The International Boxing Hall of Fame
Every year since 1990 members of the Boxing Writers Association of America and an international panel of boxing historians have been selecting inductees for the modern International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF). Established by Ed Brophy in Canastota, New York, the ceremonies honour and celebrate boxing champions around the world.
If 1990 seems too recent, this is because the Ring magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame was disbanded in 1987. Since its launch in 1954, it had a total of 155 inductees, all but 14 of which have also been inducted to the IBHOF as of 2018.
Professional boxers are eligible for the IBHOF five years after their retirement, and the selection criteria are as follows:
Modern: Retired boxers whose last bout was no earlier than 1989. Prior to a 2014 rule change, the category reflected boxers whose last bout was after 1943.
Old Timers: Until 2014, the rule was boxers whose last bout was no earlier than 1893 and no later than 1942. This category has since changed, similar to the Veterans Committee in baseball's Hall of Fame. It is now split into two categories.
Early Era: Boxers who fought from the beginning of Marquis of Queensbury Rules (1893) until 1942.
Late Era: Boxers who fought their bout from 1943 to 1988
Pioneers: Boxers whose last bout was in or prior to 1892. Generally, they are boxers who fought before the Marquis of Queensbury Rules.
Observers: Journalists, historians, writers and artists.
Non-Participants: People who made contributions to the sport of boxing apart from their roles as boxers or observers.
Below you may find lists of the inductees:
Modern
1990 Muhammad Ali
1990 Henry Armstrong
1990 Carmen Basilio
1990 Ezzard Charles
1990 Billy Conn
1990 Bob Foster
1990 Joe Frazier
1990 Kid Gavilán
1990 Emile Griffith
1990 Jake LaMotta
1990 Joe Louis
1990 Rocky Marciano
1990 Carlos Monzón
1990 Archie Moore
1990 José Nápoles
1990 Willie Pep
1990 "Sugar" Ray Robinson
1990 Sandy Saddler
1990 Jersey Joe Walcott
1990 Ike Williams
1991 Marcel Cerdan
1991 Gene Fullmer
1991 Rocky Graziano
1991 Beau Jack
1991 Sonny Liston
1991 Rubén Olivares
1991 Carlos Ortíz
1991 Floyd Patterson
1991 Salvador Sánchez
1991 Dick Tiger
1991 Tony Zale
1992 Alexis Argüello
1992 Nino Benvenuti
1992 Charley Burley
1992 Billy Graham
1992 Éder Jofre
1992 Ken Norton
1992 Max Schmeling
1993 Flash Elorde
1993 Joey Giardello
1993 Marvin Hagler
1993 Harold Johnson
1993 Fritzie Zivic
1994 Jack Kid Berg
1994 Joey Maxim
1994 Michael Spinks
1994 Carlos Zárate
1995 Wilfredo Gómez
1995 Fighting Harada
1995 Bob Montgomery
1995 Pascual Pérez
1996 Wilfred Benítez
1996 Joe Brown
1996 Manuel Ortiz
1996 Aaron Pryor
1997 "Sugar" Ray Leonard
1997 Luis Manuel Rodríguez
1997 José Torres
1997 Chalky Wright
1998 Sammy Angott
1998 Miguel Canto
1998 Antonio Cervantes
1998 Matthew Saad Muhammad
