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

PRO BOXING - Vancouver & Tacoma regions

PROFESSIONAL BOXING'S COMEBACK: By Brian W. Zelley

VANCOUVER - RICHMOND, BC area:

Professional boxing has made a significant comeback in recent years through the efforts
of West Coast Promotions under the hands and eyes of MANNY SOBRAL, NEIL POPE and ALISTER BRODIE.
Recently, the last pro card featured Canadian Light-Heavyweight JUNIOR MOAR.

Of interest, both Junior Moar and Manny Sobral are former Canadian Amateur senior open boxing champions.
Although they fought at different time periods. Of the two Sobral was an amateur boxer in the
Vancouver region during the Eighties. One of his first major National tournaments was the 1984
Junior Nationals of which some other noted boxers participating were Alberta's SCOTTY OLSON, Nova Scotia's
RAYMOND DOWNEY and Quebec's STEWART HILTON.

Aside from Pro Boxing Promotion, Sobral also was involved with the North Burnaby Boxing Club
which until late last year was based out of the old BOXING BC Training Centre.

TACOMA Region

Professional boxing's main force in the Tacoma region is BRIAN HALQUIST PROMOTIONS.
In 1997, the Emerald Queen Casino and Brian Halquist Promotions commenced
"The Battle of the Boat" boxing series.

October 1984

BC AMATEUR BOXING NEWS - October 1984 - Editor, Brian Zelley

For the month of October, there wasn't much in the way of current news to report, but communications with folks like Jerry Shears (Quebec) and Ainslie Frame of Ottawa's "Beaver Boxing Club" did provide some National data such as a focus on
Ontario boxer Steve Beaupre and the list of the 1984 National Champions.

In Seniors it was Steve Beaupre to Lennox Lewis in Intermediate it was Vitto Salvatore to S. Hervieux and in the Juniors held in Burnaby, BC it was Norman Tynes to Willy Curry. As a special awards judge along with Tommy Yule and Glynn Jones it
was a time of concentration watching all the Junior bouts in detail when it got down to the final selection it wasn't easy picking between Eric Grenier, Scotty Olson and Stewart Hilton. But, Grenier was picked in 1984.

An added addition to the News was a submission by Carol Brown of Gold River - she sent two photos of Canadian boxer Greg Johnson sparring with Alan Brown and break dancing in the Village Square.

A real special part of the edition was listing Canada's carded amateur boxers 1972 to 1984.
How many remember names like - Ian Clyde, Cleve Denny, Bryan Gibson, Kevin Howard, George Mason,
the Nolan folks Brian, Frank & Steve Nolan and others such as Carmen Rinke and Lawrence Rolfe.