The Hall of Fame Parade

Ibhof Building

Rain stopped falling about noon as people started lining up along the parade route.

Crowd gathers

Sergio Martinez

Middleweight champ Sergio Martinez makes a call before the parade.

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Marvelous Marvin Hagler arrives at the parade staging area.

Jake

The Raging Bull---- Jake Lamotta--- signs a glove for a fan as the parade gets underway.

Ricardo Lopez

Ricardo Lopez, 51-0-1 world champion 105-pounder, enjoys the parade.

Ken Norton

Former heavyweight champ Ken Norton waves to the crowd.

Aaron Pryor Senior and Junior

Former light welterweight world champ Aaron "The Hawk" Pryor and his son, super middleweight contender Aaron, Junior ride together.

Mike Tyson

It was tough to get a good view of Mike Tyson with his car was ringed by security.

Crowd viewing parade

Thousands of people lined the street watching the parade.



World champions Kostya Tszyu and Erik Morales followed by boxing writer and historian Bert Sugar riding with football Heisman Trophy winner Desmond Howard.

Former super featherweight champ Jesse James Leija.

Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Ken Norton.

Induction Speeches

Sylvester Stallone

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Crowd listens to induction speeches.

crowd listening to induction speeches

Mike Tyson

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Former heavyweight champ Leon Spinks leaves induction ceremonies.

Leon Spinks

Former champ Vinnie Paz signs a fans shirt after the inductions

Vinnie Paz

Candid Shots

Azumah Nelson

Azumah "The Professor" Nelson poses with young fan. Nelson flew in from Ghana for the weekend.

Julio Cesar Chavez with cigarette

Julio Cesar Chavez, still the pride of Mexico with his 107 ring victories, takes a cigarette break after being inducted into the hall of fame.

George Chuvalo Lou Duva Bert Sugar Jose Suleiman

Fans listen to a panel discussing boxing ills. Panelists: Former heavyweight contender George Chuvalo, trainer Lou Duva, writer/historian Bert Sugar, World Boxing Council president Jose Suleiman.

Fan posing with title belt

Courtesy of the World Boxing Council, fans got a chance to feel what its like to have a world title belt. This one is autographed by Julio Cesar Chavez.

Frank Stallone

Frank Stallone, brother of hall of fame inductee, Sly.

Barry McGuigan

Former featherweight champ Barry McGuigan signs autographs at the hall of fame.

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Silent auction inside hall of fame.

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Memorabilia in silent auction. Note photo of young, toothless Leon Spinks. Woman in lower right is not up for auction.

Aaron Pryor does a little ring demo of the technique that earned him a 39-1 record and the world welterweight title.

Micky Ward, whose life is the basis of the Academy Award winning film The Fighter, does a ring demo. Mark Wahlberg played Micky in the film.

Dicky Ecklund signing autograph

No one signed more autographs than Dicky Ecklund , brother of Micky Ward and the real life character played by Christian Bale in The Fighter.

Micky Ward

Despite his worldwide acclaim because of the movie, The Fighter, Micky Ward still schleps his own bags out of his hotel. He was rushing to catch a flight back to Massachusets. But it turned out the flight was canceled. Micky and his brother Dicky Ecklund wound up catching a ride home.