Selecting the nominees for the Canadian Wall

THE SELECTION PROCESS BEGINS - by b. w. zelley

The Western Canadian past and present boxing community is now in the
process of of going through a list of names to decide how many of about 
thirty names from British Columbia to Manitoba.  Early in the process
one of the many names receiving early support from the wider 
Western Canadian viewpoint is DALE BROWN.

*two names that will be considered despite not being on the list 
include:  WILLIE deWIT and WILF GREAVES.

ALLAN BAYNE
BERT LOWES
DALE WALTERS
DICK FINDLAY
EDDIE HADDAD
FRANK SCOTT
FREDDY FULLER
HAROLD MANN
PAT O'REILLY
ROGER ADOLPH
TOM PAONESSA
BILL MCGRANDLE
CARMEN RINKE
DALE BROWN
HARVEY RETI
DOUG BOLIANATZ
KAI YIP
KELLY PERLETTE
PAUL HORTI
SCOTTY OLSON
WM. TITLEY
CURTIS FIDLER, HANK HARTENBERGER, KEN GOFF MORGAN WILLIAMS
WESLEY SUNSHINE, ALLAN TUMMON,  BILLY PINKUS, KEN JOHNSON,
HERB EMBUDENIYA, KENT BROWN and LEN JOHNSON.

November boxing flashbacks

IT HAPPENED IN NOVEMBER 1983: by brian zelley

*From the pages of the "BC Amateur Boxing News", December 1983

It seems like yesterday, but it was 29 years ago, and all of the players

in the story are no longer active in the sport to any degree.

Victoria Jaycees Boxing Club Show  Gordon Head Rec Centre: 

As expected it was another one of those sunday afternoon boxing shows 

hosted by Mike Sartori and the Jaycees boxing club.  As expected there was

support from other boxing clubs including the Ladysmith club, Parksville

and some regulars from the mainland including  Ralph Galloway and

his Richmond Boxing Club and the Queensborough club from New Westminster.

*The opening bout featured promising Ladysmith boxer TONY WILLIS
 engage inan exciting bout with Victoria's  AUGUSTOS DOS REIS. 
 The main event was bout 12 and featured Victoria's MIKE KENNEDY 
defeat Parksville's capable SCOTT CESSFORD in an action packed
 senior welterweight bout. 

*The ;parade of  other boxers that saw action in that exciting club show 
included: Paul Bottomley, Shawn Patton, Clint Dumais, Scott Wood,
Richard Compart, Rick Cox, Dave Hendrickson, Lyle Hendrickson, 
Brent Lackie, Lyle Ritchie, Kirk Ranneris, Robert Lowe, Kit Munro,
Kevin Cranmer, Tim Cessford, Paul Wade, Paul Deluca and Troy Taylor.

Ring Officials: head official: Brian Zelley, judges and referees:
Bob Perry, Howard Curling, Ian Weir and Tom Turnbull
Glover was coach Steve Barnes.

IT HAPPENED IN NOVEMBER 1985

* It was the 1985 Emerald Gloves held on November 15, 1985.

At the end of the tournaments the open junior Emerald Boy

was TONY DUFFY of the Sunshine Boxing Club.  The top

junior novice was Larry Barber of Maple Ridge.  In the finals

Duffty faced the active Troy Taylor of the Queensborough club.

In the open senior light-heavyweight division it was GARY WOOD

of Campbell River. 

MANITOBA AMATEUR BOXING history page

THE MANITOBA AMATEUR BOXING STORY

- by brian zelley

BOXING MANITOBA: The Here and Now

*today in the year 2012, Manitoba continues to be a solid part of 

Boxing Canada with a good selection of boxing clubs, experience

members of a board of directors and plenty of coaches, officials

and share of boxers from the junior novice stage to open seniors

in men and women's boxing programs.

*Some of the folks on the front stage on behind the scenes getting
things done and making things happen include folks such as:
Mark Collins, Phil Natividad, Claude Plante, and Kent Brown 
But, each of the boxing clubs have various coaches, trainers
and volunteers that ensure the bright lights will shine down on
ring activity in club shows and tournaments.

Current Listed Clubs of Boxing Manitoba:

Alliance, Brandon, Clifton, Crow Lake, Eastman, ITC, Gojo,

Orioles, Pan Am, Power, Sweatshop, YFC, ITC, United 

and the Winnipeg Elite Boxing Academy.

Some boxers of note in the current period are:

Jonathan Quinit, Katie Saull, Brad Katona, Andrew Gardinson.

Names and Faces from the Past:

Herb Embuldeniya  is one of a 
number of  high profile names
from the past.  Herb became the
President of Boxing Canada in
the mid-Eighties during the 
tame that Canadian boxers were
winning medals at the Olympic Games.

Some other names from the past 
include ALLAN TUMMON, 
Len Johnson and Billy Pinkus.
One of the star boxers from 
Manitoba that was part of the Canadian Armed Forces
boxing teams was the late Eddie Haddad  who is in 
a number of sports or boxing halls of fame.  
A sample of boxers from the Eighties include"
Shane Poole and Ken Johnson.