1999 Jimmy Bivins
1999 Khaosai Galaxy
1999 Lew Jenkins
1999 Eusebio Pedroza
1999 Vicente Saldivar
2000 Ken Buchanan
2000 Jimmy Carter
2000 Jeff Chandler
2000 Bobo Olson
2001 Ismael Laguna
2001 László Papp
2001 Willie Pastrano
2001 Sugar Ramos
2001 Randy Turpin
2002 José "Pipino" Cuevas
2002 Jeff Fenech
2002 Víctor Galíndez
2002 Ingemar Johansson
2003 Fred Apostoli
2003 Curtis Cokes
2003 George Foreman
2003 Nicolino Locche
2003 Mike McCallum
2004 Azumah Nelson
2004 Carlos Palomino
2004 Dwight Muhammad Qawi
2004 Daniel Zaragoza
2005 Bobby Chacon
2005 Duilio Loi
2005 Barry McGuigan
2005 Terry Norris
2006 Michael Carbajal
2006 Humberto González
2006 Edwin Rosario
2007 Roberto Durán
2007 Ricardo López
2007 Pernell Whitaker
2008 Larry Holmes
2008 Eddie Perkins
2008 Holman Williams
2009 Orlando Canizales
2009 Lennox Lewis
2009 Brian Mitchell
2010 Chang Jung-koo
2010 Danny Lopez
2010 Lloyd Marshall
2011 Julio César Chávez
2011 Kostya Tszyu
2011 Mike Tyson
2012 Herbert Hardwick
2012 Thomas Hearns
2012 Mark Johnson
2013 Arturo Gatti
2013 Virgil Hill
2013 Yuh Myung-woo
2014 Joe Calzaghe
2014 Oscar De La Hoya
2014 Félix Trinidad
2015 Naseem Hamed
2015 Riddick Bowe
2015 Ray Mancini
2015 Masao Ohba
2015 Yoko Gushiken
2016 Hector Camacho
2016 Lupe Pintor
2016 Hilario Zapata
2017 Marco Antonio Barrera
2017 Eddie Booker
2017 Evander Holyfield
2017 Johnny Tapia
2018 Vitali Klitschko
2018 Érik Morales
2018 Winky Wright
2019 Donald Curry
2019 Julian Jackson
2019 Tony DeMarco
2019 Buddy McGirt
2020 Bernard Hopkins
2020 Juan Manuel Márquez
2020 Shane Mosley
2021 Wladimir Klitschko
2021 Floyd Mayweather Jr.
2021 Andre Ward
2022 Miguel Cotto
2022 Roy Jones Jr.
2022 James Toney
Old Timers
1990 Abe Attell
1990 Jack Britton
1990 Tony Canzoneri
1990 James J. Corbett
1990 Jack Dempsey
1990 George Dixon
1990 Jim Driscoll
1990 Bob Fitzsimmons
1990 Joe Gans
1990 Harry Greb
1990 Peter Jackson
1990 James J. Jeffries
1990 Jack Johnson
1990 Stanley Ketchel
1990 Sam Langford
1990 Benny Leonard
1990 Terry McGovern
1990 Barney Ross
1990 Gene Tunney
1990 Mickey Walker
1990 Jimmy Wilde
1991 Georges Carpentier
1991 Kid Chocolate
1991 Johnny Dundee
1991 Young Griffo
1991 Tommy Loughran
1991 Charles McCoy
1991 Jimmy McLarnin
1991 Tommy Ryan
1991 Joe Walcott
1992 Lou Ambers
1992 Al Brown
1992 Jack "Nonpareil" Dempsey
1992 Mike Gibbons
1992 Gershon "Ted Kid Lewis" Mendeloff
1992 Packey McFarland
1992 Battling Nelson
1992 Harry Wills
1993 Les Darcy
1993 Tiger Flowers
1993 Tommy Gibbons
1993 Maxie Rosenbloom
1994 John Henry Lewis
1994 Philadelphia Jack O'Brien
1994 Jack Sharkey
1994 Pancho Villa
1995 Max Baer
1995 Jack Dillon
1995 Johnny Kilbane
1995 Jack McAuliffe
1996 Tommy Burns
1996 Jack Delaney
1996 Fidel LaBarba
1996 Young Stribling
1996 Kid Williams
1997 Pete Herman
1997 Joe Jeanette
1997 Freddie Miller
1997 Freddie Welsh
1998 Joe Choynski
1998 Frankie Genaro
