Does the IBHOF have a moral obligation to induct fighters elected to the Ring Hall of Fame?

Yes. Grandfather them in.

 

I wouldn’t think so unless the criteria are the same.

Ring still exists. It can revive its HoF virtually and maybe one day find a physical space to house it.

 

Idk, what i DO KNOW is that Ceferino Garcia and Gus Lesnevich are 1000000% Hall of Famers and both are still yet to be inducted into the IBHOFn despite being in The Ring HOF

 

I like that idea. Ceferino Garcia should be in!

 

Run by a magazine that was involved in a ratings-for-pay scandal, among other things.

I’m sure The Ring still owns the rights to its hall of fame. It should revive it, catch up on all the lost years.

But it died. Someone else came along and created something … someone who had nothing to do with The Ring or the previous HoF … someone who has no way to reckon exactly how some boxers (and others) were selected for that hall because they had nothing to do with it.

Every Hall of Fame has its own selection criteria. The current IBHoF has its own, and should induct based on those.

I don’t see why anyone, anywhere, for all time, who ever starts a boxing hall of fame should be bound to recognize those inducted into a previous hall. To me, that doesn’t make sense.

That Turki guy just bought The Ring. He probably has enough $1,000 bills lost in his couch cushions to revive that HoF, build a shrine to it, fly every living member over first class and hold a feast to honor them. So he should do that. Let the IBHoF do its own thing.

 

I don’t think The Ring’s HoF is on the level of Cooperstown or Canton. If it was, it would still be around.

But let’s say Canton went out of business, caput, and no one bought the rights to it. Along comes someone to start a new pro football hall of fame and they decide not to induct OJ Simpson. Would there be debate and discussion about it? For sure. Would the world end or people consider the new hall illegitimate because of it? I doubt it.

The 13 guys in the Ring hall who aren’t (yet) in the IBHoF should be inducted into the current one on their own merits, not because they somehow got into a previous hall without meeting the criteria of the current one.