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey
- Jim Driscoll
- Jack Dillon
- George Dixon
- Johnny Dundee
- Sixto Escobar (2002)
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- Jackie Fields (2004)
- Bob Fitzsimmons
- Tiger Flowers
- Joe Gans
- Frankie Genaro (1998)
- Mike Gibbons
- Tommy Gibbons
- Harry Greb
- Young Griffo
- Harry Harris (2002)
- Pete Herman (1997)
- Peter Jackson
- Joe Jeanette (1997)
- James J. Jeffries
- Jack Johnson
- Louis "Kid" Kaplan (2003)
- Stanley Ketchel
- Dixie Kid (2002)
- Johnny Kilbane
- Fidel LaBarba
- Sam Langford
- George "Kid" Lavigne (1998)
- Benny Leonard
- Battling Levinsky
- John Henry Lewis
- Ted "Kid" Lewis
- Tommy Loughran
- Joe Lynch (2005)
- Benny Lynch (1998)
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- Sammy Mandell (1998)
- Jack McAuliffe (1995)
- Charles "Kid" McCoy
- Packey McFarland
- Terry McGovern
- Jimmy McLarnin
- Sam McVey (1999)
- Freddie Miller (1997)
- Charley Mitchell
- Owen Moran (2002)
- Battling Nelson
- Philadelphia Jack O'Brien
- Billy Papke (2001)
- Billy Petrolle
- Willie Ritchie (2004)
- Maxie Rosenbloom
- Barney Ross
- Tommy Ryan
- Jack Sharkey
- Jimmy Slattery (2006)
- Tom Sharkey (2003)
- Freddie Steele
- Young Stribling
- Charles "Bud" Taylor (2005)
- Lew Tendler (1999)
- Marcel Thil (2005)
- Gene Tunney
- Pancho Villa
- Barbados Joe Walcott
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- Mickey Walker
- Freddie Welsh (1997)
- Jimmy Wilde
- Jess Willard (2003)
- Kid Williams
- Harry Wills
- Ad Wolgast
- Midget Wolgast (2001)
- Teddy Yarosz (2006)
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Pioneers
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- Barney Aaron
- Caleb Baldwin
- Jem Belcher
- Benjamin Brain
- Jack Broughton
- James Burke
- Jem Carney
- Arthur Chambers
- Tom Cribb
- Professor Mike Donovan
- Paddy Duffy
- Billy Edwards
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- James Figg
- Joe Goss
- John Gully
- John C. Heenan
- John Jackson
- Tom Johnson
- Tom King
- Nat Langham
- Jem Mace
- Daniel Mendoza
- Tom Molineaux
- John Morrissey
- Henry Pearce
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- Jack Randall
- Bill Richmond
- Dutch Sam
- Young Dutch Sam
- Tom Sayers
- Tom Spring
- John L. Sullivan
- Bendigo Thompson
- Jem Ward
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Non-participants
- Thomas S. Andrews
- Ray Arcel
- Bob Arum
- Jarvis Astaire
- Giuseppe Ballarati
- George Benton
- Jack Blackburn
- William A. Brady
- Humberto Branchini
- Teddy Brenner
- Bill Cayton
- John Graham Chambers
- Don Chargin
- Stanley Christodoulou
- Gil Clancy
- Irving Cohen
- James W. Coffroth
- Cus D'Amato
- Jeff Dickson
- Arthur Donovan
- Mickey Duff
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- Angelo Dundee
- Chris Dundee
- Don Dunphy
- Dan Duva
- Lou Duva
- Aileen Eaton
- Pierce Egan
- Nat Fleischer
- Richard Kyle Fox
- Dewey Fragetta
- Don Fraser
- Eddie Futch
- Charley Goldman
- Ruby Goldstein
- Murray Goodman
- Joe Humphreys
- Sam Ichinose
- Jimmy Jacobs
- Mike Jacobs
- Jimmy Johnston
- Jack Kearns
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- Don King
- Tito Lectoure
- A.J. Liebling
- Lord Lonsdale
- Harry Markson
- Marquess of Queensberry
- Arthur Mercante
- Dan Morgan
- William Muldoon
- Gilbert Odd
- Tom O'Rourke
- Dan Parker
- George Parnassus
- Tex Rickard
- Irving Rudd
- Rodolfo Sabbatini
- Lope Sarreal
- George Siler
- Sam Silverman
- Jack Solomons
- Emanuel Steward
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- Sam Taub
- Herman Taylor
- Lou Viscosi
- Jimmy Walker
- Al Weill
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Observers
- Lester Bromberg
- Jimmy Cannon
- Ralph Citro
- Jack Fiske
- Bill Gallo
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- Reg Gutteridge
- W.C. Heinz
- Jersey Jones
- Hank Kaplan
- Harry Mullan
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- Barney Nagler
- Damon Runyon
- Budd Schulberg
- Bert Sugar
- Stanley Weston
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