[D. Bergin]

If Baines and Sutter are your guys punching bags, consider yourselves lucky.

I’m all for putting in just about anybody into any specific HOF for any particular reason, as long as they made their mark on the sport. Now go look up Jackie Tonawanda. International Boxing Hall of Fame recently put her in the hall.

I’m all for trailblazing female boxers getting in. Problem is, there’s no record of her actually being a boxer, or fighting any other women. She happened to fool a bunch of writers in the 70’s and 80’s that she was some sort of gym warrior. Most have admitted they got taken by her, through made up news clippings and press releases.

She was one of the first women to get licensed to box in the state of New York, but never actually used it. She called herself “The female Muhammad Ali”, and even conned Ali into taking pictures with her and talking her up, but she ignored any women who actually wanted to fight her. She was a manufactured persona.

Weird thing is, she was dead 10+ years before she got elected into the HOF, so somehow she conned a bunch of people from the grave to let her in. It’s basically the equivalent of Sidd Finch getting into the Baseball HOF.