The Champion boxers

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                                          ...

2015 BCABHoF, Honourary Nominees

BCABHoF 2015 Proposed Honourary Inductees

BCABHoF 2015 Proposed Honourary Inductees: A special consideration for year six of the British ColumbiaBoxing Hall of Fame is the honourary/honorary inductee category.Five excellent names: Barney Ross, George Chuvalo, Jimmy McLarnin, Muhammed Ali and Rocky Marciano.This is expected to raise the acceptance and appreciation of theBritish Colu...

BCABHoF 2015 Proposed Honourary Inductees

BCABHoF 2015 Proposed Honourary Inductees: A special consideration for year six of the British ColumbiaBoxing Hall of Fame is the honourary/honorary inductee category.Five excellent names: Barney Ross, George Chuvalo, Jimmy McLarnin, Muhammed Ali and Rocky Marciano.This is expected to raise the acceptance and appreciation of theBritish Colu...

Canadian boxing wall of fame

"In This Corner - Boxing's little Giants" (Documentary)

Includes, Willie Pep, Roberto Duran, Benny Leonard, 
and Sugar Ray Robinson.

Other greats not included:

Jimmy Wilde, Eder Jofre, Tony Canzoneri,
Barney Ross, Jose Napoles, Emile Griffith,
Mickey Walker, Harry Greb, Stanley Ketchel,
Bob Fitzsimmons, Jack Johnson, Joe Louis,
and Cassius Clat/Muhammad Ali.

          Emile Griffith and Manuel "Manny" Gonzalez

"In This Corner - Boxing's little Giants" (Documentary)

Take a look at some all time greats such as
Benny Leonard, Henry Armstrong,
Willie Pep, Sugar Ray Robinson, Roberto Duran,
and more with narrative from some real boxing historians.


some other greats not included in the video:
Jimmy Wilde, Eder Jofre, Barney Ross, 
Tony Canzoneri, Jose Napoles, Emile Griffith,
Joe Louis, Bob Fitzsimmons, Archie Moore,
and Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali.

Emile Griffith and Manny Gonzalez 

GERONIMO BIE, A BOXING CHAMPION

GERONIMO BIE:
 road to the  BC aMATEUR bOXING hALL of fAME
by Brian Zelley

The Intro

Canadian amateur and professional boxing has a rich history with many 

champions including one that is not included in the above

parade of photos and that name is the one they  call

Geronimo Bie

By all account Geronimo should be

 an inductee for the +British Columbia and 

Canadian

Amateur Boxing Hall or Wall of Fame

but things do not always do as they should.

So over the next ten or so months

an effort will be made to get Geronimo Bie

nominated and selected  to the

BC Amateur Boxing Hall of Fame in 2015

Golden Moments and Memories

Various folks far and wide have 

positive memories of Geronimo

over time some of the positives 

will be added

Kai Yip" "He should be in the boxing Hall of Fame"

Boyd Bayne has nominated Geronimo

for the 2015 selection for the

BC Amateur Boxing Hall of Fame

JodyWadsworth:

"My prayers go out to Geronimo Bie. 

May GOD watch

over you and take you 

on the right path"

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Canadian boxing Wall of Fame 2013

Sixty Names On The Wall: by Brian Zelley

The following sixty have been selected for 2013

*************************************************************

Al Ford - Al Foreman - Al Sparks - Albert Belanger
Armand Savoie - Art Hafey - Arthur King - Asif Dar
Arturo Gatti - Billy Irwin - Billy McGrandle -
Billy Townsend - Blair Richardson - Bob Cleroux 
Bob Edgett - Burke Emery - Chris Clarke - Clyde Gray
Donato Paduano - Donny Lalonde - Donnie Poole
Rocky MacDougall - Gary Summerhays - George Chuvalo
George Dixon - George Godfrey - Gordon Wallace 
Hank Hartenberger - Herb Embuldeniya - Ian Clyde
Jack Delaney - Jackie Burke - Jackie Callura - Jerry Shears
Jimmy McLarnin - Johnny Coulon - Johnny Greco 
Larry Gains - Leslie Borden - Lennox Lewis - Lou Brouillard
Michael Strange - Nicky Furlano - Paul Hortie - Pop Foster
Ritchie Howard - Sam Langford - Sammy Luftspring
Scotty Olson - Tommy Burns - Tommy Paonessa 
Trevor Berbick - Troy Ross - Tyrone Gardiner  - Vic Foley
********** Wilf Greaves - Willie deWit - Yvon Durelle **********
Gregg Mac Ross    ************************  Lou Joshua Eisen
***********************************************************************

