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4-division champ Roy Jones Jr. heads Boxing HOF selections
Brandon Figueroa, left, battles Stephen Fulton in the super bantamweight world champion fight at the Park MGM Park Theater in Las Vegas, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021. (Erik Verduzco/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

4-division champ Roy Jones Jr. heads Boxing HOF selections

CANASTOTA, N.Y. (AP) — Roy Jones Jr., Miguel Cotto and James Toney have been elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame along with three-division female champions Regina Halmich and Holly Holm.

Also selected for induction were publicist Bill Caplan in the Non-Participant category and journalist Ron Borges and historian-producer Bob Yalen in the Observer category. Posthumous inductees announced Tuesday include junior lightweight champion Tod Morgan in the Old Timer category and ring announcer Chuck Hull in the Non-Participant category.

Inductees were voted in by members of the Boxing Writers Association and a panel of international boxing historians.

Due to the cancellations of the two previous induction weekends because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Classes of 2020 and 2021 also will be honored June 9.

The Class of 2020 includes Bernard Hopkins, Juan Manuel Marquez, Shane Mosley, Christy Martin, Lucia Rijker, Barbara Buttrick, Frank Erne, Paddy Ryan, Lou DiBella, Kathy Duva, Dan Goossen, Bernard Fernandez and Thomas Hauser.

The Class of 2021 includes Wladimir Klitschko, Floyd Mayweather, Andre Ward, Laila Ali, Ann Wolfe, Marian Trimiar, Jackie Tonawanda, Davey Moore, Freddie Brown, Dr. Margaret Goodman, Jackie McCoy, George Kimball and Jay Larkin.

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