A 2014 Boxing Diary

BOXING in 2014: by Brian Zelley

 * This will compile highlights of 2014 as the days roll on by.

 January 1, 2014
*Official announcement of the 2014 inductees into the
British Columbia Amateur Boxing Hall of Fame:

 Bert Wilkinson, Billy Townsend, Bob Pegues,  
Harry Twist, Jack Meda, Jamey Ballard, Jeff Yule,
 Jimmy McMillan, Kit Munro, William J. Finlay 

                                                                   Bert Wilkinson VI golden boy 1954



Jack Meda *** Canadian champion ***


 1994 Victoria Commonwealth Games boxing.


*Official announcement of inductees for the
Canadian Amateur Boxing Wall of Fame

The Maritimes
Billy Downey, Carroll Morgan, Dick McLean,
Phil Baraly, Randell Thompson, Ray Doiron

Quebec
Ariane Fortin, Arturo Gatti, Mike Moffa,
Matthew Hilton, Mikael Zewski, 

Ontario
Andrew Kooner, Adam Trupish, Mary Spencer,
Matt Mizerski, Steve Molitor

Western Canada
Bert Lowes, Eddie Haddad, Paul Hortie
Jimmy Walters, Doug Bolianatz 

Eddie Haddad


This  is an interesting way to start a one year diary.
Janûary 3rd.
January3 memorial  Brian Turnbull
a founding dirēctor
of the Victoria Athletic  Association 1976

,Memorial service BRIAN TURNBULL 

A Planned Event for January
https://www.facebook.com/abouttochangevancouver

Female boxing event to help homeless
women in Vancouver
January 30th.

Golden Gloves Expectations
The first show is in Tacoma
http://zelleyonboxing.blogspot.ca/2012/10/1969-tacoma-golden-gloves.html
Kenñy Lally is ezpected to part of the
Boxing BC team in February

http://nanbox63.blogspot.ca/
Nanaimo Boxing


 

The story looks  at the years   1963 to 1974

http://zelleyonchampions.blogspot.ca
Geronimo Bie - boxing champion
* a support story to have Bie  selected
BC Amateur boxing hall of fame in 2015


Geronimo Bie- top middle photo
others
Ron Whalley, George Nepper,
Vic Murdock. Derrick  Hoyt, Boyd Bayne

2014 BC GOLDEN GLOVES
http://zelleyonboxing.blogspot.ca/2014/02/2014-bc-golden-gloves.html
Above link will follow the 2014 story

March 1st. 2014
Tacoma Golden Gloves 
Alex Strickland
Jag Seehra and River Tucker, Champions
also in action
Jake Varga, Liam O'Brien and Gurinder Kabra
Coaches" Bob Pegues and Nathan Olsen
1963 Tacoma flashbacks

A follow-up Story
Revisting a story about 8 boxers that appeared in the 2012 London Olympics
Luke Campbell, Josh Taylor, Jose Ramirez, 
Paddy Barnes, Simon Kean
Mary Spencer and Savannah Marshall



 Great Unknown -  shot in the dark
March 5, 2014
Future additions to this 2014 diary is unknown - just a roll of the dice.


March 6, 2014
http://www.ranker.com/list/potential-nominees-2015-bcabhof/bzelley
Added above link
Potential nominees for 2015
e.g. Geronimo Bie, Ken MacDonald,
Alexander Scotty Jackson
Dale Gatin, Dave Habib, Howard Curling
Scott Galloway

Zelley On Boxing site: March 9, 2014
a new story added\about three builders of BC boxing named
Dale Gatin *** Dave Habib *** Scotty Jackson
as discussed they are three potential nominees for the
2015 BC Amateur Boxing Hall of Fame.

http://zelleyonboxing.blogspot.ca/2014/03/gatin-habib-and-jackson-builders.html

March 10, 2014 - A new blog begins
http://boxingsgoldenage.blogspot.ca
a blog to focus on 1939 to 1968
*the key to this time period is the annual
golden gloves tournament starting in 1939.