ART HAFEY

IAN CLYDE

                                         SCOTTY "Bulldog: OLSON

                         Donnie Poole -   Kris K. - George Chuvalo

Wallace Bud Smith

Wallace "Bud" Smith, Champion:  by Brian Zelley

*  Wallace is one of the many 

obscure champions that very

seldom is considered by fans

of boxing when they discuss

champions.

In many ways, it was not

until he became a tragic

boxer that he got his 

picture on the front of a 

boxing magazine.

That happened after his  
death he received  front
page notice and an article
by Jack Welsh that appeared
in the October 1973 issue of
"Boxing Illustrated".
The title read: "Obscure champ 'Bud' Smith Takes Final Count
In Cincy Shooting".  Mr. Welsh said it all in his opening line:
"Wallace 'Bud' Smith held the world's lightweight title 16 years
ago, and when it was gone, the Cincinnati-born fighter was the
epitome of a non-person."  Then Jack hit the readers between 
the eyes and hearts with the following comment:
"Bud's post-fighting activities found him wrapped in obscurity
as perhaps no man before him."

BEYOND 1973

Well, it was great that Wallace would get recognized, but it

was short lived as his name, his great amateur journey, and

his pro journey to a world championship was quickly forgotten

and he would continue to remain the lost obscure champion.

For 38 years he would remain an obscure champion,
but it was another error that would result in a major
discussion about him again in November 2011.  
It was a real "kick in the head" for the memory of 
Wallace Smith, when there was an HBO remembrance

of champions from Cincinnati, and the name                                         Wallace "Bud" Smith was nowhere to be found, 
so he was mentioned in some boxing site with 
a brief summary of his amateur and pro boxing story.

THE NEUTRAL CORNER LINK: About

About

1981 BOXING moments

the pages of "The RING" magazine: by brian zelley

Introduction:

Throughout the eighties there was a lot of action in the ring.  the following

is a look back at the magazine in 1981:

Champions listed by "The RING"

LARRY HOLMES,
MATHEW SAAD
MUHAMMAD,
MARVIN HAGLER,
AYUB KALULE,
RAY LEONARD,
AARON PRYOR,
Y.  UEHARA,
S. SANCHEZ,
W. GOMEZ, 
JEFF CHANDLER,
S. OGUMA.

California Moments:

California based boxers in the top ten:

Mike Weaver, Marty Monroe, Ken Norton,
Yaqui Lopez, Randy Shields, Pete Ranzany,
Bruce Curry, Monroe Brooks, Johnny Sato,
Frankie Baltazar, Ruben Castillo, Juan Meza,
Albert Davila, and  Oscar Muniz.

Canadians in the Commonwealth Ratings:

Trevor Berbick, Conroy Nelson, Eddie Melo,  
Gary Summerhayes, Wayne Caplette,
Fernand Marcotte, Chris Clarke,
Gaetan Hart, John Summerhayes, 
Nicky Furlano, Thomas Gourley, 
 and Leonard Pennock, 

Boxing results:
Of interest to Canadian fans and friends of
NICKY FURLANO, he is mentioned in the 
"Rings Around The World" section.

Nicky headlined a card in Niagara Falls.
* "Nicky Furlano won a unanimous decision
after a good action fight."
Also, on the card was Bobby Bland who 
stopped one Preston Jones in the 4th rd.

Ajax's Brandon Cook

DurhamRegion Article: Ajax's Brandon Cook ready for eighth professional fight

BRANDON COOK on the move:

GEORGE CHUVALO recognized in Toronto

http://www.680news.com/2013/03/25/mayor-ford-to-give-canadian-boxing-legend-george-chuvalo-key-to-the-city/

GEORGE CHUVALO, gets the key to the city

1980 to 1989 World Boxing Champions

THE CHAMPIONS 1980 to 1989: 

 By Brian Zelley

Introduction:

A brief look at the world champions

and some of the top title bouts in

the Eighties.

