- Flywights to Lightweights -
- By Brian W. Zelley
Over the years, Canada has produced some excellent boxers in the
lighter weight classes from flyweight to lightweight with such names
from GEORGE DIXON to ART HAFEY. from AL FORD to
TYRONE GARDINER and RICHARD (Kid) HOWARD,
then there was Buddy
Daye (see photo)
(photo from Nova Scotia Sports Hall of Fame)
Looking back through the Eighties and Nineties
from amateur and professional boxing
two names of interest are
SCOTTY OLSON and DALE WALTERS
and in the here and now of 2011
LOGAN MCGUINNESS and BENOIT GAUDET
VIC FOLEY, CHAMPION
Won the Canadian Bantamweight title in 1924, then fought
an eliminaton tournament for the featherweight title and
lost a controversial decsion to LEO (Kid) ROY in Montreal
Also, fought world Jr. Lightweight champion TOD MORGAN
in an exciting battle in Vancouver, BC in 1927.
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