Canadian Boxing, Faces on the Wall

CANADIAN BOXERSL by Brian Zelley

Faces On The Wall

LESLIE BORDEN - YVON DURELLE
BLAIR RICHARDSON - GEORGE CHUVALO

CLYDE GRAY - WILFIE GREAVES
DONATO PADUANO - IAN CLYDE

Scotty Olson and Lennox Lewis
Jimmy Walters and George Chuvalo

More Faces On The wall
Shawn O'Sullivan, Gordie Lawson, Dale Walters, Lennie Walters

Names on a page
1971 George Chuvalo, Bill Drover, Donato Paduano,
Clyde Gray, Al Ford, Billy McGrandle, Les Gillis,
Rocky McDougall, and Jackie Burke.

1991 two of the top Canadians were
TREVOR BERBICK and NICK FURLANO

2006 Top Canadian Boxers
STEVE MOLITOR, DALE BROWN, OTIS GRANT, KINGSLEY IKEKE,

A GREAT AMATEUR TOURNAMENT

Manny Sobral meets the greatest Muhammad Ali

Manny meets the greatest  - story of MANNY SOBRAL meeting MUHAMMAD ALI

from the LANGLEY ADVANCE, the artickle touches on Sobral being thrilled to meet Ali at an October function relating to a movie Facing Ali.  It also touches on current amateur boxer ROBERT COUZENS
and 1988 Canadian Olmpic team.  the one name mentioned was LENNOX LEWIS.

ANOTHER STORY BACK IN TIME 1972 - by brian zelley

Back in 1972, a number of us got to meet MUHAMMAD ALI

Not only did I see him training at the old North West Eagles boxing gym in Vancouver but,
two of us Zelley and fellow co-founder of the Nanaimo Boxing Club DANNY WRIGHT visited Ali in his place at the Georgie Hotel.  Ali was training for his but with George Chuvalo.  Also, we  met Houston welterweight MANUEL (Manny) GONZALEZ who had previously  a non-title win over EMILE GRIFFITH.