Former world boxing champion Ricardo Mayorga and former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher Devern Hansack officially entered the Nicaraguan Sports Hall of Fame this Saturday.
The Nicaraguan Olympic Committee reported that today they delivered the credentials to the new members “who will be part of the historical gallery of the immortals” of the Nicaraguan Sports Hall of Fame.
Mayorga, the controversial 48-year-old former boxer, is the most relevant of the 15 new tenants, both in sports and offstage, since his two world titles at 147 and 154 pounds from the World Boxing Association (WBA) and the World Boxing Council (WBC), surpassed the achievements of those who will accompany him at the exaltation ceremony, on the 21st.
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Mayorga, who has lived between addictions and recoveries since his retirement in 2019, stood out among renowned athletes and well-known leaders, for his sporting achievements, throughout his 26-year career, in which he faced the best rivals in the world at the time. .
Nicknamed ‘el Matador’, Mayorga faced Andrews Lewis and Vernon Forrest, with whom he won his world titles, even Félix ‘Tito’ Trinidad, Oscar de la Hoya, Shane Mosley, Miguel Cotto, Cory Spinks or Fernando Vargas.
The Nicaraguan retired with a record of 32 wins, 26 of them by knockout, 12 losses, and one draw.
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Along with Mayorga, former Boston Red Sox pitcher Devorn Hansak will be inducted into the Nicaraguan Sports Hall of Fame, with whom he played between 2006 and 2008, and pitched a five-inning no-hitter (shortened by rain).
The former soccer player Claudia Mojica, recognized as one of the best attackers in women’s soccer, who scored more than 300 in a decade, including 62 in a single season, between the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, will also enter.
In addition, the power forward of the basketball team in the years of 1980 and 1990 Herman Mullins, considered one of the strongest in Central America in his time; and the manager who won the silver medal at the 1990 Edmonton Baseball World Championship, Omar Cisneros.
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The list includes former national taekwondo champion Yessenia Pérez, Mayorga’s cousin, and chess player René Pilarte.
Other new members of the local Hall of Fame will be former basketball player Ingrid Baltodano, former soccer player Alex Argüello, former athlete Raquel Downs, sports journalist Martín Ruiz, managers Rolando Cerda and Emerson Velázquez, doctor Marcos Salas, and former baseball player, manager and historian Pedro Torres.
After delivering the credentials this Saturday, the Nicaraguan Sports Hall of Fame will send a letter to each of its new tenants, with a notification letter and an invitation to the induction ceremony, while making their income official with a publication on their networks, according to what a source from the agency told Efe.
The Sports Hall of Fame is located in the Stanley Cayasso Stadium, formerly the Dennis Martínez National Stadium, where there is a permanent exhibition of the most outstanding athletes in the history of Nicaragua.
