Ring 8 and New York State Boxing Hall of Fame refers to Ring 8, a nonprofit organization located in New York City founded in 1954 by ex prize-fighter Jack Grebelsky to help former professional boxers in need of financial assistance, including housing, medical care, and funeral related expenses.
 Ring 8 is composed of current and ex professional, amateur, and collegiate boxers, referees, trainers, promoters and others involved in the fight game.
 Ring 8's current president is boxing promoter Bob Duffy, a former New York State Boxing Commissioner.
 The group holds monthly meetings in Long Island City at The Waterfront Crabhouse, and an annual Holiday Party in December as well as a picnic each year.
 Ring 8 members past and present include Rocky Graziano, Joe Miceli, Vito Antuofermo, Juan Laporte, Tony Mazzarella, Bobby Cassidy, Matt Saha, Gil Clancy, Emile Griffith, Tony Napoli, Mark Breland, Junior Jones, Renaldo Snipes, Vinny Madalone, Danny Giovanelli, Bill Tate, Bobby Bartels, Henny Wallitsch, Tommy Gallagher, and Sandy Sadler.
Elmer "Kid Violent" Ray (March 3, 1911 – May 20, 1987) was an American heavyweight boxer who fought from 1926 to 1949.
 He was born in Federal Point, Florida.
 Ray was known as a hard puncher and had a career record of 86 (with 70 knockouts)-13-1.
 Ray never fought for the title, but did fight future heavyweight champions Ezzard Charles and Jersey Joe Walcott.
 In three fights with Walcott, Ray suffered a three round knockout on September 25, 1937, rebounded to outpoint Walcott on November 15, 1946, and lost the third fight by decision (April 3, 1947).
 He defeated Charles on a split decision on July 25, 1947, but was knocked out in the 9th round of their rematch on May 7, 1948.
 He also boxed light heavyweight champion John Henry Lewis, but was stopped in the 12th round on May 19, 1938.
 In 2003, Ray made the Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all-time at number 44.
Natalia Clovis (born July 13, 1943) is an American fencer and artist.
 She competed in the women's team foil event at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
 She became an artist after working in banking for 25 years.
 She studied in Europe and also worked with American sculptor Tony Lopez.
 She resides in Tucson, Arizona.
"The British Poetry Revival" is the general name given to a loose poetry movement in Britain that took place in the 1960s and 1970s.
 The revival was a modernist-inspired reaction to the Movement's more conservative approach to British poetry.
 The poets included Bill Griffiths, Allen Fisher, Iain Sinclair, Gilbert Adair, Lawrence Upton, Peter Finch, Ulli Freer, Gavin Selerie, Frances Presley, Elaine Randell, Robert Sheppard, Adrian Clarke, Clive Fencott, Maggie O'Sullivan, cris cheek, Tony Lopez and Denise Riley.
Carlos Quintana (born November 6, 1976) is a retired Puerto Rican professional boxer.
 As an amateur Quintana represented Puerto Rico.
 He debuted as a professional in 1997.
 On February 24, 2006, he participated in his first professional championship fight, defeating Raul Bejerano for the World Boxing Organization's Latino welterweight championship.
 His first defense took place on June 24, 2006 when he defeated Joel Julio by unanimous decision in a welterweight title eliminator.
 In this fight he also won the World Boxing Council's Latino welterweight championship.
 His first world title fight took place on December 2, 2006, when he fought against Miguel Cotto for the World Boxing Association welterweight title.
 Cotto won the fight by technical knockout.
 On February 9, 2008, Quintana challenged Paul Williams for the WBO welterweight championship, winning the fight by unanimous decision.
 He entered the Light Middleweight division to face Deandre Latimore, knocking Latimore out to win the NABO Light Middleweight championship.
Tony "The Tiger" Lopez (born February 24, 1963), is a former professional boxer from Sacramento.
 He was a 3-Time World Boxing Champion.
 He is remembered for his victory in the 1988 "The Ring" Fight of the year by decision over Rocky Lockridge.
 He fought against Julio César Chávez in 1994 in Monterrey.
 He lost by TKO.
 Tony Lopez is now retired from boxing and runs a bail bond agency in Sacramento.
Rick "Rocky" Lockridge (born January 30, 1959) is an American former professional boxer.
 He is known for handing Roger Mayweather his first defeat—a first-round knockout in just 98 seconds—earning him the WBA and lineal super featherweight titles.
 He later won the IBF super featherweight title.
Tyson Luke Fury (born 12 August 1988) is a British professional boxer.
 He has held the "Ring" magazine heavyweight title since 2015, after defeating long-reigning world champion Wladimir Klitschko.
 In the same fight, Fury also won the unified WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO and lineal titles, with the victory earning him Fighter of the Year and Upset of the Year awards by "The Ring".
 Fury was subsequently stripped of the IBF title later that year for being unable to grant a fight against their mandatory challenger, Vyacheslav Glazkov, due to agreeing to a rematch with Klitschko.
 In 2016, Fury vacated the WBA, WBO, IBO, and lineal titles following an ongoing medical investigation and personal issues and two cancellations of the Klitschko rematch.
 In August 2016, Fury was ranked by BoxRec as the world's sixth best active boxer, pound for pound.
José Martí is an outdoor sculpture of the Cuban nationalist leader and writer of the same name by Cuban artist Tony Lopez, installed at Hermann Park's McGovern Centennial Gardens in Houston, Texas, in the United States.
 The bust was acquired by the City of Houston in 1981.
Tony Lopez (born 1950) is an English poet who first began to be published in the 1970s.
 His writing was at once recognised for its attention to language, and for his ability to compose a coherent book, rather than a number of poems accidentally printed together.
 He is best known for his book "False Memory" (The Figures, 1996), first published in the United States and much anthologised.

Question: In what year was the man that Tony Lopez defeated by decision in the 1988 "The Ring" Fight of the year born?
Answer: 1959