NOVA SCOTIA -- The 2008 Black Ice Hockey And Sports Hall Of Fame Advisory Committee announced the nominees for the third Black Ice Hockey And Sports Hall of Fame under the category of Boxing. A total of 32 athletes have been nominated.

A maximum of three individuals will be inducted into the Hall of Fame at this year's 3rd Black Hockey and Sports Hall of Fame Conference scheduled for August 15-16, 2008 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.

The nominees are:

1880-1940

George Byers -Lightweight
Professor John Bailey- Boxing Promoter
Joe Jeannette -Heavyweight
Larry Gains- Heavyweight
Terrance "Tiger" Warrington -Light-Heavyweight
Raymond 'Ray' McIntyre –Middleweight
Harry Wills -Heavyweight
Arnold Hayes – Heavyweight
Sam McVey -Heavyweight

1940-1960

Jimmie Davis - Heavyweight
'Lil' Arthur King -Lightweight
Charlie Chase –Middleweight
Charley Burley -Middleweight
Willie Durant –Welterweight
Holman Williams -Middleweight
Earl Walls – Heavyweight
Frank "Frankie"Hamilton-Lightweight
Ralph Walton –Welterweight
Danny Webb –Flyweight
Robert "Buddy" Jones – Flyweight
Sugar Ray Robinson –Welterweight
Archie Moore –Light Heavyweight

1960-Present

Al Sparks – Light Heavyweight
Leslie Borden – Light Heavyweight
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter -Middleweight
Joe Frazier -Heavyweight
Larry Holmes -Heavyweight
Emile Griffith -Welterweight
Joe Pyle –Boxing Promoter
George Foreman -Heavyweight
Mike Tyson -Heavyweight
Otis Grant -Super Middleweight

The 2008 Boxing Inductees will be announced on Thursday, May 15th. The third Black Ice Hockey and Sports Hall Of Fame Conference scheduled for August 15-16, 2008 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada is designed to be a forum for the celebration, promotion, and understanding of the Black Athlete and his or her role in North American Society.

The Conference offers scholars and students of Black Sports History a chance to come together for the purposes of meeting and networking all the while engaging in intellectual dialogue through comparative discussions and scholarly debate on various topics pertaining to the history of Black Sports.

Topics may include, but are not limited to the Black experience in terms of individual athletes, their achievements and life histories, their struggles for self- identity, their gender, individual self-labor, the role of slavery and its impact on sports and individuals, the role of religion, the educational process, and Black nationalism.

The purpose of the Hall of Fame Conference is to lay the foundation for a permanent Black Hockey and Sports Hall of Fame in Nova Scotia in an effort to usher in a new era of ideas and discussions on the historic evolution of North American Sports and the important role that Black Men and Women have played in reshaping American and Canadian sporting cultures.