CANASTOTA, N.Y. (AP) — Danny “Little Red” Lopez heads the 13-member class to be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Among the other living inductees voted in by the Boxing Writers Association are: light flyweight champ Jung-Koo Chang, the first South Korean boxer to make the Hall of Fame; manager Shelly Finkel; referee and commissioner Larry Hazzard; German promoter Wilfried Sauerland; matchmaker Bruce Trampler; and Ed Schuyler Jr., the longtime boxing writer for The Associated Press.
Posthumous honorees to be enshrined Sunday include: light heavyweight Lloyd Marshall; featherweight champion Young Corbett II; lightweight champion Rocky Kansas; heavyweight contender Billy Miske; broadcaster Howard Cosell; and Paddington Tom Jones.