
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 27, 1991                   TAG: 9102270296
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B7   EDITION: STATE 
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LISTON, PATTERSON INDUCTED

Former heavyweight champions Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson head a list of 26 boxers and officials who will be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame on June 9, museum officials announced in Canastota, N.Y.

Others to be inducted include Tony Zale, Rocky Graziano and Marcel Cerdan, who dominated the middleweight division during the 1940s, said Edward Brophy, the hall's executive director.

Joining those past champions will be middleweights Gene Fullmer (1957, 1959-1962) and Dick Tiger (1963, 1956-1966), who also reigned as the light heavyweight champion from 1966-1968; lightweights Beau Jack and Carlos Ortiz (1962-1965 and 1965-1968), and featherweights Ruben Olivares (1974-1975) and Salvador Sanchez (1980).

Eight of the 26 inductees - all the living honorees - will attend the June 9 induction ceremony, Brophy said.

After June's inductions, there will be 79 members enshrined in the boxing hall of fame.

The inductees were chosen by a 115-member panel made up of members of the Boxing Writers Association and boxing historians from around the world.

by CNB