there ought to be a third category of non participant and also not professionally involved, so as to include Stallone and DeNiro. A kind of honorary inclusion, like all those honourary degrees that thickbricks get from Universities wanting to cash in on their fame.
It's not as a non-participant, it's as an "observer" for screenwriting. Only issue I have with that is that the other writers of boxing fiction also covered boxing as journalists. Stallone didn't do that, he only wrote boxing fiction. De Niro is awesome, unquestionably.
De Niro is the greatest actor of all time Being in the HOF or not is least of his acheivements / worries
Stallone is listed as a non-participant, right above Emmanuel Stewart. atsch The HOF is now irrelevant, and a Hollywood joke. If Stallone can get in there, then anyone with connections can.
Hall of fames in every sport have low standards so not many wouldn't belong. Any semi decent boxer will get in
Virtually to a man the (Modern) candidates I would have picked. I'm less concerned about existing inductees, and more bothered that future inductees are of the right calibre. There really needs to be some better quality control going forward to prevent the HOF being diluted into insignificance.
Well which HOF are we talking about? The one that holds more "clout" is the IBHOF. There's a few guys in there that I scratch my head about how they got in. Of more recent times, I'd say Gatti is quite undeserving of being put in that class of the HOF. He was a very fun fighter to watch, but he was never a HOF type of fighter. Blood and guts warrior no doubt, but not HOF caliber.
It's pretty simple, you compare the resume of one guy with another one that's in the HOF. Makes it easier if you can find guys who boxed at the same weight classes and compare/contrast their overall resumes and performances. I get what you're saying, that internet posters shouldn't be able to say who's a HOF'er and whose not, but it's pretty simple to do a compare/contrast type of analysis and find a few fighters that don't look like they matchup to their fellow inductees.