CALIFORNIA BOXING: by Brian Zelley

 A Look At California Boxers of 1980  - 1982, and 1971

 1980's : Ken Norton, Marty Monroe,  Mike Weaver,  Randy Shields, Monroe Brooks,  Art Frias, Gonzallo Montellane, Bobby Chacon, Johnny Sato, Ruben Castillo, Jaime Garza,   Juan Meza, Albert Davilla, Oscar Muniz,   Pete Ranzany, Roberto Elizondo,  Yaqui Lopez,  Bruce Curry,   Frankie Baltazar,  Joey Olive,                                                                                                                                                                                                                       1971:  Jerry Quarry, George Foreman, Mac Foster, Mike Quarry, Eddie Jones, Armando Muniz,  Thurman Durden,  Nate Robinson, Jimmy Robertson, Mando Ramos, Ruben Navarro,  Frankie Crawford, Jose Herrera, Jesus Pimentel,                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Boxing Setbacks in 2020: by Brian Zelley

 Covid 19 is a staggering Blow for boxing and other sports, but despite the setbacks there have been some positives including the revival of amateur boxing by the Nanamo Boxing Club.  Coach Barry Creswell has retired, but the club has been revived with four new coaches. At the end of August 2021, the club will reach the completion of 50 years since the formation in 1971 by Brian Zelley and Dan Wright, with help from George Nepper and John Ormandy

(photo of Nanaimo Boxing Club in the early years along with coach Clarke McLellan).

Tommy vs Brian, our last fights

Talk Is Sometimes Twisted:

Brian's last fight vs Clark 

                                                                Tommy's last fight
                                                                 Tommy vs Jerry

Appetite for boxing still alive in Nanaimo

Appetite for boxing still alive in Nanaimo

Well the return of Racette to pro boxing did not happen
due to health concerns prior to the event.

Will this cancellation  help in future promotions, when the big reason  about a 1,000 folks attended
the event to see Gordie's return to pro boxing?  At this stage it is difficult to tell, but  they may have another promotion in the future, but without local stars, it may be a stretch to expect a 1,000 folks to go see
names of folks they have no real connection to.

1963 to 2009 Boxing Nanaimo, BC, Canada

Kenny Lally Fights His Way To Gold Medal Matchup

Terry Allen - Boxer

Terry Allen - Boxer

The Forgotten Boxing Champions: Introduction to Forgotten Boxing Champions

The Forgotten Boxing Champions: Introduction to Forgotten Boxing Champions: The Forgotten Champions: byBrian Zelley * Review any old boxing magazine or read any old boxing poll and some past champions often ge...

Paul Pender

Curtis Cokes

Randy Turpin

Wallace "Bud" Smith

ErnieTerrell

Terry Downes

The Forgotten Boxing Champions: Denny Moyer - light-middleweight champion

The Forgotten Boxing Champions: Denny Moyer - light-middleweight champion: Denny Moyer, a forgotten champion: by. Brian Zelley Denny Moyer -    Ring record per Box Rec  

                                       ...

Lost on the boxing highway

Through my eyes by Brian Zelley

The above photo is symbolic

but real.

Two worlds that are far apart

never to be joined

The boxing world

vs

Education

and being a

professional accountant

* the following video tells a blended story
 starting in  1963. It covers boxing 
moments including support for the
"British Columbia Amateur Boxing
Hall of Fame" that was talked about
in 1984, but it remained 
"lost on the the boxing highway" 
until it became a reality in 2010.





Who can say if the Hall of Fame is a
good idea, but it does appear to please many.

Ringside BC, the eighties

BC Amateur Boxing -"the Eighties"

* the video includes some if the eightie personalities, 
but there were many more as boxers, coaches
and ring officials.

Boxing BC directors 1983/84

George Armson, Bill Long, Sid Knopp,
Marg O'Reilly, Larry Carney, 
Shirley Knopp, Bert Lowes, Glynn Jones,
Brian Zelley and Dave Thompson.
(part term director: Bob Decker.)




