Sad news came today - Gary Shaw passed away at the age of 79 after a long illness with prostate cancer. Boxing fans associate him, first of all, as one of the strongest promoters in the world, but in boxing he appeared much earlier and before that managed to try himself in different roles.
Since 1971, Gary Shaw was a member of the New Jersey State Athletic Commission. At the end of the last century he became the chief operating officer of Main Events, and in 2002 he managed to organize the long-awaited fight between Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis. Only later he founded his own promotional organization, Gary Shaw Productions, which handled the careers of such boxers as Shane Mosley, Timothy Bradley, Ronald "Winky" Wright, Fernando Vargas, Arturo Gatti, Manny Pacquiao and Diego Corrales.