There were plenty of names to go 

around from heavyweights such as

Larry Holmes and Mike Tyson,  to many

others with some of the best being

Marvin Hagler, Roberto Duran, 

Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns.

But, there would be many other greats

or near greats such as:

Aaron Pryor, Salvador Sanchez,

Wilfredo Benitez, Alexis Arguello,Wilfredo Gomez, Michael Spinks,      Ray Mancini,  Barry McGuigan,and Julio Cesar Chavez.

Mike Tyson:

Of all the champions in the eighties, it was MIKE TYSON that appeare

to be the most controversial for some of his antics, but one would have

to look long and hard to find a fighting force like Tyson.  Mike began

his pro journey under the guidance of Cus D'Amato who had previously

guided Floyd Patterson and Jose Torres.

It would be November 22, 1986 when the power punching
Mike Tyson would fight for a piece of the world 
heavyweight title against  Trevor Berbick.  Well,

it came as no shock to many when Tyson stopped
Berbick early in the fight. After two knockdowns 
by power left hooks, referee Mills Lane  stopped the

slaughter to save Berbick and now Tyson was a partial
champion.  But, it  would be his March 7, 1987 12-round
 decision over "Bonecrusher" Smith that would make him
 an almost complete world  champion with the WBA and WBC

versions of the world heavyweight title but he would need
 to defeat the IBF title holder Tony Tucker  to become the
real deal in heavyweight history.  

And, once again Mike proved that he was not just a quick
knockout king but could also go the distance when he defeated 
Tucker in the 12-rounds on August 1, 1987.  

Throughout the rest of the eighties, "Mighty" Mike 
continued to win over various boxers such as
Tyrell Biggs,  Larry Holmes, Tony Tubbd,  
Michael Spinks, Frank Bruno and Carl Williams./

Other Names in the Eighties: 
*  Aside from the names previously mentioned there were
 some interesting  bouts by others. One was British  middleweight
Alan Minter who would win the title from Vito Antuofermo 
by a split decision in  Las Vegas.  

But, in a rematch with Vito later in the year in London, Minter would
eliminate any controversial decisions by stopping Antuofermo in 9 rds.
Before the year ended, Alan would lose the title to one of the best in 
the eighties by the name of Marvin Hagler.

* In 1980, tragedy would rear it's ugly head on September 19, 1980
when bantamweight champion Lupe Pintor  stopped Welsh boxer
Johnny Owen in Los Angeles.  

1920 to 1929, The Golden Age of Boxing

THE FORGOTTEN YEARS of BOXING: by Brian Zelley

The Roaring Twenties was a time of some of the greatest boxing,
but in the here and now of the 21st Century many boxing fans
minimize and overlook the greats of the Roaring Twenties.

One only has to look at the various polls of the modern age and
those champions  hare often overlooked in the listings or choices.
But, then again look at some of the champions of that era.

The Champions:
Heavyweight:  Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney. 

Light Heavy:  George Carpentier, Battling Siki, Mike McTighe,
Paul Berlenback, Jimmy Slattery, Tommy Loughran.

Middleweight: Mike O'Dowd, Johnny Wilson, Harry Greb, 
and Mickey Walker,

Welterweight: Jack Britton, Mickey Walker, Joe Dundee, 
 and Jackie Fields

Lightweights:  Benny Leonard, Rocky Kansas, Jimmy Goodrich,
and Sammy Mandell,.

Featherweight: Johnny Kilbane, Johnyy Dundee, Eugene Crique,
Steve Sullivan, Kid Kaplan, Benny Bass, Tony Canzoneri, 
Andre Routis and Bat Battalino.

Bantamweight: Joe Lynch, Pete Herman, Johnny Buff, Abe Goldstein,
Cannonball Martin, Charlie Rosenberg, Bud Taylor, Bushy Graham
and Panama Al Brown.

Flyweight:  Jimmy Wilde, Pncho Villa and others.

There were also a number of Jr. welterweight and lightweight 
champions many of which also won other titles such as:
Johnny Dundeek and Barney Ross,   But, one of the active 
champions was Todd Morgan  from the Pacific Northwest
who fought the likes of Vic Foley in Vancouver and Joe Glick
in New York.

