President Bob Duffy opened the meeting and Carmine, who just turned 90 years old, led everyone in the National Anthem. We then had a 10 count in memory of several Ring 8 members that passed away recently.

Paulette Balog gave a report on all the sick Ring 8 members including Emile Griffith, Charlie Noel and Bill Tate, who attended the meeting. Emile’s son Louie spoke on his father’s health.

President Duffy reported that the Hall of Fame for Boxing will be having a press conference next Tuesday at Gallagher’s in New York at 12:30 PM. At that time, they will be announcing the 1st Class of the Hall of Fame.

President Duffy stated that on December 9th, Ring 8 will be helping out with the Metro’s in New York.

President Duffy talked on our Holiday Awards Ceremony, which will be on Sunday, December 18th at Russo’s on the Bay. He then announced all the honorees.

Emanuel Steward – Trainer of the Decade, Frank Pena –Longevity Service to Amateur Boxing, Keith Sullivan – Ring 8 Member of the Year, Henry Hascup – Ring 8 Boxing Historian, Jill Diamond – Humanitarian Award, Ralph Petrillo – Official of the Year, Marcus Brown – Amateur Boxer of the Year, Delvin Rodriquez /Pawel Wolak – Fight of the Year, Michael DeLaRue – Uncrowned Champion, John Ruiz – 1st Hispanic Heavyweight Champion and Ed Kotite & Philip Pilevsky – Co-Managers of the Year.

Special Guests: Mark Breland, Vito Antuofermo, Juan LaPorte, Bobby Czyz, Amanda Serrano, Gabriel Bracero, Iran Barkley, Lonnie Bradley, Junior Jones, Kathy Collins and from the TV Show “The Contenders,” Tommy Gallagher, plus many more guest to be announced upon.

President Duffy stated that Ring Announcer David Diamante will introduce all the honorees and Steve Farhood would be the MC.

President Duffy talked on a Golden Glove Show that will be sponsored by Ring 8 on January 26th at the Plattduetsche Restaurant, Franklin Square, New York.

Tommy Gallagher talked on the up-coming fight for Gabriel Bracero.

Ron Ross, who wrote books on Bummy Davis and Emile Griffith, spoke on Emile and praised his son Louie for standing by him. He stated that everytime Louie comes, Emile’s eye’s light up.

Christina Vila, who has been in and out of Afghanistan, fighting for our freedom, gave a short talk.

 

President Duffy introduced Lonnie Bradley, the former WBO Middleweight Champion. who’s career was cut short because of a detached retina. Lonnie gave a short talk.

Our Guest speaker, Will Evans, was introduced by Mr. McKay. Evans wrote a sceen play on Arturo Gatti and now there working on a full length movie. He gave a report on the investigation of the death of Gatti. He stated that everyone he ever met loved Arturo. He said that Arturo was murdered. Henry Hascup also talked on the press conference they had on this and brought up what 48 Hours found.

 

 

One of Arturo’s best friend’s Mike Sciara also talked on this as well. He said that Arturo was murdered and they have the proof. He also stated that they put out a 350 page report but they will also put out another report that is more then twice the size and this report will leave no doubt that he was murdered.

 

A Thank you note from Stan Janousek:

Thank you for including my good friend, Stanislav Bacik in the one minute silence for departed fighters. Stanislav Bacik was born in 1950 in former Communist Czechoslovakia. His life accomplishment besides achieving higher education included a long boxing amateur career, with over 200 amateur fights,  mostly wins. He won the Jr. Welterweight Championship of Czechoslovakia, won the Vaclav Prochazka Tournament in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia in 1975 and was a several times Jr. Welterweight and Welterweight champion of Slovakia. He was a member of Czechoslovak and Slovak national team, participating in numerous international boxing tournaments throughout Eastern Europe. On 9-21-2010, while visiting USA, Stanislav Bacik attended Ring8 Monthly Dinner Meeting, at which time he was made an honorary member of our association. Stanislav Bacik died unexpectedly due to heart complication on October 16, 2011 in his native town, Nitra, Slovakia. His funeral was held this afternoon, Wednesday, October 19, 2011, at 1:30PM in Nitra, Slovakia. Long lives his memory.

Here’s some pictues of Stanislav when he attended a Ring 8 meeting recently.

 

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