3-day boxing spectacular Oct. 2-4 at the Paris Las Vegas
- Nominations Jury releases names for global fan vote
- Voting to go live at www.greatestever.com
- Sugar Ray Robinson is nominated in two weight categories
The nominees for The World’s Greatest Ever Boxer global fan vote were announced today by Greatest Ever Enterprises.
On-line voting at www.GreatestEver.com will allow boxing fans from around the world
to select the greatest boxer in each of the original eight weight classes, Heavyweight, Light heavyweight, Middleweight, Welterweight, Lightweight, Bantamweight, Featherweight and Flyweight, highlighted by the all-time pound-for-pound “Greatest Ever”.
A nominations committee of boxing experts lead the debate and selection of the boxers. The announcement of the process was twice delayed as the jury debated the various merits of the fighters, their records and achievements. Categories were set at 10 nominees per division, with 12 being nominated for the blue-ribbon category of Heavyweight.
The nominations committee was comprised of Thomas Hauser (boxing journalist and award-winning Muhammad Ali biographer), Al Bernstein (broadcaster and boxing analyst), Colin Hart (UK’s leading boxing reporter), Jean-Philippe Lustyk (broadcaster and head of boxing for pan-European sports channel Eurosport) and Ron Borges (boxing journalist and Hall of Fame committee member).
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