1984 CANADIAN SENIOR NATIONALS BOXING CHAMPIONSHIPS

1984 CANADIAN SENIOR BOXING CHAMPION: By Brian Zelley
Getting the names of the senior champions of 1984 is easy to
find, but what is a little more difficult is finding out how
each one made it into the finals and who they defeated to be
named Canadian Championm.

Those under the microscope of interest include:
Steve Beaupre, Billy Dunlop, Dale Walters, Steve Pagendam,
Sylvain Thibeault, Denis Lambert, Kelly Perlette, Lawrence Rolfe,
Rick Duff, Wayne Welsh, Wade Parsons and Lennox Lewis.

Of the 12 boxers, four were members of Team A:
Beaupre, Dunlop, Walters, and Lambert.
The three Team B members were Pagendam, Thibault and Lewis.
thr others were from the Provincial championships and box-off
action" Kelly Perlette and Rick Duff form Alberta
Rolfe and Welsh from British Columbia and Parsons from Nova Scotia.

STEVE BEAUPRE
Steve would face the winner of the Andre Charlebois
and John Farinacci bout. In the finals Beaupre earned
a unanimous decision over Charlebois to once again be a star.

BILLY DUNLOP
Billy would have to earn a win over Gaetan leclerc of Quebec to
face Ontario's Rick Ranelli in the finals of which Billy won.

DALE WALTERS
BC's Dale Walter would win a decision over Robert Fortuna of Ontario
before facing Daniel Paul of Quebec before facing. Paul defeated
B. Mitchell of Manitoba.

STEVE PAGENDAM
Pagendam would have to win over three boxers to earn the featherweight
championship. And, that he did with victories over T Haney, Stephen Nolan,
and Darren Kinequon of Saskatchewan.

SYLVAIN THIBEAULT
Like Steve, Sylvain needed three victories to call himself 1984
Canadian champion. He earned victories over l Blain, Brad Hortie
and Greg Gayle had defeated three opponents before facing
Sylvain for the title. Greg earned a decision over John Kalbhenn,
stopped Tom Barron then struggled to win a split decision over
BC's William Lake star Roger Laflamme. Roger had earned
a split decision over the tough George Mason of the Yukon.

DENIS LAMBERT
lambert earned victories over J. Dupe, Joe Pendry and Peter Britt
to be declared champion. Of importance was the semi-final with
Britt was injury related, so  Peter Britt would bounce back to engage
in subsequent Box-off competition.

KELLY PERLETTE
An interesting welterweight competition with Kelly stopping
two opponents to get into the finals to compete against
National A team Wayne Gordon. Gordon had earned
victories over STeve Frame and B. Leger. At the end of
three active rounds in the finals, Kelly earned a 4:1 split
over Nova Scotia's Gordon.
STEVE FRAME, OTTAWA BOXER

SUPER HEAVYWEIGHT FINAL
it was guaranteed to be an excellent fight after
LENNOX LEWIS and VERNON LINKLATER punched and boxed
their way into the finals. After three action packed rounds
it was young Lennox Lewis that would win the decision as the
first step in his Olympic Games journey.

THE CANADIAN AMATEUR CHAMPIONS 1980 to 1989

THE STORY OF THE CHAMPIONS by Brian Zelley

THE EIGHTIES:

Looking back between 1980 and 1989 there are many intereting
stories and the early ones include the likes of:
IAN CLYDE and JAMIE OLLENBERGER

BEYOND 1980 there was that interesting 1984 year

BEYOND 1980
There would be many interesting stories and events with a variety of
names from ASIF DAR, LENNOX LEWIS, DALE WALTERS and many others.

1982 Commonwealth Game
Willie DeWit and Shawn O'Sullivan, Gold
and Kevin mcDermott, bronze.

THE 1984 SENIOR BOX-OFF
A dozen boxers would arrive in Burnaby, BC in time for the actuob
that took place from May 25 to 27th. at the BCABA Training Centre.
Two of the boxers would have to engage in two bouts to determine which one
would be considered for the Olympic Team. In the first bout, the winner
between Canadian champion Dennis Lambert and Peter Britt was
Peter. However, to replace a champion required two wins, and in the
second bout Lambert pulled out the win and became a Olympic team
member.
Steve Pagendam would earn a decision over Stephen Nolan
to secure a spot on the team, along with John Kalbhenn and
Rick Duff. Shawn O'Sullivan would win over Lawrence Rolfe.
Alberta's RICK DUFF would get past Darrell Flint to
earn a shot. But, Manitoba's KEN JOHNSON would decision
BC's Wayne Welsh, the Canadian champion, but, Johnson would
not be selected for the Olympic Team for Los Angeles.

