BC BOXING NEWS April 1985

BC AMATEUR BOXING NEWS, April 1985.  Brian Zelley, editor 


(Note - the two key areas to be covered were:  1985 Senior Nationals and
Flashbacks 1975 to 1979, club shows and other issues)


THE FRONT PAGE
On the front page were two photos:
Main photo:  Tim Hunter, Rick Brough and Mike Murray
(selected as the best bout in a Victoria Jaycees boxing card)
The other photo was boxer Dave Walter of Vancouver vs
Hamid Ismail of Ladner from the 1981 BC Golden Gloves.


CLUB SHOWS - March 1985


For Vancouver Island , it was three club shows:
March  9th.  Host Club, CROFTON
Heavyweight bout featured RON YOUNG  in a split decision
over JOHN HUNTER.

March 16th. Host Club, CAMPBELL RIVER
an interesting bout featured GARY WOOD  vs JACK SNAITH


March 24th. Host Club, VICTORIA JAYCEES
In the Jaycees card, Tim Hunter of Campbell River was picked as the
best boxer. Mike Murray vs Tim Hunter was the best bout.
The main event had KIT MUNRO over PAUL DELUCA.


TEAM BC - 1985 SENIOR NATIONALS
Boxers:  Augusto Dos Reos. John Henry Wilson, Tim Cessford,
Joe Pendry, Joe Martin, Andrew Riley, Terry Dermott, 
Alex Bankier, Gary Serko, Wayne Welsh and Brian Lansing.
Coaches: Ken Marjoram and Mike Sartori, Manager:  Dave Thompson.


OLD and NEW CLUBS


Some clubs highlighted were:
North West Eagles, East Vancouver Optimists
 and Astoria Boxing Clubs.


The EVO began in 1958 and operated until the early Seventies.
Two of the early persons involved were LARRY KRANGLE and JOHN WYLIE
The net two to operate the club were JOHN BALLAM and JIM WILSON.
There were other coaches and managers of the club such as Don Cowan, 
Fred Fuller, Stan smith and Earl Thompson.


A lot of young boers passed through the club from one club to another 
such as Dave Wylie,  Freddy Fuller and Colin Coleridge.  Two of the last
 boxers to represent the club were Joe and Lou Cooke.  And, of interest
for the 1967/1968 season Dick Findlay left the Vancouver Firefighters
and Les Vegas  left the London Boxing Club of Victoria to be part of the 
EVO experience. 

VANCOUVER ISLAND AMATEUR BOXING CHAMPIONS

PHOTOS:
1.rick brough and scott cessford
2. alan brown, vic murdoch and brian zelley
3. nanaimo's newcastle boxing club
4. list of champions

VANCOUVER ISLAND AMATEUR BOXING CHAMPIONS -
THE SELECT TWENTY: by Brian W Zelley

From 1964 to 2010, there are twenty Vancouver I sland boxers that have
earned the title of Vancouver Island boxing champion. This is their story.

Each one of the twenty boxer has a story from ALAN BROWN to WAYNE POWELL,
also their various clubs have a story
from the Gold River and Campbell River Eagles Boxing Clubs
to the Parksville, Nanaimo, Crofton and Victoria Boxing Clubs, and
the military boxers such as RIFLEMAN WALSH and WAYNE POWELL.

In 1964, it was Nanaimo's Newcastle Boxing Club with champions
BRIAN ZELLEY and GILLES NEPPER, and in 1984 it was the
Nanaimo Boxing Club with MIKE MURRAY and the Parksville club
with the CESSFORD brothers and DEAN MACDONALD and
the Campbell River club with GARY WOOD.
ALAN BROWN began with the Campbell River Eagles until his
father MONTY BROWN started the GOLD RIVER BOXING CLUB.

Beyond the boxers, there were a number of coaches and officials.
such as SKIMP WILLIAMS and TAYLOR GORDON in 1964 and the likes
of RICK BROUGH and HOWARD CURLING in 1984.

And then there was the host of the 1964 Championships, Victoria's
LONDON BOXING CLUB under the direction of HARRY MORRIS
and who could forget their Island champions
HOWIE RABEY, KEN ALEXANDER and TOMMY BLACK

Tommy Black
Tommy fought in Victoria long before the formation of the
LONDON BOXING CLUB. In 1960, Tommy was one of three
Vancouver Island boxers to win in the 1960 BC Golden Gloves
in Vancouver. in the 1964 Championships Black faced the heavy hitting
navy boxer FRED DESROSIERS and outboxed him to win the title, but when it came time for the selection of the 1964 Canadian Olympic Boxing team, it would be Fred that would earn a spot over the best of Canadian boxers in his division.

1964 to 1984 - The Link

The idea of reviving the 1964 Vancouver Island Boxing Championships twenty years later began in earnest in 1983
with a combined coaches and officials meeting. The three officials involved were former Island Commissioner
HOWARD CURLING, the Island Commissioner RICK BROUGH, and BCABA director and 1964 Champion B. Zelley.
Along with the various coaches, a preliminary step was to have the VANCOUVER ISLAND NEWS with a 1983 spring and fall issue. Also, official BOB PERRY joined in.