Vancouver Island moments

Nationals2015

2015 Senior Open:

Elite Boxing Championships:

by Brian Zelley

* (the tournament is the first Canadian event in the process

for selecting the Canadian boxing team for the 

2015Pan Am Games to be held in Ontario.)

                                             (Boxing Canada photo, October 2014)



Early Action for the Team West 
* Early action for team west resulted in mixed
results with BC's Jessy Brown and River Tucker
being eliminated along with one Alberta boxer.
A big bout expected in the nextround of the
bantamweight division will be a showdown
between BC's Kenny Lally and Ontario's
two time Canadian Golden Gloves champion
Rodolfo Velasquez.

                             Rodolfo Velasquez

Kenny Lally.

Lally over Rodolfo in semi finals, Kenny will fight for gold.
Rodolfo will fight for bronze against Francois Pratte.

A good fight between Velasquez and Lally

Elsewhere for bronze, BC's  River Tucker
will face Carole-Anne Mercier.
In the men's light-heavyweigt division
Max Rizzi to face Richard MacDonald.
An interesting situation is David Gathier will
 be competing for bronze.

Finals: sample of bouts
Alexandra Strickland vs Carolyn Vevre
Emilien Boucher vs Miscael Marin
Lucas Bahdi vs Cylin Downey
Darcy Hinds vs Clovis Drolet
Jake Varga vs Vincent Thibeault

Bronze 

River Tucker, Sierra Picton, Cher Obediah,
Odille Letellier, Brandon Leaman, Max Rizzi,
Kingsley Alexander, Donovan Thomas,
Rodolfo Velasquez,

Silver  Female
Evelyn Calado, Amanda Galle, 
Alexandra Strickland, 

Gold - Canadian champions - Women
Kum , Bujold, Adjei, Vevyre, Kali, Camera, 
Spencer Greey, Lepage-Joanise.

Best Female Boxer: Mandy Bujold.

,Silver Males
* Young, Gillard, Wilcox, Downey, Warner,
* Elabdoulli, Hinds, Varga, Yengue, Huggins.


Gold Males
* Tondo, Boucher, Lally, Bahdi, Biyarslanov,
* Haghigat-Joo, Drolet, Thibeault
, 
* Thibeault, Rasmussen, Kean.


Best Male Boxer:  Lucas Bahdi

Short Jabs and Golden Memories

Kaitlyn Clark, Silver medalist

Beaver Boxing Club, Ottawa

as repoted by Mark Sutcliffe, Ottawa Citizen

"Boxing has changed my life"

River "The Fox" Tucker, bronze

Queensborough Boxing, BC

"A big thanks to coaches Bob and Nathan"

Canadian images:

Won title again for 2015

Canadian boxing, flashbacks

British boxers of 1968

Whose who of British Boxing 1968: by Brian Zelley

                                                        Henry Cooper
                                 Top British Heavyweight

The Heavywrights:
* It was 1968 and the British champion was still
Henry Cooper with Brian Lndon and Billy Walker
high in the rankings. Others included:
Carl Gizzi Johnny Prescott, Jack Bodell, Billy Gray,
Dave Ould, Vic Moore and Peter Boddington.


Other Champions:
* Young McCormack, Johnny Pritchett, Johnny Cooke,
Maurice Cullen, Howard Winstone, Walter McGowan, 
and John McCluskey.

Some oter top names were:
Mark Rowe, Eddie Avoth, Ralph Charles,
Ken Buchan, Brian Cartwright and Alan Rudkin.

Some of the prospects would include Jimmy Revie, 
 and Brian Hudson. Some on the edge  of
 retirement would be  Brian McCaffrey who had
lost to Johnny Cooke in the fight of the year.

Honourary Inductees BCABHoF

2015 BCABHoF Honourary Inductees: 
by Brian Zelley

* As part of the continued growth of the
British Columbia Amateur Boxing 
Hall of Fame, year six will consider
the following five greats as "Honourary Inductees":

Barney Ross, George Chuvalo, Jimmy McLarnin,
Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano

                                      Muhammad Ali



                                                             Barney Ross - Boxer
                                           Barney giving boxer Jimmy Walters pointers in 1954
                                                at the "Sun Golden Gloves in Vancouve

ROCKY MARCIANO

Guest referee and speaker

1967

JIMMY MCLARNIN

George Chuvalo

Induction Process

At the present time folks are

being given an opportunity to

discuss if these five should

be inducted as honourary members.

If it is decided to induct them

steps will be taken

to highlight their stories.

