We opened the meeting on a sad note as President Jack Hirsch lost his Father-In-Law this morning and was unable to attend. Vice President Henry Hascup presided over the meeting. We also morn the deaths of Bill and Mary Tate’s daughter Denise and Melvina Lathan’s younger sister. John Holden gave the toll count in the celebration of the lives they gave all their Loved ones.

Steve Weisfeld and Johnny Turner were the guest speakers and they did Outstanding.

(All Pictures taken by Stan Janousek, professional fight name Stanley Yanachek)

Ring 8 will have their next meeting on Tuesday night April 18th, starting at 7 p.m. ET, at O’Neill’s Restaurant, located at 64-21 53rd Drive in Maspeth, New York.

Guest Speakers will be Boxing Judge Steve Weisfeld and former Welterweight contender Johnny Turner.

Steve Weisfeld is a lawyer, and a boxing judge. He is a partner at Beattie Padovano, a general practice law firm of approximately 30 attorneys in Montvale, New Jersey. He has been a professional boxing judge since 1991, and spent two of those years as a commentator with HBO. He has officially judged approximately 1,750 professional bouts including 80 world championships. Steve is recognized as one of the top boxing judges in the sport today.

Johnny Turner fought as a professional from 1975 to 1984. He fought such standouts as Frankie & Wilfred Benitez, Pat Hallacy and Larry Stanton. He finished with a career record of 42-6-2 with 32 KO’s. He also played along side of Robert DeNiro in the academy award winning picture “Raging Bull,” when he played the French fighter Laurent Dauthuille. However, after instinctively throwing a left hook to the body that dropped De Niro in a heap, Turner thought his movie career was over before it even began.