The International Boxing Hall of Fame has announced the Class of 2019, which consists of four former boxers and five non-combatants.
The new members are:
Teddy Atlas. Atlas was a trainer and commentator and is known for taking Michael Moorer and Alexander Povetkin to the Heavyweight Championship.
Donald Curry (Modern Era). Curry was the undisputed Welterweight Champion in 1985 by unifying the titles with his defeat of Milton McCrory and he would later become the WBC Super Middleweight Champion. Curry retired with a 34-6 record with 25 KOs.
Tony DeMarco (Old Timers). DeMarco would become the Welterweight Champion in 1955 but the native of Boston is best known for his two brutal battles afterwards with Carmen Basillio.
Don Elbaum. Elbaum was a former manager/promoter/matchmaker from Erie who was the “teacher” of Don King.
Julian Jackson. Jackson won the WBA Super Welterweight Championship in 1987 and held it until he forfeited the title to move up to Middleweight. Jackson won the WBC Middleweight Title twice. He retired with a record of 5506 with 49 KOs.
Guy Jutras. Jutras was a long time official in boxing.
Buddy McGirt. McGirt was the IBF Junior Welterweight Champion in 1988 and would later be the WBC and Lineal Welterweight Champion. He would later become a successful trainer.
Mario Rivera Martino. Martino served Puerto Rican boxing as a writer and later as a commissioner.
Lee Samuels. Samuels worked as a publicist for Top Rank.
The induction ceremony will take place next June.
We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate the International Boxing Hall of Fame Class of 2019.
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