The International Boxing Hall of Fame and Museum in Canastota, New York , which will be celebrating its 35th Anniversary, has announced the latest class of inductees to be honoured during the Hall of Fame Induction Weekend on June 6-9, 2024.
There are currently only two South Africans in the Hall, Brian Mitchell and Stan Christodoulou.
However, two other South African fighters, Vuyani Bungu, who made 13 defences of his IBF junior featherweight title and also won the IBO featherweight title, together with Vic Toweel, who won the Universal world bantamweight title on 31 May 1950 and is the only South African fighter to have held a universal title when there were eight weight divisions and no other organisation tiles, should also be in the Hall of Fame.
The Class of 2024 includes Ricky “The Hitman” Hatton, Michael “Double M” Moorer, Ivan “Iron Boy” Calderon, and Diego “Chico” Corrales (posthumous) in the men’s Modern category; Jane “The Fleetwood Assassin” Couch and “La Guerrera” Ana Maria Torres in the Women’s modern category; trainer Kenny Adams, manager Jackie Kallen and publicist Fred Sternburg in the Non-Participant category; journalist Wallace Matthews and broadcaster Nick Charles (posthumous) in the Observer category; Luis Angel Firpo (posthumous) in the Old Timer category and Theresa Kibby (posthumous) in the women’s Trailblazer category.