Naseem Hamed was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2015. Ingle still has not gone in, despite creating countless champions – the majority of them from scratch, most notably Johnny Nelson, Kell Brook, Kid Galahad and Junior Witter, as well as countless other champions at British and European levels. Ingle is on the ballot year after year but always overlooked. Of course, Ingle did far more than just create champions. He was a pillar of the community, insisting that fighters sweep the streets around their neighborhood (so that everyone took pride in where they lived) and taking his fighters to working men’s clubs and prisons to talk to those who could use a healthy dose of positive inspiration.
