HOF hold overs. Who gets in?

The Class of 2019 should be an excellent opportunity for some of those already on the ballot to be inducted.

Boxers active no later than 2013 will be eligible for the first time - but are there any really outstanding fighters, who retired that year? I struggle to think of obvious candidates, that should be added to the list, and who would be certain to get in. The best I can come up with is Pongsaklek Wonjongkam and Chris John... or am I overlooking someone?

If I were to pick 3 from the old list, it would probably be Curry, Jackson and Laciar.

 

None of them are slam dunks, otherwise they would have been in years ago.

Who are the 1st time ballot people?

I think the next class will be a weaker one. We'll see.

 

For some reason Wonjongkam had a fight this year.

Looking through boxrec some higher ranking one that retired in 2013 are:
Cory Spinks
Joichiro Tatsuyoshi
Rafael Marquez
Nobuo Nashiro

 

Kessler, Rafael Marquez, and Chris John are the "big names" with really the only chance, that I've read.

 

Thanks - I wasn't aware of that.

 

I would vote for Jackson, Curry, and either Michaczewski or Arbachakov

 

Julian Jackson, Donald Curry, and Yuri Arbachakov for me.

 

McCallum should be voted in instead of Curry and Jackson because he knocked both of them out.

 

On merit, yes as he had a lot of title defenses at featherweight. However he has three problems.

1 ) He's a modern featherweight.
2 ) He was boring
3 ) I'm not sure how familiar the mostly western hall of fame voters are with him

 

McCallum was inducted over 10 years ago.

 

I was responding to another reply from someone that mentioned McCallum on this thread, but I still feel those losses to him suffered by Curry and Jackson should count against them because he was the best fighter they faced.