Calzaghe, De La Hoya, Trinidad and Barry Hearn To Be Inducted Into Hall of Fame

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Unbeaten Welsh star Joe Calzaghe, US icon Oscar "Golden Boy" De La Hoya and Puerto Rico's Felix Trinidad were among those named Thursday as 2014 inductees into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

The induction ceremonies will be at the upstate New York facility on June 8.

Others to be inducted include promoter Barry Hearn  , referee Richard Steele  , photographer Neil Leifer, journalist Graham Houston and posthumous honourees Tom Allen, Mike O'Dowd, Charles Ledoux, George Chaney and referee Eugene Corri.

Calzaghe, 41, finished a 15-year professional career 46-0 with 32 knockouts and defended his super-middleweight crown 21 times. In his final fights at light heavyweight, Calzaghe dispatched Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones.

"I'm so excited," Calzaghe said.

"I'm very proud and humbled. I think it's amazing to be inducted. This is a massive, massive honour, just fantastic. To be up there with all the legends is the ultimate honour for me."

De La Hoya, 41, finished 39-6 with 30 knockouts after claiming the 1992 Barcelona Olympic lightweight gold medal. He became a world champion in five weight classes from lightweight to middleweight.

After losing a split decision to Floyd Mayweather in 2007 and being stopped in the eighth round by Manny Pacquiao in 2008, de la Hoya retired to devote himself full-time to Golden Boy Promotions, which he began in 2002 and quickly made into a major force in boxing.

"I'm honoured and appreciative to be chosen," De la Hoya said.

"This is the dream of everyone who puts on a pair of gloves and steps between the ropes.

"To know that I will be in the Hall of fame with the greats of this sport is humbling but it has also put a smile on my face that isn't coming off any time soon."

Trinidad, 40, finished 42-3 with 35 knockouts, captured the International Boxing Federation welterweight title in his 20th pro fight and made 15 successful title defences, 12 of them by knockouts. Among his victims were de la Hoya and Pernell Whitaker.

Trinidad took two world titles at light middleweight and in 2001 moved up to claim the World Boxing Association middleweight crown.

His only defeats came at the hands of Hopkins and in his final two fights, to Winky Wright and Jones.

"This is tremendous news," Trinidad said.

"This is a great honour for me. I'm extremely happy to be inducted with all the Puerto Rican boxers already in the Hall of Fame. This is the biggest triumph in my career."


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-05/oscar-de-la-hoya-among-latest-inducted-into-boxing-hall-of-fame/5136062

Fair enough, I agree the commentary seemed pro Oscar, but still thought he won it, despite getting on his bike for no reason.

milkyboy wrote:Fair enough, I agree the commentary seemed pro Oscar,  but still thought he won it, despite getting on his bike for no reason.

He was knackered. He fought tight over the first quarter -- impossible to keep it up over twelve rounds. Trinidad -- a notorious slow starter -- came on as the fight progressed and Oscar fled.

Well that's how I'd expect you to see it haz, yes! Certainly Oscar tended to fade in fights and Tito was a slow starter. I'll give you that much. Thought he had it in the bag and played safe... instead of sticking with what had got him the lead in the first place, is more the consensus I think.

milkyboy wrote:Well that's how I'd expect you to see it haz, yes! Certainly Oscar tended to fade in fights and Tito was a slow starter. I'll give you that much. Thought he had it in the bag and played safe... instead of sticking with what had got him the lead in the first place, is more the consensus I think.

That's about the fourth poster to make a weird remark like that today "people like Haz" etc. Hmmm....

Oscar didn't stop fighting four rounds from the finish because he thought he'd won -- he was blowing. He lost the Mosley fights down the stretch, too.

Haz, you don't like de la Hoya. You do like trinidad. So that's why I'd expect you to see it like that. You think trinidad won the fight, that's not the consensus. No problem with your opinion, no agenda here.

I thought Trinidad nicked it -- a draw would have been a more just result as neither managed to live up the the occasion.
 
Scandalous we didn't get the return.

I agree with that, both had a point to prove in a return.