33rd annual Ring 8 Holiday Event & Awards Ceremony Another KO event
PhilBoxing.com
Wed, 11 Dec 2019
New York State Boxing Hall of Fame's Class of 2020 Announced
NEW YORK (December 10, 2019) - The 33rd annual Ring 8 Holiday Event and Awards Ceremony was held this past Sunday at Russo's On The Bay in Howard Beach, New York. There were 354 attendees.
The New York State Boxing Hall of Fame, sponsored by Ring 8, announced its Class of 2020 (see below)
Headlining Ring 8's 2019 Awards Ceremony were Fighter of the Decade, Amanda "Real Deal" Serrano (37-1-1, 27 KOs), of Brooklyn by way of Puerto Rico; undefeated heavyweight contender (Fighter of the Year) Adam "Babyface" Kownacki (20-0, 15 KOs), of Brooklyn by way of Poland; Legend Award winners three-time, three-division world champion Iran "The Blade" Barkley (43-19,1 27 KOs), of Bronx, and two-time, two-division world champion Junior "Poison" Jones (50-6, 28 KOs), of Brooklyn; and two-time world heavyweight champion "Terrible" Tim Witherspoon (55-13-1, 28 KOs), of Philadelphia, the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award winner.
Twenty-eight new NYSBHOF inductees were announced (see below):
The seventh annual New York State Boxing Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be held, Sunday, April 19, 2020, at Russo's on The Bay.
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