General Meeting:

President Bob Duffy opened the meeting Flag salute and then we had a 10 count.

Paulette Balog gave a report on all the sick Ring 8 members including Emile Griffith, Charlie Noel, Bill Tate and Joe Dobbins. Paulette stated that if anyone wants help celebrate the birthdays of Bill Tate and Charlie Noel they can do so this Sunday at 2 PM. Just contact Paulette after the meeting.

Up-Date: A special thank you to Paulette Balog, John Labate and Joe Dwyer , who went out and visited both Bill Tate and Charlie Noel …at two separate nursing homes, …thank you guys for taking out the time on Sunday to visit them and thank you for supplying the ice cream Cake.

NABF President Joe Dwyer talked on both the Vitali Klitschko/Tomasz Adamek and Floyd Mayweather/Victor Ortiz fights.

President Duffy stated that we gave out $1,500 to boxing people in need this month. He also stated that Ring 8 donated $2,000 to the Metro Amateur Boxing Championships.

Sunday, December 18th is our Holiday Party at Russo’s on the Bay. The price per ticket is $125.

President Duffy stated that we will be running 2 Golden Glove Shows in 2012; the 1st one will be together with the Daily News on January 26th. This will be in conjunction with the Bill Gallo Scholarship Fund.

The Fire Department ran another successful Amateur Boxing Show and Ring 8 members, Joe Dwyer, Tommy Gallagher, Tony Mazzarella and Bobby Bartels gave out awards.

Ring 8 Boxing Historian & President of the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame Henry Hascup introduced former World Heavyweight contender, Alex Miteff, who fought Muhammad Ali, Jerry Quarry, and Eddie Machen, and beat Nino Valdes and fought a draw against George Chuvalo. Tommy Gallagher also talked on Alex. Alex’s son gave a talk on his father’s boxing career.

President Duffy and Henry Hascup introduced our guest speaker Gary Shaw, and how much he has done for boxing. Gary talked on how he got started in boxing and said that it was Jersey Joe Walcott who actually gave him his start. Walcott and Al Certo helped him out early on. Walcott appointed Gary an Inspector, making $5 a show back in 1971. Several years later he became the Chief Inspector.

In 1998, Main Event promoter Dan Duva passed away and the Duva family split, and he was asked to become the Chief Operating Officer of Main Events.

Gary Shaw has promoted or co-promoted many of the biggest grossing fights in boxing history, including Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson, the biggest grossing pay-per-view fight with 1.8 million PPV buys, generating approximately $103 million in gross PPV revenue. That would be his last fight with Main Events, as he started has own Promotion company in Gary Shaw Productions, LLC., one of boxing’s most successful promotions in all of boxing.

Gary talked on how exciting it was to put on the fight of all fights when Diego Corrales climbed off the floor, not once, but twice, to stop Jose Luis Castillo, all in the same round. He stated that it is a real honor to have all them fight for him.

Gary then ended his talk by donating $2,500 to Ring 8.

He took several questions, Stan Janousek asked him about the Mayweather/Ortiz fight, and Gary gave his opinion on the fight. Frank Pena stated that this is the second time he heard him give a speech, the first one was at last years New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame affair, and said Gary was a real nice guy and a credit to our sport.

President Duffy then presented Gary Shaw with a Ring 8 hat.

President Duffy talked on the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame Induction and Award ceremonies which takes place on Thursday, November 10th in Garfield, New Jersey., and if anyone was interested to contact there President Henry Hascup.

Louis Amend gave a short talk on our 1st Annual Ring 8 Picnic and Congratulation President Bob Duffy, on a job well done.

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

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