BOXING in JANUARY

BOXING's JANUARY HAPPENINGS: 

 By Btian Zelley

Step back in time to February 1966

and in the black and white pages of
"Boxing Illustrated" and there was
an article by E. M. Orlick titled
"It Happened In January" that
covered many interesting moments
to take place in boxing during the 
month of January including
championship fights and various other interesting happenings
including the last professional fight of champion Fritzie Zivic
on January 17, 1949 with a ten round victory over Eddie Steele
in Georgia, and Virgil Akins victory over Tony DeMarco in
an elimination bout to fill the welterweight title left vacant by
Carmen Basilio.  

Some of the title fights included:
1932: Johnny Jadick wins a 10-rounder over Tony Canzoneri
to win the Jr. welterweight tiutle.
1939: Joe Louis stops light-heavyweight champion John Henry
Lewis to retain his heavyweight title.  
1964" Pone Kingpetch outpoints Fighting Harada to regain the
flyweight title. 

Beyond 1966:
1967:  Emile Griffith retains the middleweight title with a 
decision over Joey Archer.

1968:   Howard Winstone stops Mitsunori Seki in nine to
win a piece of the featherweight title and in the flyweight
division Chartchai Choinoi stops Efren Torres in Mexico.

1969: Bob Foster scores a first round win over
Frankie DePaula in light-heavyweight action, in featherwight
action it is Johnny Famechon over Jose Legra in London.*

The Seventies:

*Johnny Famechon would lead the charge in the Seventies 

with his victory over Fighting Harada in featherweight 

action in Tokyo, but there would be others to add some

magic moments to the Seventies.

* In action in 1972 was Joe Frazier and his stoppage of 

Terry Daniels, but in January 1973 it would be 

George Foreman who would win a sensational victory

over Smoking Joe with two rounds of destruction.

*But, there would be a lightweight destructive force

that would stop Jimmy Robertson in five at Panama City

and that would be in the person of Roberto Duran.  And,

fast forward to 1977 and it would be Carlos Palomino who 

would defeat Armando Muniz in Los Angeles action, but 

Roberto Duran would still be in action to stop one

Vilomar Fernandez  in 13 rds. at Miami Beach, and in 

1978 Duran would unify the lightweight title with a 

convincing win over Esteban deJesus in  Vegas.

*To close out the Seventies, Wilfred Benitez would

defeat Carlos Palomino in San Juan.

The Eighties:

* Some of the champions that would see action in one of the

January's of the  '80's would include middleweight champion
Marvin Hagler, jr. middleweight Wilfred Benitez,  lightweight
Arturo Frias. jr. middleweight Davey Moore  jr. lightweight
Roger Mayweather  and lightweight Ray Mancini.  By 1985,
there would be Donald Curry, Rocky Lockridge, with others
to follow such as Tim Witherspoon, Hilario Zapata, and the big
one in January 1988 with Mike Tyson over Larry Homes in four.
and to close out the last January in the Eighties it would be
Meldrick Taylor inaction

The Nineties:

*  It would be another new decade, and some of  the                                  January moments would include a cross-section of                                           new and old fighters . 

Carlos DeLeon,  Virgil Hill, Prince Charles William,  Luis Mendoza,

and many more such as IRAN BARKLEY  and MELDRICK TAYLOR.

Boxing's November ring classics

November Ring Moments: 

- by Brian Zelley.

The Fantastic Fifties:

*The month of November provided a few title fights around the globe.

For the west coast crowd, one of those bouts would feature one of 
their own ART "Golden Boy" ARAGON would face JIMMY CARTER
in a lightweight title fight in Los Angeles.  At the end of 15 rounds it
was the champion Carter who would get the decision in 1951.  In
November '53 Carter would go to another fighters home base, but
the results would be the same with Jimmy winning against the
Canadian ARMAND SAVOIE at Montreal.

On Nov. 1, '50, Islington's own TERRY ALLEN, the former world
flyweight champion would face the new champion DADO MARINO
for 15 rounds in Honolulu.  

