Bradley, Froch headline boxing's '23 HOF class

Timothy Bradley Jr., the two-division champion who defeated Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez, volition articulation those fighters successful the International Boxing Hall of Fame erstwhile the Class of 2023 is inducted successful the summer, it was announced Wednesday.

Carl Froch, who faced a who's who of the ace middleweight part during his title reign, and Rafael Marquez, who combined with Israel Vazquez for 1 of boxing's top rivalries, volition beryllium inducted alongside Bradley connected June 11 successful Canastota, New York.

The 3 modern-era men's inductees (last bout nary earlier than 1989) volition beryllium accompanied by Alicia Ashley and Laura Serrano successful the women's modern category.

Trainer Joe Goossen, Top Rank matchmaker Brad Goodman and Top Rank COO Brad Jacobs were elected successful the non-participant category. Former HBO Sports president Seth Abraham and broadcaster Tim Ryan were elected successful the perceiver category.

Posthumous inductees see Tiger Jack Fox and Pone Kingpetch successful the aged timer class and JoAnn Hagen successful the women's trailblazer category.

Bradley, who hails from Palm Springs, California, won his archetypal rubric successful 2008 with a roadworthy triumph implicit Junior Witter successful England. He went connected to unify inferior welterweight belts with a triumph implicit Kendall Holt and aboriginal stopped Devon Alexander to again unify titles successful a 140-pound acme meeting.

The combatant nicknamed Desert Storm scored a controversial determination triumph implicit Pacquiao successful 2012 to seizure a welterweight rubric earlier helium was defeated by the all-time large successful 2 subsequent bouts. Bradley's triumph implicit Ruslan Provodnikov was named the 2013 Fight of the Year, and aboriginal that year, helium delivered a career-best show with a decision triumph implicit Juan Manuel Marquez, the older member of Rafael Marquez.

Bradley (33-2-1, 13 KOs) was trained by Teddy Atlas for his last 3 fights and joins his manager successful the Hall of Fame.

"This is 1 of the top days of my life," said Bradley, who has served arsenic a boxing expert for ESPN since 2016. " ... This is everything I wanted and everything I worked for. I'm afloat of emotions and determination are truthful galore things going done my caput from my past that got maine to this point. This is simply a imagination travel true. This is my heaven, the International Boxing Hall of Fame."

Froch boasts 1 of the champion résumés of the past 15 years successful an epoch erstwhile the champion often don't combat the best. The Cobra won his archetypal rubric with a thrilling decision triumph implicit Jean Pascal successful 2008 and followed up with a come-from-behind 12th-round TKO of Jermain Taylor to clasp the ace middleweight belt.

The U.K. prima went connected to turn backmost Andre Dirrell successful the archetypal circular of the Super Six World Boxing Classic earlier helium lost his 168-pound rubric to Mikkel Kessler. Froch aboriginal avenged the decision to Kessler and added a decision triumph implicit Arthur Abraham, a fifth-round TKO of Lucian Bute and back-to-back victories implicit George Groves successful packed stadiums. Froch (33-2, 24 KOs) was defeated by Andre Ward successful the finals of the World Boxing Classic and present works arsenic a boxing expert for Sky Sports.

"Boxing is the champion athletics successful the world," Froch said. "It tests everything successful a antheral and a woman. The mentality, discipline, grit, determination, heart, desire, everything is each successful that ringing and it is conscionable you connected your ain with your opponent."

Marquez 41-9 (37 KOs) present joins his member successful the hallowed halls aft a agelong wait. The Mexican broke done with an upset determination triumph implicit Mark "Too Sharp" Johnson successful 2001 and stopped the Hall of Famer successful the rematch.

Marquez scored a TKO 8 of Tim Austin successful 2003 to triumph his archetypal rubric and successfully defended the bantamweight title 7 times. But Marquez is champion remembered for his 4 fights with Vazquez, action-packed scraps that featured humor and guts for the lineal inferior featherweight championship.

Marquez won the archetypal and 4th bouts of the series. Vazquez won the different two, and some of those were named Fight of the Year (2007 and '08).

Ashley, who is from Jamaica, won titles successful 3 value classes. She competed successful 13 countries and is present the caput boxing trainer astatine UFC Fit successful Shanghai.

Serrano, Mexico's archetypal women's boxing champion, was instrumental successful the reversal of a 1947 prohibition forbidding women's boxing successful Mexico City.

Joe Goossen, agelong 1 of boxing's champion trainers, joins his precocious brother, promoter Dan Goossen, successful the Hall. Known for his tactical adjustments and calm demeanor successful the corner, Goossen led Diego Corrales to a comeback TKO triumph of Jose Luis Castillo successful what galore see the top combat of the modern era.

Goossen led Michael Nunn, Gabriel Ruelas, Rafael Ruelas and Frankie Liles to championships. He presently trains Ryan Garcia, and successful the past besides worked with Shane Mosley, Riddick Bowe and Joel Casamayor astatine his Ten Goose Gym successful Van Nuys, California.

"To deliberation I'll beryllium successful the Hall of Fame with my member Dan is astir apt the champion happening I've heard since helium died," Goossen said. "When I got into the athletics backmost successful 1970, I would person ne'er thought successful 10 cardinal years that I would truly marque a people and yet extremity up successful the International Boxing Hall of Fame."

Goodman, who has served arsenic 1 of Top Rank's matchmakers for decades, has built implicit 50 champions, including Teofimo Lopez, Miguel Cotto and Shakur Stevenson. From Queens, New York, helium is regarded for his keen oculus for opponents who volition service to make Top Rank's fighters.

Jacobs programmed the fashionable "Tuesday Night Fights" bid connected USA Network for 12 years and has served arsenic Top Rank COO since 2010. He oversees operations of Top Rank's 30-plus yearly events and is regarded for his expertise successful venue location, enactment and negotiating rights fees.

Abraham worked astatine HBO for implicit 30 years, and nether his leadership, HBO was known arsenic "The Network of Champions."

Ryan became the pb blow-by-blow announcer for CBS successful 1977, and alongside Gil Clancy formed 1 of the astir memorable broadcast duos successful boxing history. He called much than 300 title fights, including Ali-Frazier 1, Hearns-Leonard, Hagler-Leonard and Pryor-Arguello.