The MANNY SOBRAL BOXING STORY

THE MANNY SOBRAL BOXING STORY:  By Brian Zelley

Introduction

I first met MANNY SOBRAL in the Eighties when he was a junior amateur boxer for the Shamrock Boxing Club in Vancouver, BC.   Recently, he has been recognized as a boxer inductee in the
BRITISH COLUMBIA AMATEUR BOXING HALL OF FAME and recently he has been recognized in the coaching area by the BURNABY SPORTS HALL OF FAME.

MANNY SOBRAL JUNIOR BC BOXER

(Photo: Manny training
with boxer Alan Brown
at Bob Decker's 
Shamrock Boxing club
at the Main Street gym.)















Step back in time to the early eighties in British Columbia amateur boxing and boxer
MANNY SOBRAL was one of the many amateur boxers that would be involved in open
competition and club shows.  A sample of others TONY DUFFY, TONY FRANCIS,
WILLY CURRY and many more.

1983 BC JUNIOR NATIONAL TEAM

Coaches - WALLY HILL and JOHN KOVACS

Boxers -  Alan Brown, Willy Curry, Deep Butter, MANNY SOBRAL,
Paul Deluca, Aaron Wolfe, Mike Wood, Tony Francis, Scott Bannink.

1984 Junior Nationals Championships - Burnaby, BC -
British Columbia Amateur Boxing Association -  training centre - May 1984.

1985 - BC Amateur Boxing News - hot topics -
- editor brian zelley, president george armson
Special Award Winners:
the harry twist award - JOE PENDRY
the jimmy symes award - MANNY SOBRAL
the harold mann award - RUDY BIANCO

1988 Canadian Senior National Boxing

1988 Canadian Amateur Olympic Boxing Team

SOBRAL in the HERE and NOW

Manny Sobral is still involved in boxing on the Professional level 

and to some degree on the amateur level.  One of his main areas

of interest has been promoting fights which stems back to when

he helped organize and promote one of the BC Golden Gloves

tournaments a number of years back.

In the North Burnaby Boxing Club which used to be a key location

of the Boxing BC headquarters and location for Olympic team 

training for the 1984 and 1988 Canadian teams.  

Also, he was involved with boxer JUNIOR MOAR and was involved

with arranging the promotions of a couple of the title fights in

Richmond, BC.

In the near future, there will be another pro boxing card with

the headliner being ADAM "A-bomb" TRUPISH at River Rock.

And, a special guest being former world champ: Eddie Mustafa Muhammad
aka Edward Gregory, the multi-term golden gloves champion.