Its about time!

[JAB5239]

Danny Lopez leads boxing Hall of Fame inductees
6/11/2010, 12:24 p.m. EDT
JOHN KEKIS
The Associated Press

(AP) — CANASTOTA, N.Y. - Danny "Little Red" Lopez heads the 13-member class to be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

Among the other living inductees voted in by the Boxing Writers Association are: light flyweight champ Jung-Koo Chang, the first South Korean boxer to make the Hall of Fame; manager Shelly Finkel; referee and commissioner Larry Hazzard; German promoter Wilfried Sauerland; matchmaker Bruce Trampler; and Ed Schuyler Jr., the longtime boxing writer for The Associated Press.

Posthumous honorees to be enshrined Sunday include: light heavyweight Lloyd Marshall; featherweight champion Young Corbett II; lightweight champion Rocky Kansas; heavyweight contender Billy Miske; broadcaster Howard Cosell; and Paddington Tom Jones.

[Miburo]

Danny Lopez? Seriously? What are these voters thinking - the same guys who took until a couple years ago to elect Larry Holmes are putting a (by hall of fame standards) mediocre champion like Little Red into the Hall? They're judging more on sentimentality than standards - if there are no good candidates in a year, then they shouldn't elect anyone, just like Cooperstown

As much as I like Chacon, I thought he should be the standard for a borderline hall of fame case, and I don't think there's much controversy that he left a much better legacy than Lopez (beat the hell out of him for one).

[JAB5239]

Danny Lopez? Seriously? What are these voters thinking - the same guys who took until a couple years ago to elect Larry Holmes are putting a (by hall of fame standards) mediocre champion like Little Red into the Hall? They're judging more on sentimentality more than standards - if there are no good candidates in a year, then they shouldn't elect anyone, just like Cooperstown

As much as I like Chacon, I thought he should be the standard for a borderline hall of fame case, and I don't think there's much controversy that he left a much better legacy than Lopez (beat the hell out of him for one).

He's borderline, but I think he deserves it. His resume of wins is pretty good, but more than that he brought excitement to the lower divisions in the mid to late 70's. He was Arturo Gatti before Gatti, only with better wins.

[Miburo]

He's borderline, but I think he deserves it. His resume of wins is pretty good, but more than that he brought excitement to the lower divisions in the mid to late 70's. He was Arturo Gatti before Gatti, only with better wins.

I don't know, this seems like it's opening the door to just every old champion getting elected. A guy like Chacon who sacrificed everything to make it back to the top with some huge wins deserves it - a guy like Lopez who simply retired at 28 after losing his sole title (defended against relatively weak opposition) does not. Incidentally, Gatti doesn't deserve it either - Chacon is the hall of fame version of the Gatti-type fighter. It also doesn't change the fact that the standards they're using for election are entirely inconsistent.

[1SILVA]

I don't know, this seems like it's opening the door to just every old champion getting elected. A guy like Chacon who sacrificed everything to make it back to the top with some huge wins deserves it - a guy like Lopez who simply retired at 28 after losing his sole title (defended against relatively weak opposition) does not. Incidentally, Gatti doesn't deserve it either - Chacon is the hall of fame version of the Gatti-type fighter. It also doesn't change the fact that the standards they're using for election are entirely inconsistent.

I'm upset that it took so long for Chang and Cosell to be inducted.

[NChristo]

I'm upset that it took so long for Chang and Cosell to be inducted.

Same, and Lloyd Marshall. Happy they're all in though, finally.

[prinzemanspopa]

There is hope for Prince Naseem Hamed afterall!

[QueensburyRules]

Danny Lopez? Seriously? What are these voters thinking - the same guys who took until a couple years ago to elect Larry Holmes are putting a (by hall of fame standards) mediocre champion like Little Red into the Hall? They're judging more on sentimentality than standards - if there are no good candidates in a year, then they shouldn't elect anyone, just like Cooperstown

As much as I like Chacon, I thought he should be the standard for a borderline hall of fame case, and I don't think there's much controversy that he left a much better legacy than Lopez (beat the hell out of him for one).

- - Too bad U wasn't around to see Tubby Lar 0-6, 0 KO record vs standing champs winning their titles in the ring. 0-13, 0 KO if we count all the other WBA champs he ducked.

Danny trumps Lar easy. Won his belt in deepest Africa against David Kotey who won his belt off HOFer Rueben Olivares. Whooped him in front of uncountable tens of thousands Africans.

Compare to Lar who punked it vs Gerrie Coatzee for a record purse. Instead Big John Tate manned up to the moment to relieve Gerrie of his WBA belt.

[QueensburyRules]

There is hope for Prince Naseem Hamed afterall!

- - Prince in like Flint...Big Dummy too!

[Willie Pep 229]

- - Prince in like Flint...Big Dummy too!

Agreed

It is after all called the Hall of Fame, not the hall of superior statistics.

Sometimes a fighter can do much for the fight game but never post the big wins or numbers. E.g. Ray Mancini.

Try looking up Alberto Arizmendi.