Good to hear that you are coaching. I agree with your commentbabyhuey wrote:i have zero interest in getting involved in usa boxing other then as a local boxing coach,
zelley, with all your knowlegde i would be nice to have you around again, even if its a local boxing coach, not every kid is going to make the olympic team, but every kid who works in the gym leaves with something they can fall back on later in life,
one of my first pee wees boxers joined the army and is fighting in afganistan right now,
he stays in contact and gives the boxing program credit for getting his life together and doing something hes proud of.
so ya, i leave the politics for the politicians, i do my thing with the kids.
"...but every kid who works in the gym leaves with something they can fall back on
later in life".
Looking back over the years in British Columbia, there have been some clubs that do an outstanding job with juniors and novices. Back in the Sixties, one of the best clubs
for junior boxers was the North West Eagles club in North Vancouver. For many years,
they hosted the Bronze Gloves tournament for junior novice boxers. Two of the
coaches that received the team trophy at the 1969 Emerald Gloves were Terry Cooke and the
late Elio Ius. Of interst, in 1972, Muhammed Ali, George Chuvalo, Manny Gonzalez and
Clyde Gray trained at the North West Eagles gym prior to their bouts in Vancouver.
In his bout with Chuvalo, Ali used the rope-a-dope strategy that he would later
use against George Foreman.
Following his victory over Manuel Gonzalez, Clyde Gray would move on to win
the British Commonwealth welterweight title with a victory ove Eddie Blay of Ghana
in 1973 and lose a 15 round decision to the smooth welterweight champ Jose Napoles.
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