Counter Punch Boxing Club
Vernon, BC
to host BC vs Alberta card March 21 - 22, 2014
***boxers from the 2 Rivers boxing club have announced their hopes to compete
Dan Mott, Kyle Tessier, Haven Gillmaier, Olin Lee
From Prince George Jag Seehra is expected to see action
Host coach of CounterPunch *** Tony Stamboulieh\
Tony is also on the board of Boxing BC

March 23rd.
News of some of the results of the Vernon show
Dan Mott, Olin Lee and Jag Seehra earned wins
Alberta's Adam Trupish reports on the success 
of some of the boxers from Alberta.

A New Blog March 2014
http://bcboxingclubs.blogspot.ca/

Boxing Clubs of Canada

Updated Blog - The Champions
http://zelleyonchampions.blogspot.ca/2014_03_01_archive.html
video of some great champions including Robinson, Armstrong,
Willie Pep, Roberto Duran and Benny Leonard

added other names not included
Jimmy Wilde, Eder Jofre, Tony Canzoneri,
Barney Ross, Emile Griffith, Ali.

Emile Griffith  and Manuel Gonzalez

Updated Blogs - March 2014
http://zelleyonboxing.blogspot.ca/
* Phil Rose. Canadian boxer
* Gatin, Habib and Jackson
potential nominees as builders BCABHOF

http://nanbox63.blogspot.ca/

1. Nanaimo's Newcastle boxing club
2. One door closes, another opens

photos **** from 1966 to 1973 *** Brian Zelley






Canadian Boxing History
http://canbox.blogspot.ca/
 BC Amateur boxing hall of fame inductees
http://boxingbz.blogspot.ca/
April 6, 2014
Updated the Canadian boxing blogs



More updates to the Canadian boxing history blog.

Champion Beyond The Ring Wars
http://zelleyonboxing.blogspot.ca/
May 8, 2014 * story about Irish Pat Murphy
Pat  Murphy fought Canada's
Donato Paduano and Clyde Gray
In recent times Murphy was inducted into the
New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame

Action In Regina May 23 and 25th., 2014
Boxing Canada vs Team Wales
*two events provided a good tune-up
in preparation for the 
2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

For the Friday night it was all Canada vs Wales
with Canada winning seven bouts of ten 
Rodolfo Velasquez stepped in as an alternative
to face a top Welsh boxer. The bout ended in
a split decision for Wales, but it proved to
be a good match for Rodolfo
Three Canadian women boxers earning wins
were Ariane Fortin, Mandy Bujold and Caroline Veyre

Videos for June 2014


















Best Canadian Boxing Stories
* established July 1, 2014

July 4 th.

Firefighters Boxing Club












Another video in the mix
some boxers and builders


2014 Canadian 
Golden Gloes
* ready for action July 9th.

2013 tornament in Cornwall
was a well engaged show

Images from 2013






For 2014 there will be some
returning champions such as two
from British Columbia.
Alberta will have ten boxers expected
to compete including 
two women boxers.
 Special thanks to Raquel Ruiz
for her solid story telling for 2013.
And, pleased to see William Finlay
selected as a pioneer in the 
2014
BC Amateur Boxing Hall of Fame.



more 2013 faces

Waiting for the 
Commonwealth Games

More Videos
Canadian walls of fame




Wally Doern
and 
   2 Rivers boxing club




July 21, 2014
Three early bird nominees
BCABHof *** 2015

Alexander Scotty Jackson
Ken MacDonald
Geronimo Bie

Scotty Jackson

August 2014 videos:

Nanaimo boxing
1963 to 1974


4


Canadian Boxing
Golden  Memories



Canadian boxing narrative
in video images




The Final Videos
August 30, 2014

1990 to 2009
Canadian Boxing



BC Builders of Boxing


October 2014 Happenings:

 Two key events are taking place in BC:

 1. BC boxers prepare for the Nationals.

 2. BCABHoF begins process for
the 2015 selections.

 * there are eight regular nominees in
three categorues, and five potential
honourary inductees Barney Ross,
George Chuvalo, Jimmy McLarnin,
Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano.




Eddie Mulhern, pioneer







The eight regular nominees
Eddie Mulhern, Barry Creswell,
A. Scotty Jackson, John Skanks,
Geronimo Bie, Ken MacDonald,
Kenny Lally and Les Hamilton.

Honourary Inductees 2015
suggested
Barney Ross, Jimmy McLarnin,
Muhammad Ali,
George Chuvalo and Rocky Marciano

New Videos November 2014

Vancouver Island boxing


Brian Zelley's boxing story




























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