Names In Support

Brian Zelley,  Carol Skanks, Gardipy Donyvon

Justin Pagani, Robert E. Shannon, Scott Galloway,

     Robbie MGregor, Asif Dar, Scotty Olson,  

               Victor Hernandez , Hugo Corral , Rick Gagne 

  

                             

2015 The Eight Nominees, BCABHoF

BCABHoF, 2015 Nominees

BCABHoF, 2015 Nominees: BC Amateur Boxing Hall of Fame nominees for 2015

Some of the eight: by Brian Zelley

Eddie Mulhern,  pioneer
* inductee of the UBC sports hall of fame

Kenny Lally, boxer

Barry Creswell, builder

John Skanks, builder

The Forgotten BC Golden Boy

RAY  LAMPKIN, 1968 B C Golden Boy
by Brian Zelley

Ray Lampkin * Neil Knight

In the flashback section of the May 1984

BC Amateur Boxing News

I reprinted the real story as reported by

Dave Empey in the

"Vancouver Sun"The Golden Boy? Ray Lampkin"

Canadian Boxing - Anniversary Waltz.

LOoking Back  1954 to 1994: by Brian Zelley

Introduction
beyond the video sounds, we step back in time to the years:
1954 - 1964 - 1974 - 1984 - - 1994
From the British Empire Games in 
Vancouver 1954 to Commonwealth Games
in Victoria 1994, and regional tournaments
on Vancouver Island such as the  Island
championships in 1964 and 1984. Also, 
the road to the 1964 and 1984Olympic Games
And many other events in those anniversary years in 2014.


Those Past Years in Canadian Boxing:

Commonwealth Games, Boxing 2014, the medal round

The Boxing Medal Rounds: by Brian Zelley

McFadden the pick of Scotlands boxers
The above link is one of hundreds of stories
about those select boxers that will receive
medals, but the type of medal will be determined
by the action and results in the semi-finals
on Friday, August 1, 2014 in Glasgow. Scotland's
Reese McFadden vs Australia's  Andrew Moloney.

                              Reese McFadden, Team Scotland

One interesting bout in semi finals action will
be between Scotland's Josh Taylor and England's
Sam Maxwell.

                                 **** Josh Taylor ****

For Canada, the first to see action will be woman 
boxer Mandy Bujold. Mandy will face England's 2012 
Olympic champion Nicole Adams. The opening bout
will see Walsh vs Rani with the winner to face 
Adams or Bujold for gold.

* Based on the results in will be Adams and Walsh
battling for gold.  Bujold and Rani earn bronze.

* Next to determine the race for gold:
Waseen vs Omar and McFadden vs Moloney.

* It will be Muhammad Waseen of Pakistan
facing Australia's Andrew Moloney for gold.
McFadden and Omar to settle for bronze.

* Conlan to face Ashfaq for gold, and
Taylor to face Jonas. Also  for the super
heavyweight England's Joyce vs Goodall.
heavyweight:
Samir El Mais vs David Light

For the  women's middlweight
Canada's Ariane Fortain vs 
Englands Savannah Marshall
Men's middleweight:
Fowler vs Coyle.

The Final Round: the champions
Saturday, August 2, 2014 ??

Women:
Flyweight:      Nicola Adams
Lightweight:   S  Watts
Middleweight:  Savannah Marshall

Men's:
Light Fly:     Paddy Barnes   
Flyweight:   Andrew Maloney
Bantam:        M Conlan
Light:              Charlie Flynn
Light welter:  Josh Taylor
Welter:              Scott Fitzgerald                     
Middle:              Anthony Fowler
Light-heavy:   Nyika
Heavy:             Samir El Mais
Super H.:          Joe Joyce

2014 Commonwealth Games boxing

Commonwealth Games boxing -
Glasgow 2014: by brian zelley

* the action has started with some Boxers moving forward into the top 16.

Canada's Custio Clayton earned a victory in the prelim round of action and moves to the top 16 in his weight division.

(file photo including two of the Games boxers

Custio Clayton and Brody Blair)

CUSTIO CLAYTON

*  Custio has won his Monday bout 

and moves forward into

the top 8

* A surprise for Wales as their star ANDREW SELBY
was eliminated in the prelim action by the Scottish boxer
Reece McFadden.
.

(file photo) 

Reece McFadden

Without a doubt, Reece is the

surprise of the 2014 Games.

And, for Scotland he is expected

to be a star beyond the Games.

The real important part of the story
* the real story is not about the medal or who wins what it is about each boxer and how they made the selection to reprent their nation.


We can look back at some of the stories of each competitor and bob and weave our way through their individual journey with trials and tribulations
*One example is a boxer fom Australia
It was 2012 and  Daniel Lewis had hopes for the
Olympics in London, but during a bout with
Cameron Hammond he suffered a broken jaw 
but finished  the bout but his hopes and dreams were dashed for a moment in time.  Daniel Lewis had
fought back to earn a place in Glasgow in 2014.
And there is still those hopes and dreams
For a spot on the 2016 Olympic team for Rio.

For Canadian boxer Custio Clayton, it is a different
story.  Clayton was in the 2012 Olympics but in a
bout that would have guaranteed him at least a
bronze medal, he lost in a controversial decision
against Welsh boxer Freddy Evans. 
So Clayton remains in the game with a goal ofearning a spot for the 2015 Pan Am and 2016 Rio Olympics.

