Krishna Wainwright, born on November 20, 1962, from Colorado Springs, Colorado, was in the Military Amateur Boxing in 1982.  He began his amateur boxing career while in the United States Army where he had five novice fights with a 3-2 record. He also participated in Collegiate Amateur Boxing in1986- At the State of Colorado, in Colorado Springs, In that competition, she fought in the Open Division-3 for 3 wins by TKO.  At the Regional Championships he won 3 fights- He has a 6-2 amateur record.  He also fought in the1986 National Championships Tournament he advances with three straight wins then loses the fourth fight. Now with a 9-3 record he is ranked in the top ten nationally.  Olympic Amateur Boxing, Team USA boxing recruited him to box and as part of the US Olympic Boxing Team he took on Ireland and won. And then he went to Canada and won. As a professional boxer, he fought from 1992 to 1996, fighting as a heavyweight boxer.

Silas Napoleon Epps, started the first organized boxing club in Greenville, South Carolina, and ran it from 1975-2005. Through his coaching, he has at least one state champion from 1975-1988 and once had five state champions at one time. He had several regional and national fighters at junior and open level competition. He was the coach of once number one middleweight contender Lamar Parks through his amateur and professional career. He also helped in the organization of several neighboring boxing clubs. In 2001 he received a gold seal commendation from the South Carolina Senate for his influence in boxing in the state of South Carolina.

Lonny Ray Epps began boxing at the age of eight years old in San Antonio, Texas under coach's Tony Ayala SP (father of Mile Ayala, Sammy Ayala and Tony 'El Torito' Ayala) and Joe Souza (renowned cutman who worked with numerous star fighters, including Evander Holyfield, Pernell Whitaker, Fernando Vargas and Vladimir and Vitali Klitschko, among many others). At the age of 12, he moved to Marietta, SC, which is in Greenville County, SC and started boxing under his father Silas Napoleon Epps. In 1977 and 78, Lonny won the South Carolina State Junior Olympics and regional then went to place 3rd in the nationals both years. In 1980, he lost a close decision in the South Carolina State Golden Gloves light heavyweight finals but was taken to the regionals as an extra in the light heavyweight division due to middleweight vacancy. He won the Golden Gloves light heavyweight contender Jose Ribalta. He also boxed on several US boxing teams, which included Russia, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia and South Korea and was invited to the 1980 Olympic Trials but declined due to the US Boycott. Lonny was bound for a US boxing team going to Poland in 1980 but declined. The place taking the team to Poland crashed on landing killing all passengers, which included 22 US boxing team members. Lonny had a total of 143 fights, winning 121, losing 21 with 1 draw.

An outstanding heavyweight who appeared on national television many times, was born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina. He was an outstanding amateur and owned several national titles before turning pro in 1982, knocking out Al Collins in Atlantic City. His last bout was a ten-round decision loss to Calvin Jones in 1993. While his overall record was 23-10 he did win the North American Boxing Federation title with legendary Eddie Futch in his corner in 1981 in Atlantic City on the MSG Network. He knocked out undefeated Eddie Gregg in the eighth round.  He fought close fights with many legendary heavyweights including Greg Page, Time Witherspoon, Marvis Frazier, Donovan "Razor" Ruddick and knocked out "Bonecrusher" Smith in his first fight. Broad was a national ranked amateur boxer and knocked Marvis Frazier out in the first round to earn a berth on the 1980 Olympic team which, unfortunately boycotted the Russian Olympics. He won several national titles as an amateur.

Red Michaels was the first person in North Carolina to score a knockout and he did so in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1924.   Boxing had just begun to arrive in the Carolinas at this time and this was one of the early bouts. Red was a hard swinging, crowd loving, welterweight with one of those wiry bodies. He was a right-hander with a great straight right. The first knockout was of Alton Whitfield in the second round at the old Greensboro Armory.   The roaring twenties brought many popular past times to the Carolinas like racing, minor league baseball and boxing. Boxing began then in many Carolina locations like Greensboro, Charlotte, Columbia, Charleston and Gastonia. Many of the boxers then came from the cotton mills, furniture factories and farms. They were a hard lot coming from poverty trying to make the big time in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. It was during this time that Red began to fight following an interest in the great heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey whose bout against George Carpentier in Jersey City was the first boxing match to gross over a million dollars with total ticket sales $1.7 million. While Red Grange, the Galloping Ghost of Illinois fame, became the greatest running back in football history, Babe Ruth was smashing towering homeruns and the press began to pay great attention to all sports. But boxing was to become the sport of the twenties and it finally reached down to the Carolinas and found Red Michaels who carried the nickname Hard Rock. His record was 19-15 with 14KO. Fighters in those days didn't dodge each other like many do now nor waste their time building their records with carefully selected opponent.

SPECIAL AWARDS -- 2014

NATHANIEL FITCH 2014 Carolinas Boxing Contributor of the Year

KENNETH "CHICK" MCCURRY 2014 Floyd Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award