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Boxing Life Stories

Season 4: #11 Ed Brophy

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Executive director of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, Ed Brophy was a lifelong boxing fan who has created a utopia for boxers and fans alike. He's done it all in the sleepy upstate town of Canastota in New York and after opening with just a small museum in 1989, he's built it in to one of the sport's bucket list destinations. Here, he talks about his journey building the Hall, its expansion, the controversies he faces, the selection process and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Well, no, we didn't buy it.

0:01.5

In order to we buy any member of the year,

0:04.0

everything's been donated.

0:05.3

Never started the system of buying it,

0:07.2

but it costs a lot of money to keep it up.

0:08.8

The exhibit cases, the maintenance, the facility,

0:11.8

everything goes with it.

0:12.9

We could not afford it by member of the year,

0:15.8

of collectible, you know, the robes, the trunks, the shoots.

0:18.5

It's all the generosity of the family,

0:20.5

or the boxer themselves,

0:22.4

or somebody who might have been turned older for many years,

0:25.1

and then they turned over to a family.

0:27.4

What do voters do?

0:30.2

They keep somebody out of a hall of fame,

0:33.6

and their mind rightly so,

0:36.2

and others feel that perhaps their achievements

0:41.4

still are worthy to be in the hall of fame,

0:45.2

and some may feel that they may even be worthy

0:49.5

if they didn't pass a test.

0:50.9

I'll want a particular fight, their achievements,

0:52.7

of everything else they did already earned them

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