84/85  Board:
George Armson,   Fred Fuller, Sid Knopp,
Bing Bakkan, Marg O'Reilly, Bert Lowes,
Stan Smith, Glynn Jones, Brian Zelley,
Dave Thompson and Shirley Knopp.

Board elected September 1985:

George Armson, Sid Knopp, Larry Krangle,

Bing Bakkan, Marg O'Reilly, Jean Bayne,

Bert Lowes, Larry Carney, Brian Zelley,

Dave Thompson, and Terry Copeland.

great boxing images

Canadian boxing random images

Brian's Boxing Journey

Photo parade:

Brian's Search for Canadian boxers in Glasgow's Commonwealth Games

The Road To and At the Commonwealth
Games in Glasgow - 2014:
By Brian Zelley

Boxing Canada selects team

The Boxers

Ariane Fortin, Mandy Bujold 

Samir El Mais - 2010 games

Custio Clayton, Samir El Mais,

David Gauthier, Brody Blair, and

Arthur Biarslanov

Brody Blair

Boxers Clayton and El Mais

were in the 2010 Game

*Coaching duties:

 Daniel Trepanier and Kevin Howard.

Brian's Boxing Journey (+playlist)

BC AMATEUR BOXING NEWS, February 1985

FEBRUARY 1985 NEWS: By Brian Zelley
*Eight pages of news, flashback, and rules

The Front Cover
The front cover of the news featured two photos including:
1/  Current photo of boxers Ray Abraham and Jim Hunter.
2/  A 1976 photo by Sean Flynn that featured boxers
John Millar of Hastings vs Scott Buchan in a show in Victoria
at the Quadra Recreation Centre.

Page 2:  The Harold Mann Award Winners 1971 to 1984
* this is listed as  an award that was presented by the Premier
of British Columbia, the Right Honourable W.A.C. Bennet in 1971
Awarded annually  to a non amateur boxer nomination who has
greatly contributed to the betterment of amateur boxing  in the province.

BC BOXING NEWS, December 1984/January 1985

BC BOXING, The Winter of '84/'85:  by Brian Zelley
(Bert Lowes, Stan Smith, Dan Wright, Ron Whalley, Alan Brown,
Vic Murdoch, Brian Zelley, Rick Brough and boxer in 1978)

This issue of the "Boxing News" would cover the 1984 Emerald and
Silver Gloves tournaments, and a couple of club shows. But, would
also cover Zone boxing trials in Gold River for the purpose of 
finalizing the zone team for the 1985 BC Winter Games.  That 
Gold River Boxing Club hosted show would also include some
special bouts that would include four open competition bouts,
and five box-offs to determine the Vancouver Island team.
The pre-publicity reported in the Gold River newspaper would
include a photo of home town boxing star Alan Brown.   Selected 

to be the team coaches were Monty Brown and Mike Sartori.

* Featured in club profiles was the Elk Valley Boxing with
reference to boxers such as Lee Gauthier AND Curtis Peterson.

GOLDEN FLASHBACKS
* Included was a detailed list of  past and present ring officials
* The 1973 Trip to England for junior boxers, and a 1976
International tournament  featuring boxers from BC, 
Washington State and Japan.

* Another major story was the reprinting " Victoeia Times"
sports reporter Max Low and his pre-1980 publicity for the revival of theDiamond Belt, and some history of the 1967 and 1968 Diamond Belt tournaments with reference to some of the boxers.

*The back page featured photos relating to the 1954 Vancouver Island Golden Gloves tournament and photos of Bert Wilkinson, Paul Calvie, Fred Curtis  and a group photo of Vancouver boxer Dave Errington
and his father and trainer Jack Prost.

