My boxing story - zelley buzz

CANADIAN AMATEUR BOXING - PAST and PRESENT

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2009 to 2011, with 59 stories

2009 - 23 stories such as:
.The Maritime Boxing,
.Alberta Boxing - Then and Now,
.What Is Boxing,
.Vancouver Island Amateur Boxing.
.Training Centre and fade to black.

The Training Centre story is about the BC Boxing Training Centre
that was in Burnaby, BC. In the eighties, it would be the site of
the 1984 Junior Nationals and the OlympIc Box-offs, and a training site
for the 1984 and 1988 Canadian Olymnpic Boxing Teams of which a member
of both teams was Lennox Lewis. But,
it was also the site of many tournaments
from bronze gloves to golden gloves,from club shows to AGM gatherings.

2010 and 2011 would have a variety of stories such as the one in 2011
titled: Canadian Amateur Boxing Clubs

 

CANADIAN AMATEUR BOXING

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A close look at Canadian boxing 1980 to 1989

March 2010, it starts with a inside look at
the 1994 Commonwealthj Games in Victoria, BC, Canada.
For planning purposes, it all began in 1989 with the formation
of the Boxing Committee which would be part of the
Greater Victoria Commonwealth Games' Sports Committee.
The four folks to begin the journey were:
Hassan Sunderani, Brian Zelley, Mike Sartori and Glynn Jones.
The first step in the planning process would be to reach out to the
community for potential volunteers. This would all take place in 1990
but the real boxing action would not begin until the test event in 1993
and some of the boxers in the test matches would also be on
Canada's Commonwealth Games Boxing Team and the rest is history.

MAY 2011, NOTHING LASTS, FADE TO BLACK.
This is about an end of one boxing journey in January 1986.
It would be the last issue that I was editor of the
BC AMATEUR BOXING NEWS for all intent and purposes
it was the end of 23 years of my involvement in amateur boxing
in British Columbia, and I thought it was all over until the
call to be part of the Boxing Committee came along.
Between February 1986 and early 1989, the bright lights faded
to black, but that was the sport of boxing.

 

ONE YEAR and ANOTHER BOXING REVIVAL: 1974 GREATER VICTORIA

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There was no master plan to revive boxing in Nanaimo in 1971, and be part of the team to revive boxing in Greater Victoria in 1974, but in some ways they were all
stepping stones leading to 1984. Looking back the year 1964 was a starting point and 1984 was and ending point, so 1974 was on a symbolic basis the middle of theroad. But, 1984 was not the real end, just the end of one journey. But, the eventsleading to 1994 would be interesting but a great big challenge.

 

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A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE, but a work in progress.

One piece focused on the 1953 magazine "BOXING LIFE".
The latest piece is the 1963 BOXING ANNUAL
One of the most interesting articles was:
"The Bitter End Of the Brownsville Banger"
- a story about Georgie Small about ten years after
the death of his boxing friend LAVERN ROACH.

 

At the present time working on preparing stories on nominees for the 2012 British 'Columbia Amateur Boxing Hall of Fame e.g. Roger Adolph, Donnie Orr, Tony Duffy and Bert Lowes, plus others will be worked on over the coming months before the
deadline of June 30, 2012.

 

lol - A London, England born Pacific Northwest North American
living on an Island named after Captain Vancouver from the UK
and a city named after Queen Victoria.

 

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The latest update of this blog touches on the
1968 Seattle Golden Gloves/ Northwest AAU Championships

Three of the ten champions were:
Fraser Scott, Mike Colbert and Ray Lampkin

 

MY LOOK at BRITISH BOXING http://zellsbuzz.blogspot.com/

The latest addition was British boxer DAVE COVENTRY and some previous ones inlude the likes of Terry Spinks and Tony Sibson.

Two of the older posts include:
Super Seventies and Sizzling Sixties.

Various photos such as Terry Downs. Randy Turpin,
and Lennox Lewis to Ashley Sexton.

 

ANOTHER ROUND: THE CHAMPIONS.
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Only about Seventeen stories from June to October,
but covers a variety of topics and individuals:

."Boxing Champions Invade Canada",
.Look at Irish, Italian and Jewish boxers,
."The Clouting Canucks",
.Western Canadian Boxers e.g. Scotty Olson and Wilfie Greaves.
."The DONNIE POOLE BOXING STORY",
.CANADIAN WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPIONS -
Donato Paduano and Clyde Gray.:bbb:happy

 

i was going to get back into coaching at one of two clubs in Victoria.
One dropped boxing and is primarily promoting MMA and the other
moved location and I haven't been in touch with the coach since last
April or so. If I did likely wouldn't be a full time coach just a part timer.
We will see what happens.

However, there is no secret to my style of coaching, it is working on all
the basics to ensure excellence and then take it one step at a time.:happy

 

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MEETING MUHAMMAD ALI
Due to all the messages etc. flashing around
about who met MUHAMMAD ALI
when, wher, how and why, I have posted
an update to Zelley on Boxing
with a piece called MEETING MUHAMMAD ALI. :hi::happy

 

THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMATEUR BOXING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
A new story is to touch on the
Golden Age of Amateur Boxing (1939 to 1968).

THE 2012 JUNIOR and YOUTH CANADIAN NATIONALS
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FRESH NEW STORIES
Some fresh new stories at:
http://zelleyonboxing.blogspot.com/

*THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMATEUR BOXING 1939 to 1968
Covers history of amateur boxing in British Columbia
including some Portland, Seattle and Tacoma Golden Gloves
activity.:happy

*BEYOND THE GOLDEN YEARS, THE ROAD TO GLORY 1969 to 1984.
As of March 21, 2012 it is in the prelim stages. :hi::bbb