On Tuesday, the Worldwide Boxing Corridor of Fame introduced the inductees for the 2022 class and it’s loaded with some massive names. Headlining the category are Roy Jones Jr., Miguel Cotto and James Toney on the boys’s aspect, with Holly Holm and Regina Halmich for the ladies. The category shall be inducted alongside the 2021 and 2020 lessons, which have each seen their ceremonies delayed in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Corridor of Fame nominees are voted on by members of the Boxing Writers Affiliation of America in addition to a panel of boxing historians. The induction ceremony is held on the Corridor of Fame museum in Canastota, New York.
Let’s take a fast take a look at the largest names within the 2022 class.
Roy Jones Jr.
Voted Fighter of the Decade for the Nineties by the Boxing Writers Affiliation of America, Jones gained world championships in 4 weight lessons whereas spending a big portion of his profession as the highest pound-for-pound fighter within the sport. Jones’ first championship victory got here in Might 1993, capturing the IBF middleweight title with a win over Bernard Hopkins. In November 1994, Jones moved as much as tremendous middleweight to win the IBF title towards James Toney. Jones additionally was a unified champion at gentle heavyweight and solely misplaced one struggle in his first 50 contests, that being a disqualification loss towards Montell Griffin that Jones avenged in much less that one spherical within the rematch. Amazingly, Jones additionally went as much as heavyweight, the place he defeated John Ruiz to turn into WBA champion. Jones holds a profession document of 66-9 with 47 wins by knockout.
Miguel Cotto
Cotto held titles throughout 4 weight lessons in his profession and fought in a few of the largest and most essential fights of his period. Cotto gained the WBO junior welterweight title in 2004, efficiently defending the title six instances earlier than shifting to welterweight to win the WBA belt in 2006. He would defend that title towards the likes of Zab Judah and Shane Mosley earlier than dropping the belt to Antonio Margarito in a bloody battle that many query after Margarito was discovered to have illegally loaded his hand wraps towards Mosley. Cotto would finally win titles at junior middleweight and middleweight. In his profession, he fought enormous bouts towards different massive names together with Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
James Toney
Toney gained championships in three weight lessons, together with middleweight, tremendous middleweight and cruiserweight. Toney went undefeated within the first 46 fights of his profession. That included six defenses of the IBF middleweight championship and three defenses of the IBF tremendous middleweight championship. After dropping the tremendous middleweight title in 1994, Toney wouldn’t maintain one other world title till 2003 when he pulled off an enormous win over Vassiliy Jirov in 2003. Toney would go on to make two bids for heavyweight championships, drawing with Hasim Rahman after defeating John Ruiz, a victory that was overturned after Toney failed a drug check.
Holly Holm
Whereas Holm might have discovered extra mainstream consideration within the UFC, the place she gained the ladies’s bantamweight championship from Ronda Rousey in a now-iconic upset, she first used her fistic skills within the boxing ring. Holm gained championships at junior welterweight, welterweight and junior middleweight. She defended her championships 18 instances and solely misplaced one struggle as soon as she had reached the championship stage. That loss was a brutal knockout by the hands of Anne Sophie Mathis in 2011, although Holm avenged the loss of their rematch, preventing solely two extra instances after earlier than transitioning to combined martial arts.
Regina Halmich
Halmich transitioned from a profitable kickboxing profession to the boxing ring in 1994. In her ninth struggle, she misplaced for the one time in her profession, failing to win the IBF feminine flyweight title towards Yvonne Trevino. She would win the belt in her subsequent outing, occurring to efficiently defend the belt 15 instances. Throughout her reign with the flyweight title, Halmich additionally added the tremendous flyweight title and junior flyweight title. She would efficiently defend titles a shocking 40 instances in her profession and retired on a 46-fight unbeaten streak.
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