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'Little Red' Lopez heads 2010 class for Boxing Hall
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December 10, 2009, Thursday
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FORMER featherweight champion Danny "Little Red" Lopez and light flyweight champ Jung-Koo Chang were voted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame along with 11 others on Tuesday.
Among the other living inductees to be enshrined on June 13 are manager Shelly Finkel, referee and commissioner Larry Hazzard; German promoter Wilfried Sauerland, matchmaker Bruce Trampler and longtime Associated Press boxing writer Ed Schuyler Jr.
Posthumous honorees elected by the Boxing Writers Association included light heavyweight Lloyd Marshall, featherweight champion Young Corbett II, lightweight champion Rocky Kansas, heavyweight contender Billy Miske, pioneer Paddington Tom Jones and broadcaster Howard Cosell.
In a 10-year professional featherweight career, Lopez went 42-6 with 39 knockouts.
"I'm real happy and I feel pretty good," said the 57-year-old Lopez, who followed his brother Ernie into the ring, learning the sweet science in Utah at the age of 16 before turning pro in 1971 and beginning his career with 21 straight knockouts.
Lopez challenged Davey Kotey in 1976 for the WBC featherweight championship in Kotey's homeland of Ghana. In front of 122,000 fans, Lopez, spurred by fans from the American embassy, won the title on a 15-round decision.
A string of eight successful title defenses followed, including a sixth-round knockout of Kotey and a 15th-round KO of Mike Ayala in 1979.
Lopez's title run ended in 1980 when Salvador Sanchez knocked him out in the 13th round. After Sanchez knocked him out again in their rematch, Lopez retired, though he fought one more time.
Chang, the first South Korean to be inducted into the hall, turned pro at 17 in 1980 without having fought as an amateur, and won his first 18 bouts. In 1982, he lost for the first time on a split decision in a challenge for Hilario Zapata's WBC light flyweight title, but won the rematch three months later with a third-round TKO.
Chang's five-year reign included a then division record of 15 successful defenses until 1988. He retired in 1991 with a 38-4 (17 KOs) record.
Marshall (64-25-4, 32 KOs) fought from 1937-51, defeated nine world champions. Corbett (68-22-16, 47 KOs) fought at the turn of the 20th century, taking Terry McGovern's world featherweight title with a third-round knockout, winning the rematch by knockout in the 11th, and going six rounds for a no decision in their third fight.
Among the other living inductees to be enshrined on June 13 are manager Shelly Finkel, referee and commissioner Larry Hazzard; German promoter Wilfried Sauerland, matchmaker Bruce Trampler and longtime Associated Press boxing writer Ed Schuyler Jr.
Posthumous honorees elected by the Boxing Writers Association included light heavyweight Lloyd Marshall, featherweight champion Young Corbett II, lightweight champion Rocky Kansas, heavyweight contender Billy Miske, pioneer Paddington Tom Jones and broadcaster Howard Cosell.
In a 10-year professional featherweight career, Lopez went 42-6 with 39 knockouts.
"I'm real happy and I feel pretty good," said the 57-year-old Lopez, who followed his brother Ernie into the ring, learning the sweet science in Utah at the age of 16 before turning pro in 1971 and beginning his career with 21 straight knockouts.
Lopez challenged Davey Kotey in 1976 for the WBC featherweight championship in Kotey's homeland of Ghana. In front of 122,000 fans, Lopez, spurred by fans from the American embassy, won the title on a 15-round decision.
A string of eight successful title defenses followed, including a sixth-round knockout of Kotey and a 15th-round KO of Mike Ayala in 1979.
Lopez's title run ended in 1980 when Salvador Sanchez knocked him out in the 13th round. After Sanchez knocked him out again in their rematch, Lopez retired, though he fought one more time.
Chang, the first South Korean to be inducted into the hall, turned pro at 17 in 1980 without having fought as an amateur, and won his first 18 bouts. In 1982, he lost for the first time on a split decision in a challenge for Hilario Zapata's WBC light flyweight title, but won the rematch three months later with a third-round TKO.
Chang's five-year reign included a then division record of 15 successful defenses until 1988. He retired in 1991 with a 38-4 (17 KOs) record.
Marshall (64-25-4, 32 KOs) fought from 1937-51, defeated nine world champions. Corbett (68-22-16, 47 KOs) fought at the turn of the 20th century, taking Terry McGovern's world featherweight title with a third-round knockout, winning the rematch by knockout in the 11th, and going six rounds for a no decision in their third fight.
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