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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