Wednesday, June 29, 2011

2011 Election process BCABHOF

BRITISH COLUMBIA AMATEUR BOXING HALL OF FAME


THE 2011 SELECTION PROCESS BEGINS


Input and Sources:
Over the last couple of months various folks have helped compile
 a story about the nominees and individual  stories about some of the
nominees.  Stories on this blog include information about the
Boyce Family,  Lennie Walters,  Tommy Paonessa, Alan Brown, 
 Derrick Hoyt, the Campbell River Eagles, South Hill/Firefighters




and other information and photos including Jamie Ollenberger, 
Wally Doern, Stanley F. Smith, Dave Wylie, and Les Hamilton.



Saturday, June 11, 2011

JAKE WEITZEL

THE JAKE WEITZEL BOXING STORY: by Brian Zelley
(authorized by courtesy of Jake Weitzel,  boxing champion).
INTRODUCTION
JAKE WEITZEL  has travelled from a BOXING BC amateur boxer
 to a COMBSPORT boxing champion over several years of activity,
but his boxing story begins at his boxing club.

AMATEUR BOXING
Jake as a member of the BLUE CORNER BOXING CLUB engaged in numerous tournaments from the BC EMERALD GLOVES to the 2008 SENIOR NATIONALS which included other BCboxers such as DARCY HINDS, STEWART HILL, BRENNAN LOWRIE, NATHAN KULCZYCKI, SARAH PUCEK, PEGGY MAERZ and ROSALLIA CALLA.


COMBSPORT CHAMPION


Jake has continued his boxing with some important victories under
the banner of the Combsport group of which JAMIE ALLISON is
a co-founder of the group that supports old style boxing with a 
departure from Computer scoring which is used by Boxing Canada.