2018 New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame Inductees

Posted on September 24, 2018 by Henry Hascup

As the President of the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame I am proud to announce that on Thursday evening, November 8, 2018, the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame will hold its 49th Annual Dinner and Induction Ceremonies at the beautiful Venetian, located at 546 River Drive, Garfield, New Jersey starting at 6:45 P.M. Tickets are priced at ONLY $90 ($95 for the use of a Credit Card) per person. Fourteen (14) of Boxing’s finest will be inducted in the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame, and they are as follows:

Mustafa Ameen – Worked with many World Champions such as Muhammad Ali, Vladimir Klitschko and Vtali Klitschko and was the longtime Business Manager for Matthew Saad Muhammad.

Charles Boston – Rated as high as #5 by the WBA with wins over Dwight Davison and Errol Christie. He also fought Herol Graham and World Champions Doug DeWitt and Michael Nunn.

Michael Covington – Former Amateur Champion who went on to win his first 22 fights as a professional, beating Eric Mitchell and Larry Marks on the way.

Lenny DeJesus – has been a corner man for just about 40 years. As a cut man and a trainer, Lenny has worked the corner with the likes of Angelo Dundee, Eddie Futch, Al Gavin, and Carlos Ortiz, just to name a few of the greats. Among some of the fighters DeJesus has worked with are Roberto Duran, Hector Camacho, Wilfredo Gomez, Wilfredo Benitez and, most recently Joel Casamayor and Manny Pacquiao.

Harvey Dock – He has worked eighteen world title fights and fourteen minor title fights. His first world title fight was in November of 2007 in Atlantic City with WBO champion Joan Guzman and Humberto Soto. Among the others he refereed are Errol Spence Jr and Lamont Peterson; Carl Frampton and Leo Santa Cruz; Daniel Jaconbs and Peter Quillin.

Calvin Grove – Former IBF Featherweight Champion who fought 32 times in New Jersey. He scored wins over Antonio Rivera, Myron Taylor, Julian Solis, Regilio Tuur, Troy Dorsey and Jeff Fenech

Kendall Holt – Former WBO World super lightweight title who won the title with a sensational 1st round knockout over Ricardo Torres after being dropped twice himself, all this happened in 61 seconds. He also beat Demetrius Hopkins and lost a split decision to Danny Garcia and also fought Timothy Bradley and Lamont Peterson.

Alan Rubenstein – Boxing Judge – Eight (8) time winner of the Boxing Judge of the Year “Salute to Philly Boxers”. He has been a professional judge since the early 1990’s working mainly in Philadelphia, New York and New Jersey.

Lee Samuels – Top Rank/Publicist Lee joined Bob Arum’s Top Rank which was launching a Thursday Night ESPN weekly series. Lee has worked with many world champions and contenders at all levels of the sport for 35 years at Top Rank. The journey has taken Lee around the world on media tours and events. He presently works as a coordinator for Top Rank. Lee’s awards include 2006 – BWAA Good Guy Award, 2012 – WBC Legends Award, 2013 – BWAA Long and Meritorious Service, 2014 – Salem County, N.J. Sports Hall of Fame and the 2016 – BWAA Courage Award

Aaron Snowell – Hall of Fame Trainer of Champions – is the current World Boxing Council (WBC) Official Ambassador. He has trained over 30 WORLD CHAMPIONS in his 30-year career from bantamweight to heavyweight, including Mike Tyson. And he is on record as the youngest trainer to train a heavyweight champion. He also trained Rickey Parkey, who delivered one of the fastest knockout in history: within 8 seconds of the first round 1987. He was recently inducted into the National Boxing Hall of Fame.

Kevin Watts – Former USBA/NABF middleweight champion who holds wins over James “Hard Rock” Green, Dwight Walker, Tony Thornton, Dwight Davison, John Scully, Shawn O’Sullivan and Tyrone Frazier. He also lost a close decision to Frank Tate and lost to Michael Nunn and Steve Collins.

POSTHUMOUSLY

Tommy Dundee – Former Bantamweight who fought throughout the 1920’s, beating such standouts as Young Joe Firpo, Battling Al Murray and Marty Gold.

Frankie Leta – Former Lightweight who fought and beat some of the best including Freddie Russo who ONLY lost twice in his previous 59 fights. He scored wins over Harold Valan and twice against Clint Miller and he also fought Allie Stolz.

Joseph Rinaldi – Founder of The USA Boxing News which has become a full-scale sports newspaper circulated on newsstands in 48 states, 4 continents, and 10 countries, along with being distributed in all of the U.S. Armed Forces bases throughout the world.

Also, the NEW JERSEY BOXING HALL OF FAME will be honoring our Senior Amateur Boxer of the Year, Khalil Coe, who is among the Countries top Amateurs, Junior Olympic Amateur, Zahir Salaam, who has won several titles, Vito Mielnicki, the National Youth Champion and our Pro Boxer of the Year, Thomas “Cornflake” LaManna, 26-2-1 and is moving up the Welterweight ladder, as well as the Amateur Official, Rodney Price, who was inducted into the NJ Boxing Hall of Fame in 2016 and is now one of our top Amateur Officials & Coach of the Year, Ahman Elliott, who has trained several Amateur Champions the last few years Plus our “2018 Man of the Year”, Randy Neumann, who was the New Jersey State Heavyweight Champion and a World rated Heavyweight back in the 1970’s with wins over Chuck Wepner and Jimmy Young and fought Jerry Quarry. Randy also refereed over 50 World title fights and is now with the IBF.

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