Fighters who dont belong in the HOF who are in

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.

 

u talking to me?

 

Noo, just saying lol

 

oh all right then.

just asking lol

 

I hurd things...:yep

 

Hall of fames in every sport have low standards so not many wouldn't belong. Any semi decent boxer will get in

 

:hey:good

never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut :deal

 

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.

 

Arturo Gatti & Sylvester Stallone

 

stallone isn't a real fighter. gatti is the worst what a joke