Former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe and former lightweight title holder Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini highlight the 2015 International Boxing Hall of Fame's 2015 induction class.
This past weekend's International Boxing Hall of Fame weekend always brings some of the biggest names in the fight game to Canastota, NY for an array of festivities including the annual fist casting, induction ceremonies and the Parade of Champions.
Academy Award and Emmy nominee Rosie Perez will be the Grand Marshal for the 24th annual Boxing Hall of Fame Parade of Champions.
The parade takes place on Sunday, June 9th in Canastota prior to the induction ceremony.
Perez has appeared in movies including "Do The Right Thing" and "White Men Can't Jump...
Arturo 'Thunder' Gatti, Virgil 'Quicksilver' Hill and referee Mills Lane headline the 2013 induction class for the International Boxing Hall of Fame and Museum in Canastota, the hall announced Monday.
Canastota, NY (WIBX) - The boxing world lost one of its toughest fighters on Wednesday morning as Carmen Basilio passed this morning at Rochester General Hospital, according to the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Basilio, who was born in Canastota - home of the IBHOF - was a a two-time world welterweight champion and won the world middleweight title, as well...
It was another exciting induction weekend at the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota with the likes of Tommy 'The Hitman' Hearns, Michael Buffer, Freddie Roach and Mark 'Too Sharp' Johnson.