Then we have Canadian middleweight

Brody Blair who has had an interesting

boxing journey with greater hopes

(photos of Brody Blair of Canada)

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Team England

* two early winners were

Joe Joyce and Scott Fitzgerald.

Others will see action on Saturday.

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***** Saturday Action *****

Some names for Saturday evening

Josh Taylor Zack Davies, Sean Duffy,

Antony Fowler, Mark Lucas,

Brody Blair, Michael Gardiner

Canada's A. Biyarslanov faces

Musah Lawson of Ghana on

Saturday afternoon.

**********************************

The Action

Welsh boxer Joe Cordina

over England's Pat McCormack

Cordina moves on to face

Canada's David Gauthier

England's Sam Maxwell wins 

his preliinary bout.

****************************************

Some of the advancing names

Mark Lucas, Australia

Brody Blair, Canada

Josh Taylor, Scotland

Sam Maxwell, England

**********************************+

Women In Boxing

2014 Commonwealth Games

* There is a good selection of women boxers

for this first ever time for

women's boxing in the Games.

One top name from England is

Nicola Adams of Leeds who

became the first woman to win

Olympic gold in the

2012 London Olympics

* another solid performer is

Two solid boxers from Canada are:

Arianne Fortin and Mandy Bujold

*************************************

More Action

Scotland's Reese McFadden

wins in another bout along with 

Scotland's Josh Taylor.

Joe Cordina, keeps the flame alive for the

Welsh boxing team with a victory

over 

Canada's David Gauthier

Charlie Flynn over Nick Cooney.

Stephen Lavelle over Kody Davie

********************************

Monday Action

Some interesting bouts for Monday

* Woods vs McGoldrick

and plenty of other quality bouts.

Custio Clayton wins.

Anthony Fowler 

to top 8.

Benny Maziyo of Zambia

wins big over Brody Blair.

Sean McGoldrick wins over

Jackson Woods to move

to top eight.

Australia's Daniel Lewis

marches on to top 8.

A. Fowler of England

to the top 8.

Paddy Barnes wins

Kristy Harris wins

Nicola Adams wins

********************

For Australia's Daniel Lewis

considering his story, he has

returned in fine form.

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Future Bouts of Interest

Josh Taylor  vs  Zack Davies

(Scotland vs Wales)

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Headlines

"The Scotsman"

"Commowealth Games 

Lewis Benson out"

The Sydney Morning Herald"

"Kristy Harris wins

as women star" - Phil Lutton

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More Action  and Results  -Tuesday

Reece McFadden, Charlie Flynn, Josh Taylor,

Molony, Joyce, Goodall, S. Watts,

J. Fitzpatrick,  Sam Maxwell,

S. Duffy, K. Scott.

Arianne Fortin, Lauren Price, 

and Savannah Marshall

*Hartlepool's  Marshall started boxing

under the directon of coach Tim Coulter.

Newport's Lauren Price has the

"fire and ice" philosophy.

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Flashbacks

Empire/Commonwealth Games

Moments in History

1994 Canadian Team members

Victoria, BC

Jack Meda - 1970

Bronze

Frank Scott - 1966

Bronze

Scotty Olson

Wilfie Greaves

Gold 1954

2010 Delhi

Alex Rynn

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Wednesday happenings

More quarter finals

including women boxers

Canada's Mandy Bujold to face Kristy Harris.

Some of the other names in action:

M. Conlan, S. McGoldrick, J. Ham, 

Samir El Mais, Nicole Adams, E. deSilva

C, Clayton vs S. Donnelly

Fitzgerald vs Morgan

**************************************************

Boxers guaranteed a medal

from action July 30th.

Samir El Mais, Mandy Bujold

Conlan, McGoldrick, Ashfaq, 

Njangiru, Lavelle, Apochi, Light

Walsh, Nicola Adams, Audley, 

Arianne Fortin

S. Donnelly

Donnelly wins over 

Canada's Custio Clayton.

*************************

Semi Finals

Walsh ** Rani ** Bujold

Adams ** Waseem ** Omar

McFadden ** Moloney ** Ashfaq

Njangiru **  Conlan ** McGoldrick

Maxwell ** Taylor ** Duffy

Jonas **  St. Pierre **  Thorley

McGlinchey ** Nyika ** Szkabembe

Joyce ** Ajagba ** Goodall

Audley ** Watts ** Devi

Machong ** Fortin ** Price

Oloke  *******  Marshall

Williams **  Lashram ** Barnes

Kaggawa ** Cordina ** Flynn

Alexander ** Fitzpatrick

Mbenge ** Fitzgerald  

Jangra ** Donnelly ** Vuender

Coyle ** Fowler ** Muziyo

El Mais * Apochi 

Lavelle ***** Light

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Thoughts and memories

* English boxer Sam Maxwell

has pointed the finger at 

Tom Stalker has helping earn

that Bronze medal bout

"Sam Maxwell reveals pre-fight 

pep talk from Tom Stalker helped

his medal win"

"Liverpool Echo" by Phil Kirkbride.

Tom Stalker, second