Dwaine Simpson January 26, 1935 – August 3, 2023 ********* IBRO’s Dwaine Simpson, who ran the Miami Dade County Parks amateur boxing program for 42 years, died August 3 at his Weston home after a brief illness. He was 89. Dwaine was born in Asheville, North Carolina, on January 26, 1934, and was an active […]
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Rest in Peace Eder Jofre, Former Bantamweight and Featherweight Champion and Hall of Fame Inductee By Chris Smith Eder Jofre, former world bantamweight world champion (1960-1965) and featherweight champion (1973-1974), passed away in the early hours of Sunday, October 2, 2022 in his native Brazil. The cause of death was complications from pneumonia which Jofre
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Sugar Ray Robinson has once again been named the greatest boxer of all time, pound for pound, by the International Boxing Research Organization just as he was 15 years ago.
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Ron Ross succumbed to the coronavirus on March 23, 2020, at a hospital in Boca Raton, Florida.
HERBERT WEISSBLUM – Of Whidbey Island, Washington, formerly of Winchester, Massachusetts died unexpectedly on December 26, 2017 at the age of 89. Herb, a resident of Whidbey Island (WA), was originally from Boston, where for 35 years he practiced law primarily as a business litigator after obtaining his B.A. from Michigan State University and an
Don S. Cogswell became the IBRO’s fifth President on January 1, 2015.
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Dan Cuoco has been a lifelong friend of boxing, from the time he was a youngster until the present day.
Karel de Vries December 27, 1922 – April 10, 2012 IBRO Boxing Historian and famed Marine photographer J. Karel de Vries passed away on April 10, 2012 in Cape Town, South Africa. He was 89. Karel was born in Worcester, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa on December 27, 1922. As a Marine photographer
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IBRO Charter Member Laurence Franklin Fielding, 84, of Falmouth, Virginia passed away on Wednesday, April 22, 2009.
