2010 COMMONWEALTH GAMES - BOXING

TEAM ENGLAND -  RED HOT

PHOTO GALLERY

TEAM ENGLAND PHOTO  -  Courtesy of IAIN WEAVER

TEAM WALES vs TEAM CANADA  and SCOTLAND

TOM STALKER - TEAM ENGLAND

Devon Boatswain - Team Guyana

(from the "Stabroek News - October 5 th.)

Photos - Team Canada & Team England

Photo - Luke Woods - Team Australia - 

by Melissa Adams, Canberra Times

Photo - 2010 Boxing Team - Northern Irelamd

Photo - PADDY BARNES -  Belfast

Photo - Callum Johnson - Team Scotland

(Retford Times - October 20, 2009)

Photo - Team Scotland

(Amateur Boxing Scotland - announcement)

Photos - Flag of Wales & Welsh Boxing Team

Photo - Andrew Selby - Team Wales

BANTAMWEIGHT BOXER

("Barry & District News" - July 22, 2010)

Photo - Fred Evans - Team Wales

ANDREW SELBY - TEAM WALES

THE 2010 BOXING JOURNEY BEGINS - 2010 Commonwealth Games - by brian zelley


For the various Boxing Teams from the Commonwealth Nations, we begin with the individual boxers in the last days of their preparation before leaving for Delhi to compete in the 2010 GAMES.


Action in the ring will take place at the "Talkatora Indoor Boxing Stadium".


We now know the names of the boxers, coaches and managers of many of the teams from 
Australia to Canada, England, India and the other places around the globe.


For the Canadian team (see photo of the names) we have the seniors such as DIDIER BENCE
and STEVE ROLLS to the young ones like ALEX RYNN  from Alberta.  They and their team mates
will be in competition with members of the Australian team such as lightweight LUKE JACKSON, 
and members of three boxers from Guyana - DEVON BOATSWAIN, DEXTER JORDAN and CLEVLON ROCK.

For ENGLAND (see photo) of team including Tommy Stubbs and Bradley Saunders

New Zealand boxers will include JOSEPH PARKER, NATHAN MCEWEN,  ANGUS DONALDSON,  REECE PAPURI and DAVID ALOUA of a five member team.


For SCOTLAND the team includes boxer CALLUM JOHNSON from England, but qualified for Scotland.

Over the next few weeks, we will follow the progress of the Commonwealth boxers as they compete
against the best at Delhi, India.

THE CREAAM OF THE CROP - LIGHTWEIGHTS JOSH TAYLOR and TOM STALKER


As the days passed, the most anticipated final would be a lightweight contest between
England's TOM STALKER  and Scotland's JOSH TAYLOR  To-date, each bocer has 
demonstratd excellence in their bouts.

RICK BROUGH - The Builder

THE RICK BROUGH STORY: by brian zelley


RICK BROUGH is one of 15 that has been selected for the
British Columbia Amateur Boxing Hall of Fame.  To understand his contribution to boxing in British Columbia one needs to step back to 1979

To understand Brough's  contribution in Canada, one needs to step back to 1960.

1979 -  In June 1979, the newly appointed Vancouver Island Amateur Boxing
Commissioner called a meeting for all Vancouver Island boxing clubs and available officials.  Some of those that attended were GEORGE SHIELS of
Campbell River, LOU BUJDOSO of the Victoria Jaycees, various members of the
Victoria Athletic Association, boxing official BOB PERRY and others.

BROUGH demonstrated his administrative skills from the opening bell of the Vancouver Island meeting in Victoria by evaluating the past season and to guide the plans for the 1979/1980 season and beyond.  At the time, the VAA boxing program was on the ropes with no facilities and only two active boxers.  However,
members of the Victoria Jaycees Boxing Club (also called the Lakehill Boxing Club) allowed the VAA coaches and the two boxers to train with the growing Jaycees club.

One of the hopes in the summer of 1979 was a major Provincial tournament
and that would come in 1980 with the revival of the BC Diamond Belt
tournament in Victoria which was last held in Vancouver in 1968.

Throughout much of the Eighties. BROUGH would be an important builder for boxing,
but when the British Columbia Amateur Boxing Association decided to
eliminate the Commissioner role and replace it with a coaches representative for the region, amateur boxing on Vancouver Island crashed until planning for the
1994 Commonwealth Games began in 1989.  In the first call for volunteers
in 1990, RICK BROUGH was one of the few to take that first step.
The Boxing Committe members included MIKE SARTORI and BRIAN ZELLEY