1998 George Lavign
1998 Benny Lynch
1998 Sammy Mandell
1999 Johnny Coulon
1999 Sam McVey
1999 Freddie Steele
1999 Lew Tendler
2000 Jimmy Barry
2000 Battling Levinsky
2000 Billy Petrolle
2000 Adolph Wolgast
2001 Paul Berlenbach
2001 James J. Braddock
2001 Billy Papke
2001 Midget Wolgast
2002 Benny Bass
2002 Sixto Escobar
2002 Harry Harris
2002 Dixie Kid
2002 Charley Mitchell
2002 Owen Moran
2003 Battling Battalino
2003 Louis Kaplan
2003 Tom Sharkey
2003 Jess Willard
2004 Baby Arizmendi
2004 Young Corbett III
2004 Jackie Fields
2004 Willie Ritchie
2005 Eugène Criqui
2005 Joe Lynch
2005 Charles "Bud" Taylor
2005 Marcel Thil
2006 Lou Brouillard
2006 Jimmy Slattery
2006 Teddy Yarosz
2007 George Godfrey
2007 Pedro Montañez
2007 Kid Norfolk
2008 Len Harvey
2008 Frank Klaus
2008 Harry Lewis
2009 William Jones
2009 Billy Smith
2009 Billy Soose
2010 Young Corbett II
2010 Rocky Kansas
2010 Billy Miske
2011 Memphis Pal Moore
2011 Jack Root
2011 Dave Shade
2012 Newsboy Brown
2012 Leo Hauck
2012 Jake Kilrain
2013 Wesley Ramey
2013 Jeff Smith
2014 George Chaney
2014 Mike O'Dowd
2014 Charles Ledoux
2015 Yoko Gushiken
2015 Ken Overlin
2016 Petey Sarron
2017 Eddie Booker
2018 Sid Terris
2019 Tony DeMarco
2020 Frank Erne
2021 Davey Moore
2022 Tod Morgan
Women’s Modern
2020 Christy Martin
2020 Lucia Rijker
2021 Laila Ali
2021 Ann Wolfe
2022 Holly Holm
2022 Regina Halmich
Women’s Trailblazer
2020 Barbara Buttrick
2021 Marian "Lady Tyger" Trimiar
2021 Jackie Tonawanda
Pioneers
1990 Jack Broughton
1990 Jem Mace
1990 Daniel Mendoza
1990 Tom Sayers
1990 John L. Sullivan
1991 Tom Cribb
1991 William "Bendigo" Thompson
1992 Jem Belcher
1992 James Figg
1992 James Burke
1992 John Jackson
1992 Thomas King
1992 Nat Langham
1992 Tom Spring
1993 Hen Pearce
1994 Benjamin Brain
1995 Tom Johnson
1995 Jem Ward
1996 John Morrissey
1997 Tom Molineaux
1997 Dutch Sam
1998 Professor Mike Donovan
2000 Arthur Chambers
2001 Barney Aaron
2002 John C. Heenan
2002 Young Dutch Sam
2003 Caleb Baldwin
2003 Joe Goss
2004 Billy Edwards
2005 Jack Randall
2005 Bill Richmond
2006 Jem Carney
2007 Young Barney Aaron
2007 Dick Curtis
2008 Dan Donnelly
2008 Paddy Duffy
2009 Tom Hyer
2010 Paddington Tom Jones
2011 John Gully
2012 James Wharton
2013 Joe Coburn
2014 Tom Allen
2020 Paddy Ryan
Non-Participants
Whitey Esneault (2016)
Howard Grant (2019)
Johnny Addie (2018)
Thomas S. Andrews (1992)
Ray Arcel (1991)
Bob Arum (1999)
Jarvis Astaire (2006)
Giuseppe Ballarati (1999)
George Benton (2001)
Ignacio Beristáin (2011)
Al Bernstein (2012)
A.F. Bettinson (2011)
Whitey Bimstein (2006)
Jack Blackburn (1992)
William A. Brady (1998)
Umberto Branchini (2004)
Teddy Brenner (1993)
Freddie Brown (2021)
Amilcar Brusa (2007)
Michael Buffer (2012)
Bill Cayton (2005)
John Graham Chambers (1990)
Don Chargin (2001)
Lorainne Chargin (2018)
Stanley Christodoulou (2004)
Gil Clancy (1993)
Irving Cohen (2002)
