Bradley is among 10 added to Boxing Hall
Timothy Bradley Jr. remembers being in England on the night before his first title fight when his wife spoke to him in a tone more concerning than usual.
“I knew something was up, and she said: ‘We only have 11 dollars in our bank account. I spent our last 300 to get here. You must win,’ ” recalled Bradley, who was raised near Palm Springs.
He did, a moment that gave Bradley the motivation that guided him the rest of his career and all the way to the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
The 39-year-old former two-division champion was part of a 10-member class enshrined Sunday in a ceremony at the Turning Stone Resort Casino. Carl Froch ,a four-time super middleweight titlist, had a message similar to Bradley’s in saying that talent alone wasn’t what got him into the museum in Canastota, N.Y.
“I didn’t win them all, but what I never did was quit,” Froch said.
Mexico’s Rafael Marquez, like Bradley a two-division champion, also was enshrined.
Laura Serrano, Mexico’s first female boxing champion and the first women’s boxing Hall of Famer, and
Alicia Ashley, a Jamaican who became the oldest woman to win a title at 48 and boxed until she was 50, were inducted from the women’s modern category.
Brad Goodman, Top Rank’s matchmaker for nearly four decades, and
Brad Jacobs, the promotional company’s chief operating officer since 2010, were selected in the nonparticipant category along with longtime trainer and broadcaster Joe Goossen.
Tim Ryan, a longtime CBS lead boxing announcer, was chosen in the observer category. He was joined by
Seth Abraham, the executive who oversaw HBO’s growth into a boxing broadcasting power.
Tiger Jack Fox, Pone Kingpetch and women’s trailblazer JoAnn Hagen were inducted posthumously.