East sides letter to the IBHOF

But then if Jess Willard is in there...

 

Here's a list of all the Boxers listed this year in both the Modern and Oldtimers Division:


MODERN: You can vote for as many as 10, BUT only 3 will be elected.



New Nominees:
Santos Laciar
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Danny "Little Red" Lopez
Sven Ottke

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Return Nominees

Horacio Acavallo
Georgie Abrams
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Joey Archer
Jose Becerra
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Johnny Bratton
Jimmy Carruthers
Jung Koo Chang

Donald Curry
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Hiroyuki Ebihara
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Tommy Farr
Tiger Jack Fox
Ceferino Garcia

Betulio Gonzalez
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Yoko Gushiken
Naseem Hamed
Carlos Hernandez
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Harry Jeffra
Rafael Herrera
Al Hostak
Peter Kane
Cocoa Kid
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Pone Kingpetch
Tippy Larkin
Jose Legra
Miguel Lora
Raul Macias
Ernesto Marcel
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Lloyd Marshall
Freddie Mills
Rinty Monaghan
Masao Ohba
Ken Overlin
Gustave Roth
Lou Salica
Dave Sands
Petey Scalzo
Samuel Serrano
Yoshio Shirai
Kid Tunero

Wilfredo Vazquez
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Myung Woo Yuh
Hilario Zapata




Old-Timers List: You can vote for as many as 10, BUT only 3 will be elected.

Joe Bowker
Jimmy Britt
Jackie Brown
Newsboy Brown
Johnny Buff
Frankie Burns
Eddie Campi
George (K.O.) Chaney
George Chip
Jimmy Clabby
Young Corbett II
Leach Cross
Frank Erne
Harry Forbes
Tommy Freeman
Larry Gains
George Gardner
Jimmy Gardner
Mike Glover
Dave Holly
Leo Houck
Young Peter Jackson
Rocky Kansas
Joe Knight
Charles Ledoux
Tancy Lee
Willie Lewis
George (Elbows) McFadden
Eddie McGoorty
Jock Malone
(Cannonball) Eddie Martin
Billy Miske
Young Mitchell
Memphis Pal Moore
Tod Morgan
Mike O'Dowd
Thomas (Pedlar) Palmer
Emile (Spider) Pladner
Wesley Ramey
Jack Root
Petey Sarron
Dave Shade
Harry Smith
Jeff Smith
Mike (Twin) Sullivan
Sid Terris
Young Jack Thompson
Carl Tremaine
Charlie White
Jack (Kid) Wolfe​

 

I would not have voted for Willard myself and I don't agree with several that have been voted into the Hall of Fame. I just think that the Heavyweights get more consideration then others.

 

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I know you can choose ten, but cutting it down to three I would've gone for:

Lloyd Marshall
Tippy Larkin
Joey Archer

Of those listed, anyway. And for old timers:

Petey Sarron
Newsboy Brown
Dave Holly

If Larkin & Sarron got in, that'd mean Henry Armstrong beat twelve Hall of Famers. That'd put a smile on my face.

 

It's for technical and argumental purposes. I know how good Larkin & Sarron were. But if they were Hall of Famers, to the unknowing, it elevates them to a certain status. One day I hope to shove twelve in their face. As for now, ten will do, with Larkin & Sarron under the sidenotes section.

 

He'd be in my Hall of Fame.
He was a great character and his antics made good newspaper copy, an interesting fighter, well over 100 professional fights, fought for the heavyweight championship of the world and he is relatively famous.

It is the Hall of Fame, after all, not the "Hall of Greatness"

 

You had a little peek inside that thread though !

 

Galento was beaten by a good friend of mine, Paul Cavaliere. Paul won every round of that bout at MSG. Galento isn't even on the ballot.

Yes I did. I saw Janitors name as the last poster and I opened it up. I respect Janitor so I read the posts that people put in before him and found it very interesting BUT I didn't post myself. I found this Thread and felt like I should answer those questions here instead.

 

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. Take a look at his last three bouts over the first three months of 1944 -desperate and up against a medical clock due to his eyes, he staged a golden blitz -asserting dominance over a prime Archie Moore and evening up the score with master-boxer Holman Williams.

In '42, he was a serious underdog when he met Lloyd Marshall -and handled him.

 

Black Dynamite, Eddie Booker. His name was brought up by a few people that vote and they asked me what I thought. I told them that he has some very good wins, Moore, Holman, Matthews, etc. He does have a better resume then some of boxers that were elected into the Hall. Right now he is not even listed on the ballot.
The down side is that he was rated for only 21 months, in the Welterweight, Middleweight and Light Heavyweight Divisions, from April 1939 to February 1945, and his highest rating was #2. Very few #2 rated boxers have ever been elected into the Hall of Fame. In fact, besides from being recognize one of the World Champions, only 1 Modern boxer has made the Hall of Fame with their highest ratings being #2 and that was Laszlo Papp.
Believe me, it is not that easy to pick 10 from the list that I posted, in either category. Some had better resumes BUT were beaten by others on the list. It took me weeks to come up with 10 in each category. The Old-Timers division took me the longest.

 

Cocoa Kid, Lloyd Marshall and Eddie Booker IMO shuld be in