PAN AM GAMES

CANADIAN PAN AM GAMES BOXING:
PAST and PRESENT CANADIAN BOXING
by brian zelley

As Canadian boxers prepare to participate
in the 2011 Pan Am Games in Mexico, it is
a good time to flashback to past tournaments
to touch on the history and the acnievements
of the many boxers such as 1975 Gold medal
winner Chris Clarke. One of the 2011 boxers
that hopes to follow in the footsteps of Clarke
will be BRODY BLAIR.

FLASHBACKS 1967
As we look back one of the teams was the
1967 team including Walter Henry, Frank Scott,
Wayne Boyce, Gerald Ratte, Dick Findlay,
Freddy Fuller, Donato Paduano and Marijan Kolar.

CHAMPIONS

alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401071431458028594" />

CHAMPIONS & CONTENDERS

1969 was the dawn of a new age in Canadian Amateur Boxing when after the formation of the
Canadian Amateur Boxing Associations, But, some of the champions and contenders of pre-1969
would be there to earn National Championships beyond 1968.

Old champions like Wayne Boyce, Dick Findlay, Donato Paduano and Billy Taylor just faded away
while the likes of Jack Meda. Frank Scott, Walter Henry, Fred Fuller, Darryl Olsen & Pat O'Reilly came back to
fight another day and another few rounds and were joined by new faces on the senior Nationals scene such as Ian Clyde
and Jack Snaith between 1969 and 1973 (the first five years of a new beginning).