THE RING OFFICIALS: 
Jim Allen, George Anderson, George Armson, Steve Barnes, Paul Bartlet, Bill Bascoe,
Rudy Bianco, Tom Blair, Dave Boyd, Bernie Brisch,  Rick Brough, Dave Brown, 
Paul Carne, Larry Carney, Bob Chambers, Debbie Clarke,  Joe Cooke, Bill Cowie,
Tom Crabbe, Jim Crook, Howard Curling, Barney Deslaurier, Bert Devrill, Bill Donnelly,
Terry Eastman, Bob Edwards, Dick Findlay, Ernie Forsyth, Fred Fuller, Freddy Fuller,
Jim Gallagher, Ian Gibson, Ed Gilmore, Harry Gold, Bill Gurvich, Jim Hardie, Shirley Hibbert
Tommy Hibbert, Derrick Hoyt, Dick Huber, Raj Jaswal, Art Jones, Tom Key, Shirley & Sid Knopp,  Larry Krangle, Thorky Larsen, Pickey Lee, Donna Lemay, Len Lightfoot, Lindy Lindmoser,Bill Long, Bert Lowes, Dot Lowes, John McCrae, Al McKinnon, Sid McKnight, Sam McLarin, Scotty McQueen, Dusty Mair, Jim Marshall, Nick Martin, Kurt Max, Roy Maycock, Jack Mellor, Jim Miller, Jeff Miller, Vic Murdoch, Peter Murray-Driver,  Peter Nelson, Bob Newbrook,  Mike Nicks, John Nolan, Bro. O'Grady, Jack O'Hanley, Marg O[Reilly, Tommy Paonessa, Joe Pendry, Sid Greenwood, Bob Perry, Jack Pidgeon, Doug Powell,Joe Preston, Eric Pyray, Gordie Rabey, Len Robertson, Fred Ryckerman, Carson Samuels,Bob Seckler, Abe Seriani,  Frank Seriani, Rennie Serriani, Art Shiels, Peter Schultz, Bob Smith, Stan Smith, Alan Stockdale, George Swanson, Joe Swift, Tom Turnbull, Lorne Turner, Alan Tummon, Earl Vance, Gary Wallace, Jack Walters, Billy Watson, Jerry Weicker, Ian Weir,Ron Whalley, Bud Williams, Skimp Williams, Jim Wilson, Henry Wolf,  Dan Wright, Dave Wylie,Al Young, Tommy Yule, Brian Zelley.
(Note: there were others after 1985, and many before the fifties that have
not been named, but the above list represents a good body of officials
that enable the progress of boxing club cards and tournaments to move
forward to ensure positive events and safety of the boxers.)

BC Amateur Boxing Hall of Fame - 2013 nominees and 2010 to 2012 inductees

SIX OF THE 30 NOMINEES
for the 2013 Selection:
Ron Whalley, builder
Geronimo Bie, boxer
George Nepper, builder
Vic Murdoch, builder
Boyd Bayne, builder

Six More 2013 Nominees:
Mickey Griffin, Junior/Youth
Gordie Lawson, boxer
Wally Doern, builder
Stan Smith, builder
Ian Gibson, builder
Sid McKnight, boxer

Mickey Griffin
Cliff Ballendine
Scott Banninck
Troy Banninck
Jamie Ballard

Jeannine Garside
Teresa Taylor
Linda Gigliotti
Betty Clark
Gary Wood
Derrick Hoyt
Jack Snaith
Geronimo Bie
Gordie Lawson
Steve Noel
Sid McNight



Builders of Amateur Boxing in British Columbia:
Ron Whalley, Jim Gallagher, Jim Howie, Vic Murdoch, 
Ian Gibson, Stan Smith, Ed Williams, Dick St. Louis,
Ralph Galloway, George Nepper, Boyd Bayne, 
Todd Alain and Wally Doern.

VIC MURDOCH
TERESA TAYLOR
GORDIE LAWSON
GARY WOOD
JIM HOWIE
RALPH GALLOWAY
SID MCKNIGHT
JACK SNAITH

BC BOXING NEWS, November 1984

BC BOXING NEWS November 1984: by brian zelley, editor

This issue included two tournaments, a club show in Campbell River
and lots of other news and views including flashbacks some detail
concerning the "Jimmy Syme Award Winners" including the one for 

the 1983/84 season TONY FRANCIS.

