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.

2011 NOMINATIONS - as of March 13th.

 MARCH 13, 2011 - NOMINEES  TO-DATE
(Revised to APRIL 20 th. yo 24)

                        Tommy Paonessa - Lindy Lindmoser
                               Dave Wylie  -  Alan Brown
BOXERS:
Alan Brown *, Dave Wylie, Jamie Ollenberger,  Les Hamilton, 
Lindy Lindmoser, Matt O'Brien,  Willy Curry, Derrick Hoyt
* Junior/Youth Category
BUILDERS:
Bob Decker, Charles John, George Angelomatis, 
 George Shiels, Stan Smith, 
Terry Cooke,  Wally Doern, 
PIONEERS or MULTI-LEVEL
Lennie Waters - Tommy Paonessa 

                                  LENNIE WALTERS

                                     Stan Smith presemts Harold Mann Award
                                          to Tommy Paonessa

CLUBS, FAMILIES, TEAMS, TOURNAMENTS

Campbell River Eagles, East Vancouver Optimists,
South Hill - Firefighters, The Boyce Family
-1970 BC Senior in 1970 Nationals
.1967 Shrine Invitational Diamond Belt Tournament
(Note - deadline for other nominations - June 30 th.)
(Final number or categories will be decded by Administrators)
comments or suggestion open to all including honorary directors.

STANLEY F. SMITH: By Brian Zelley

In reviewing the history of amateur boxing, for many many decades
one name that can be connected to the "GO TO" tag is the one they
call Stanley F. Smith or to many "Stan the Man".

When it comes time to recognize others, or support others for an award
"who are you gong to call".  Well in Greater Vancouver and the
Lower Mainland. the first name on the call list would be "Stan the Man"
to get things done.   From those early years at the East Vancouver Optimists
boxing club at the Fraserview Boy's Club to his involvement at the 1984
Junior Nationals and Olympic box-offs, it was always Stan that would be
 in the front of another work detail, and during his days with the
 AAU of Canada or the British Columbia Amateur Boxing Association,
Stan was always ready to supply a letter to support someone else
get recognition or an award.

Recent Nomination - DERRICK HOYT, The Pride of Cranbrook.

JAMIE OLLENBERGER

Wally Doern - coach - 2 Rivers Boxing Club 

LES HAMILTON - 1972 Canadian Olympic boxer

BC BOXING OFFICIALS - yesterday and today

THE UNSUNG HEROES: by brian zelley
(from old issues of the BC AMATEUR BOXING NEWS)

The success of any organization requires the dedication of many volunteers
...In recognition of the dedication and distinguished service of the officials
 to the success ...this page is dedicated to the ring officials.

Now that was in 1985 so who were some of the past officials scattered
throughout the towns of British Columbia.

From my memory bank back to the sixties, one of the earliest names
 that I remember was Victoria based referee JACK O'HANDLEY
 but along the way there would be many others. One of the first
Vancouver based officials was DAVE BROWN
(of interest, in 1972, Dave would referee the
 MUHAMMAD ALI - GEORGE CHUVALO bout held in Vancouver.

From my experience in the Eighties, five key names were
Bert Lowes, Fred Fuller, Howard Curling, Rick Brough and Ron Whalley,
but how could we not mention the many others
VIC MURDOCH, RUDY BIANCO, IAN GIBSON, SID KNOPP,
JACK MELLOR, JOE PRESTON, ALAN STOCKDALE and EARL VANCE.

but then back to the Fifties and remember
DUSTY MAIR, BOB EDWARDS,and LEN LIGHTFOOT. 

1984 INTERMEDIATE -  SENIOR OPEN GOLDEN GLOVES:

For the success of any tournment there needs to be more officials
 than just referees and judges.

REFEREES & JUDGES -
Bert Lowes, Fred Fuller, Rudy Bianco, Sid Knopp, Vic Murdoch,
Larry Carney, Earl Vance, Jack Mellor, Larry Krangle
Brian Zelley, Rick Brough and Bob Newbrook.

OTHERS:
Announcer - JOE SWIFT, Glovers: TOMMY YULE and GORDON MILLER,
Registration:  SHIRLEY KNOPP and MARG O'REILLY, Security: BILL LONG

GUEST VIP: - MP SVEND ROBINSON and Cable TV covered the bouts

FINALISTS -
Lee Gauthier, Bassam Btranni, John Wilsoin, Scott Bannink, Jamie Ballard,
George Pires, Ron Paskie, Derek Wolfe, Jerome Briat, Deep Butter, Gary Wood,
Willy Curry, Dale Walters, Hail King, Scott Cessford, Mike O'Connell, Joe Pendry,
Gika Singh, Ken Smith, Al Harper, Alex Angelomatis, Garry Serko, Tim Howie,
Cody Redford, Leon Chambers, Joe Martin, Dan Zaleski, and Tom Coady.















  

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.

  

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.