David Martinez / Boxing Historian

website: www.dmboxing.com

mailing address: P.O. Box 41536 / Santa Barbara, CA 93140

Boxing collector for 50 years … Boxing writer: Santa Barbara News Press, WBHF Newsletter, Boxing Globe, RingSports Magazine … Boxing analyst: KIST 1340 AM , KDB 1490 AM, KTYD 99.9 FM, KEYT 1250 AM, KVEN 1450 AM, ESPN Radio & KCOX TV, KEYT TV / ABC, KZSB 1290 AM, London England Radio, Los Angeles media TV news reports, Pinnacle Sports Radio Productions, Time Warner Cable TV … Former member of USA Amateur Boxing, Inc / judge & referee 1989-94… volunteer work & contributed to various amateur boxing shows (ie) La Casa De La Raza, Primo Boxing, Los Angeles Diamond Belt Tournaments, the “inaugural” UCSB boxing fight night, Ventura boxing club, Duke’s boxing gym, the Santa Barbara Brawl “fight night” 2001 … also on 2-19-01 brought the “first” World Boxing Champion to Santa Barbara for a P.A.L. public workout & photo autograph signing: Willie Jorrin, WBC Super-Bantamweight titlest … 2003 World Boxing Hall of Fame recipient of Everett L. Sanders Lifetime Achievement Award … reference / historical supervisor contact to answer worldwide web-site boxing questions for World Boxing Hall of Fame … co-promote & MC host “Gathering of Angels” event on 8-12-07 … inducted into the California Boxing Hall of Fame on September 22, 2007 … appearance in (2009) movie “After The Last Round” … president / founder dmboxing website July 2007- current

Graduate of Santa Barbara High School Class of 1966

United States Navy 1966-69 / Signalman 3rd class (E4) / aboard USS Long Beach (CGN-9), first U.S. ship to shoot down enemy aircraft with surface-to-air missiles, Tonkin Gulf, North Vietnam, May 1968, a bench mark in U.S. naval history

Associate Arts Degree Santa Barbara City College 1978

Work Status: State of California / Caltrans / 39 years of service

Transportation Engineering Technician / Permit Inspector

Served as Boxing Historian & Board of Director for World Boxing Hall of Fame / 1997 to

2007 & a voting ballot member for fighter inductees into the World Boxing Hall of Fame …

presenter for inductees: Rodolfo Gonzalez (’03) , Ernie Terrell (’04) , Eddie Perkins (’06).

Presenter for induction into California Boxing Hall of Fame: Eddie Futch (’08).

Current member – Golden State Boxers Association

Personal Quote: “ boxing is my blood life – line ”

Favorite Fighter past: Marvelous Marvin Hagler

Best Fighter all time: Sugar Ray Robinson

Most underrated Fighter past: Vicente Saldivar

Best Boxing movies: Raging Bull (1980), The Set-Up (1949)

My top ten fighters of all time (alphabetically): Muhammad Ali, Henry Armstrong, Roberto Duran, Harry Greb, Jack Johnson, Benny Leonard, Joe Louis, Carlos Monzon, Willie Pep, Sugar Ray Robinson