* Folks that were recognized for contributing to this issue:
Marg O'Reilley, Shirley Knopp, Shirley Jones, Dorothy Zelley,
Glynn Jones, George Shiels, Ainslie Frame (Ottawa) and
Jerry Shears (Montreal), also a picture of  the CABA president
Herb Embuldeniya was icluded:

Photo parade: some of the photos
*Neil Austin, Barry Dolan (Ontario),
Coach Charles John working the corner,
Action photo by Stephen R. Faubert
of the "Upper islander" with a  the
headline: "Neil Bordeleau is jubilant
over winning his bout", Suraj Jaswal,
photo from Ainslie Frame featureing
Frank Rodriguez, Denis Bradley and A. Teodorescu posing for a
group shop at the 1984 Junior Nationals, and on the back cover
was some great shots of boxer  Gordon jones posting with
alderman Don MacTavish with the Jimmy Syme  trophy.,
a picture of Dan Wright shadow boxing from the "Sprtcaster"
November  27, 1974, and  a photos of Canadian champion
Ian Clyde posing with the great Archie Moore, the caption
read "Friendly Archie Moore, June 18, 1972".

COMPETITITION in October 1984:

BRONZE GLOWES, novice junior boxer, October 20th.

*Boxers: Mark Rodgers, Craig Hass, Tyler Piddocke, Oscar Carreira,

David Slack, Graham Walton, Chad Kray, Ben Frecht, Byron Ritchie,

Stewart Brown, Chris Hunter, Dean Townsend, Cam Marbry,

Kevin Blatter, Curt Lowe, Shane McLean, Larry Barber, Donny Jay,

jason Mead, Leon Angers, Dean McDonald, Jason Broad, Bruce Slack,

Ricky Funk, Trent Storey, Larry Rose, Cas McRea, Pat Soderholm,

Shane Morin, Ken Jay, Fred Loewen, Herman Frische, Bruce McDonald,

Mike Margetts, Dean Kerpin, James Muir, and Tom Small.

Bronze Boy: Tyler Piddocke  (Spruce Capital, Prince George)  

B B Runner-up: Trent Storey (Gold River Boxing club) 

Best Bout: Kevin Blatter (Maple Ridge) vs Curt Lowe (Hasstings).
Top clubs and Coach:
1 Gold River (Monty Brown), 2. Maple Ridge (Wall Hill) and
3. Hastings CC (Michael O'Reilly). 

1984 Senior and Intermediate Novice tournament, October 21st.

Boxers:

Mike Primead, Terry Dermott, Darryl Storzuk, Mike Murray, 

Eddie Lee, Ralph Torrie, Rick Davie, Donald Mayes, Jason Trottier,

Randy Scott, Tonka Young, Dean Bohm, Ron Ogden, John Millens,

Larry Dill, Rob Howe, G. Grewal, James Berg, R. Des Ormeaux,

David Treharne, Olaf Van Berkel, Ian Middleditch, Mike York,

Dan Cochlan, and Barrie Howardson.

Best Intermediate: Jason Trottier (Burnaby)

 Best senior: Darryl Storuk (Ladner)

Club Show: Campbell River Eagles, October 27, 1984

* A 15-bout card featuring the following Clubs:

Campbell River, Gold River, Parksville, Astoria, Sunshine,

Comox, Anacortes, Olympia, and Tacoma.

Best Bout: Jim Hunter vs. Ray Abraham

*After two tournaments: The top ranking clubs:

1. Hastings, 2. Gold River, 3. Victoria jaycees, 4. Burnaby.

Special Awards for Campbell River Boxers:

MIKE MARGETTS, Rookie of the Year.
GARY WOOD, Athlete of the Year.

Flashbacks:

Reprint from the "Leisure Times" magazine was a brief history

 of amateur boxing on Vancouver Island published prior to the

1984 Vancouver Island Boxing Championships and covered

boxing from 1954 to 1984 and some of the other Island tournaments.

Boxing Profile: DAN WRIGHT

* The story followed his boxing journey from the Vancouver

Firefighters to the Nanaimo Boxing Club, a brief period with

the North West Eagles. and on to Victoria and then back to

Nanaimo.  In the mid-eighties, Dan turned to officiating and

participated at the 1985 Diamond Belt tournament 

                     Dan Wright, 2009 photo op at Greater Victoria

                         Sports Hall of Fame Induction ceremony.

                                            (photo by Dorothy Zelley)