{"id":69167,"date":"2016-05-28T13:07:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T17:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=69167"},"modified":"2016-05-27T20:12:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T00:12:10","slug":"class-of-2016s-day-in-the-sun-nearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=69167","title":{"rendered":"Class of 2016’s Day In The Sun Nearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"unnamed<\/a>Official Induction Ceremony Set For Sunday, June 12<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

(Canastota)\u00a0For boxers Lupe Pintor and Hilario Zapata, judgeHarold Lederman, commissioner Marc Ratner, journalist Jerry Izenberg and broadcasterCol. Bob Sheridan, their day in the sun is rapidly approaching. On Sunday, June 12,<\/span>\u00a0they will join boxing’s immortals when they are officially inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are eagerly anticipating paying tribute to the incredible accomplishments of the members of the Class of 2016,\u201d said Hall of Fame Executive Director Edward Brophy. \u201cWe look forward to welcoming them to Canastota to take their place in the Hall of Fame.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is so exciting to think that the new inductees will be boarding airplanes less than two weeks from now<\/span> to make the trek to Canastota to receive boxing\u2019s highest honor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mexico\u2019s Pintor was bantamweight and super bantamweight world champion, Panama\u2019s Zapata was light flyweight and flyweight champion, Lederman was a 30-year boxing judge and is HBO\u2019s \u201cunofficial\u201d judge, Ratner was the highly respected executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, journalist Izenberg has covered the sport of boxing for over 50 years and broadcaster Sheridan has traveled the globe calling action from ringside for nearly 50 years. Each living inductee will receive a Hall of Fame Induction Certificate and gold Hall of Fame Ring.<\/p>\n

The Class of 2016 also includes posthumous honorees multi-division world championHector \u201cMacho\u201d Camacho in the Modern category; featherweight champion Petey Sarronin the Old-Timer Category; and trainer Whitey Esneault in the Non Participant Category. Inductees were voted in by members of the Boxing Writers Association and a panel of international boxing historians.<\/p>\n

A plaque with each inductee\u2019s biography and photo will be on permanent display on the Hall of Fame Wall. The Official Enshrinement Ceremony will be held on the Hall of Fame Museum Grounds in Canastota\u00a0Sunday, June 12, at 2:30 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n

An impressive list of more than 40 boxing greats from the United States and abroad are scheduled to participate in weekend festivities June 9 through 12<\/span>\u00a0including Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Pernell Whitaker, Pipino Cuevas, Michael Spinks, Leon Spinks, \u201cIrish\u201d Micky Ward, Andrew Golota, Christy Martin, Gerry Cooney and many more.<\/p>\n

For more information on the 2016 Hall of Fame Induction Weekend, please call the Hall of Fame at (315) 697-7095<\/a>, visit online at www.ibhof.com<\/a>, on Facebook at www.facebook.com\/InternationalBoxingHallofFame<\/a> and on Twitter at www.twitter.com\/BoxingHall<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Official Induction Ceremony Set For Sunday, June 12 (Canastota)\u00a0For boxers Lupe Pintor and Hilario Zapata, judgeHarold Lederman, commissioner Marc Ratner, journalist Jerry Izenberg and broadcasterCol. Bob Sheridan, their day in the sun is rapidly approaching. On Sunday, June 12,\u00a0they will join boxing’s immortals when they are officially inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[94,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-hZB","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/unnamed-5-1.jpg?fit=475%2C435&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}