Los Angeles Times

Bradley is among 10 added to Boxing Hall

- staff and wire reports

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.

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