Ring 8 Pictures & Notes of Tuesday, January 21, 2020 at O’Neill’s Restaurant
The first meeting of the New Year took place on Tuesday, January 21, 2020 at O’Neill’s Restaurant. President Charlie Norkus opened the meeting with our Flag Salute followed by the 10 count by Boxing Judge Ron McNair!
President Norkus announced several changes for 2020, including the annual membership dues going up to $35, our buffet will now cost each member $10 and Ring 8 will have a by-monthly meetings, instead of monthly ones!
We had several Outstanding Guest speakers which included Mathew “Lefty Gunz” Gonzalez, who was interviewed by President Norkus and talked about his career and his future plans. We also had Bobby McGuire the Head Coach/ Mgr of FDNY Boxing Team, who will be running bouts March 13th Hulu Theatre FDNY vs Police Depts.
Bob Duffy talked on the up coming New York State Boxing Hall of Fame event on April 19th and Fred Romano who talked on his newest project “The Boxing Genome Project.” A large scale future boxing reference to identify, collect and categorize, preserve and publicize the existence of various content related to the sport of Boxing.
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(All Pictures taken by Stan Janousek, professional fight name Stanley Yanachek)
Fred Romano
Mathew “Lefty Gunz” Gonzalez with President Charlie Norkus
Bobby McGuire
Bob Duffy