*Then came a fight to remember when JOHNNY BRATTON faced
welterweight champion KID GAVILAN.  In  an earlier fight, Bratton
suffered a broken jaw, but that had no effect on his perfomance
on Friday the 13th , November '53 at the Chicago stadium.

*1/955 - CARMEN BASILIO, the new welterweight champion, would
give former champion TONY DEMARCO  a rematch in Boston
 and win by a stoppage in round 12.

1956 - FLOYD PATTERSON, the middleweight Olympic gold medalist
was now a heavyweight and would win the vacant title with a great
victory over light-heavyweight champion ARCHIE MOORE.

The Sizzling Sixties and the November happenings:

BANTAMWEIGHT BOXER from BRAZIL would set the stage

for the Sixties ring action when he held a piece of the 

bantamweight title with a victory over Eloy Sanchez in

November 22, 1960 in Los Angeles. And his name was

EDER JOFRE.  But, fast forward to 1964 and it was 
WILLIE PASTRANO winning big in Manchester, England
against TERRY DOWNES.  And, in November '65 the
old gave way to the new when heavyweight champion
MUHAMMAD (Cassius Clay) ALI defended his title
against fomrer two-time champ FLOYD PATTERSON.

There would be other good fights in that year with
Carols Ortiz over Ismael Laguna, and Fighting Harada
over Alan Rudkin. And in 1967, champion DICK TIGER
would stop ROGER ROUSE in a light=heavyweight bout.

November 1970:

Two important fights would kick-off November 1970:

CAROS MONZON stops NINO BENVENUTI and

JOE FRAZIER stops BOB FOSTER.

The Ground Level: the novice juniors.

*Far removed from the world champions such as 

MUHAMMAD ALI to EDER JOFRE,  are those 

amateur boxers at the ground level when many are

often in their first tournament such as that which took 

place on November 5th., 1983 at the Boxing BC

training centre in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

The tournament  was the 1983 Bronze Gloves for 

junior novice boxers.

Following the competition, the boxer to be selected as

the "Bronze Boy" was Queensborough Boxing club boxer

CLINT DUMAIS.  The runner-up as the best boxer was

from the Kingsway boxing club of Vancouver and his name

was MIKE MARRELLO, and the best bout was against

Daryl Dickson of Williams Lake vs David Slack of the

Langley/Aldergrove club.  One of the novice junior boxers

that 11 years later would be part of Canada's Commonwealth

Games boxing team would be ALLAN BAYNE.  Ringside officials

in that novice tournament would be:

Bert Lowes, Sid Knopp, Rudy Bianco, Larry Krangle, Brian Zelley,

Lindy Lindmoser, Jack Mellor, Vic Murdoch, Earl Vance and

Bob Necombe.

Back To The World Stage IN THE EIGHTIES:

It was just the previous month in October 1980 when a kegebd

fell and theat was when LARRY HOLMES stopped "The Greatest:

named MUHAMMAD ALI in 11 rounds.

But, for the champions and contenders, there would be many

interesting bouts throughout the eighties with the first big

name fight in November 1980 took place in New Orleans and

Sugar Ray Leonard would defeat Roberto Duran in a 

welterweight title fight and in a split title division of the

lightweights JIM WATT would stop SEAN O'GRADY and

HILMER KENTY would stop V. Fernandez. And, in 1981

MICHAEL SPINKS would stop VONZELL JOHNSON in the

light-heavyweight division. 

In November 1982, lightweight RAY MANCINI would stop

Duk Koo Kim in Les Vegas.  And has the decade continued

there would be others engaged such as MARVIN HAGLER  and

HECTOR CAMACHO.  And in the heavyweight division it was

LARRY HOLMES rolling along whn he stopped BONECRUSHER

SMITH in November 1984

BACK TO THE THIRTIES 

* But, we must travel back in time for see the legends of boxing in action.

In November 1930 TONY CANZONERI woudl defeat KID CHOCOLATE in

a lightweight bout in New York City while featherweight champion 

Bat Battalino was winning in Chicago.  An in 1933, it was light-heavyweight 

champion MAXIE ROSENBLOOM earning a victory over the aging 

MICKY WALKER.  To close out the thirties, it was 1939 when the great

BLLY CONN would outbox GUS LESNEVICH to retain the light-heavyweight

title