Then there would be the training camp in July 1984
with most of the 1984 Olympic team members, and some
of the other boxers such as Steve Beaupre
various coaches and officials such as Taylor Gordon.

1984 LA OLYMPIC MEDALS
Willie deWitt, Shawn O'Sullivan and Dale Walters

1985 SENIOR NATIONALS
The 1985 Senior Nationals would be very interesting.
There were some surprises with BC boxer Joe Pendry
winning the Canadian welterweight title, and two
boxers than were on the 1984 Olympic team were
defeated along before the finals.

Selected as best 1985 fighter was ASIF DAR.
Even back in his junior days, Asif was a classy
and winning boxer. In 1980 after punching his
way into the finals, he met Victoria's
Cliff Ballendine. Dar not only won the
fight in the Junior Nationals but was selected
as the best junior boxer in Canada.

1986 Commonwealth Games, Canadiam medals:
Scotty Olson, Steve Beaupre, Bill Downey, Asif Dar,
Howard Grant, John Shaw, Dan Sherry, Brent Kosolofski,
Dominic D'Amico and Lennox Lewis.

POST 1988 OLYMPIC GAME, OLD FACES AND THE NEW BREED
After the 1988 Olympic Games, some would turn pro like
Lennox Lewis, others would remain a couple more years,
and others would say goodbye. Then there were new faces
that had won titles in the juniors and youth boxing.

At the close of the Eighties some of the 1989 senior champions
would be and important part of the Nineties such as
MARK LEDUC and BILLY IRWIN.

A NINETIES MARK LEDUC MOMENT:

1980 THE VETERAN CHMPION IAN CLYDE
Of the 1980 champions, the most experienced one was IAN CLYDE.
Ian first won a senior title in 1973 and continued to be an active
champion until 1980. He had been in previous International
tournaments including the 1976 Olympic Games, but the team
of 1980 lost out on the chance to represent Canada in 1980
due to a political boycott of the USSR. Being the team
leader, Clyde took the difficult step to announce his
understanding of the decision by the Canadian Government.

Two of the other 1980 champions were returning
champions from 1979. Laurie Mann and Kevin
Howard. Boxer Jamie Ollenberger
had paid his dues in his early years of boxing,
but in 1980 he was one of the best and exciting
boxers from BC and he was 1980 BC Golden Boy.
Ollenberger would be a repeat BC Golden Boy
in 1981,then he would turn pro.

THE 1980 OLYMPIC BOXING TEAM MEMBERS
Ian Clyde, Stephen Nolan, Patrick Fennell and Ricky Anderson.

(Photo: Courtesy of Ian Clyde).

TREASURE CHEST OF GOLDEN MEMORIES
- from boxers, coaches, officials and fans -


brian zelley
There are many interesting moments, one of mine
was attending the 1984 Canadian Olympic Team
training centre experience in July, but
there were many others

(Photo: taken at the Olympic team training centre in July
in Burnaby, BC.) In the picture is Alan Brown,two time junior
national champion in the early eighties and former boxer and
an official Vic Murdoch, and Brian Zelley, then a director of
Boxing BC (BCABA).

A Few of the Asif Dar moments and memories.:

The above events are just two from Asif's fantastic treasure chest.

Thoughts from Ian Clyde

BC AMATEUR BOXING NEWS, October 1984

OCTOBER 1984: by Brian Zelley, editor

This would be the first issue of the 1984/1985 year
in amateur boxing with the main news being the AGM
of the BC Amateur Boxing Association
It took place on September 9th. in Burnaby, BC

Elected Board Members:
George Armson, Fred Fuller, Sid Knopp, Marg O'Reilly,
Larry Carney, Shirley Knopp, Bert Lowes, Brian Zelley,
Dave Thompson, Glynn Jones and Stan Smith.

Special Constitution Committee members:
George Armson, George Shiels and Cliff Ivers.

Special Reports
Dr. Raj Sandhu, Medical Report, and
Bill McAllister, BC Sports.

GOLD RIVER Event, July 19, 1984
guest boxer GREG JOHNSON from Ontario
performed some exhibition sparring in the Village Square
with Gold River boxer ALAN BROWN.

Photo Gallery
Throughout the issue there were numerous photos
including a boxing picture on the front cover
Scott Cessford and Kit Munro.
Others included:

Danny Thompson, Deep Butter, Brian Zelley, Darryl Olsen,
Stanley F. Smith, Jimmy Hunter, referee Vic Murdoch
refereeing a bout in Nanaimo, sparring with Alan Brown
and Greg Johnson, Brother O'Grady and Sixties boxer
Gary Van Buskirk at an Emerald Gloves event,
Jerry Shears, Champion Steve Beaupre, 1984 Canadian champion
Wayne Welsh, and Dorothy Runacres presentin a trophy to a
Nanaimo Boxer in the mid-Seventies.