James W. Coffroth (1991)
Cuco Conde (2007)
Joe Cortez (2011)
Cus D'Amato (1995)
Lou DiBella (2020)
Jeff Dickson (2000)
Arthur Donovan (1993)
Mickey Duff (1999)
Angelo Dundee (1994)
Chris Dundee (1994)
Don Dunphy (1993)
Dan Duva (2003)
Kathy Duva (2020)
Lou Duva (1998)
Aileen Eaton (2002)
Pierce Egan (1991)
Don Elbaum (2019)
Shelly Finkel (2010)
Nat Fleischer (1990)
Richard Kyle Fox (1997)
Dewey Fragetta (2003)
Don Fraser (2005)
Eddie Futch (1994)
Billy Gibson (2009)
Charley Goldman (1992)
Ruby Goldstein (1994)
Bob Goodman (2009)
Dr. Margaret Goodman (2021)
Murray Goodman (1999)
Dan Goossen (2020)
Bill Gore (2008)
Abe J. Greene (2009)
Larry Hazzard (2010)
Barry Hearn (2014)
Akihiko Honda (2009)
Joe Humphreys (1997)
Sam Ichinose (2001)
Jimmy Jacobs (1993)
Mike Jacobs (1990)
Jimmy Johnston (1999)
Guy Jutras (2019)
J. P. Leo "Jack 'Doc' Kearns" McKernan (1990)
Don King (1997)
Klaus-Peter Kohl (2018)
Mills Lane (2013)
Tito Lectoure (1997)
Harold Lederman (2015)
A.J. Liebling (1992)
Hugh, Earl of Lonsdale (1996)
Harry Markson (1992)
John, Marquess of Queensberry (1990)
Jackie McCoy (2021)
Arthur Mercante (1995)
Dan Morgan (2000)
William Muldoon (1996)
Gilbert Odd (1995)
Tom O'Rourke (1999)
Mogens Palle (2008)
Dan Parker (1996)
George Parnassus (1991)
J Russell Peltz (2004)
Tex Rickard (1990)
Freddie Roach (2012)
Irving Rudd (1999)
Rodolfo Sabbatini (2006)
Lee Samuels (2019)
Lope Sarreal (2005)
Wilfried Sauerland (2010)
George Siler (1995)
Sam Silverman (2002)
Jack Solomons (1995)
Sylvester Stallone (2010)
Richard Steele (2014)
Emanuel Steward (1997)
José Sulaimán (2007)
Sam Taub (1995)
Herman Taylor (1998)
Bruce Trampler (2010)
Rip Valenti (2012)
Lou Viscusi (2004)
Jimmy Walker (1992)
Frank Warren (2008)
Al Weill (2003)
Steve Smoger (2015)
Observers
Steve Albert (2018)
Dave Anderson (2008)
Teddy Atlas (2019)
Lester Bromberg (2001)
Jimmy Cannon (2002)
Harry Carpenter (2011)
Ralph Citro (2001)
Howard Cosell (2010)
Tad Dorgan (2007)
Steve Farhood (2017)
Bernard Fernandez (2020)
Jack Fiske (2003)
Paul Gallico (2009)
Bill Gallo (2001)
Jim Gray (2018)
Reg Gutteridge (2002)
Thomas Hauser (2020)
W.C. Heinz (2004)
Jersey Jones (2005)
Hank Kaplan (2006)
Michael Katz (2012)
George Kimball (2021)
Joe Koizumi (2008)
Jim Lampley (2015)
Jay Larkin (2021)
Mario Rivera Martino (2019)
Hugh McIlvanney (2009)
Larry Merchant (2009)
Harry Mullan (2005)
Barney Nagler (2004)
LeRoy Neiman (2007)
Damon Runyon (2002)
Budd Schulberg (2003)
Ed Schuyler (2010)
Herbert "Bert" Sugar (2005)
Stanley Weston (2006)
Reference
2022. International Boxing Hall of Fame. [online] Available at: <http://www.ibhof.com> [Accessed 22 September 2022].
En.wikipedia.org. 2022. International Boxing Hall of Fame - Wikipedia. [online] Available at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Boxing_Hall_of_Fame> [Accessed 22 September 2022].
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