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.

1985 CANADIAN BOXING SENIOR NATIONALS

1985 SENIOR NATIONALS: by brian zelley

Introduction
In the June 1985 issue of the BC Amateur Boxing News
I prepared a three page report on the Senior Nationals starting
with the BC Amateur Boxing team then listing many
of the competitors from other provinces.

Then i started to summarize the results. So for this report
I will copy the details of that June 1985 story, then update
it with some bits and pieces so many years later.

BC BOXING TEAM
Augusto Dos Reis, John Henry Wilson, Tim Cessford,
Joe Pendry, Joe Martin, Andrew Riley, Terry Dermott,
Alex Bankier, Gary Serko, Wayne Welsh, and Brian Lansing.
Coaches: Ken Marjoram and Mike Sartori. Manager: Dave Thompson.

Some of the other Boxers: (note: excluding province and towns)
Steven D'Sousa, John Farinacci, Scotty Olson, Jeff Hill,
Steve Beaupre, Chuck Evans, Mark Menard, Fitzroy Solomon,
Asif Dar, Frank Sigmer, Steve Nolan, Mike Spiry, Robert McDonald,
Howard Grant, Bud Bird, Rod Simonds, Tom Walker, Tom Young,
Wayne Chandler, Greg Gayle, Otis Grant, Kelly Perlette,
Randal Thompson, Dan Sherry, Mario Therrien, Darryl Flint,
Vittoria Salvatore, Tops Florres, Claude Bouher, ken Serbu,
Bob Kwiatkowski, Bailey Heumer, michael Moffa, Jamie Pagendam,
Mark Lotus, Bill Downey, Phil Flamand, kevin Greely,
George Mason, Curtis Fidler, Isaac Lewis.

LIGHT-FLYWEIGHT
Victoria's AUGUSTO DOS REIS faced the tough SCOTTY OLSON
of Alberta. In 1984, Olson was the Junior light-flyweight champion.
In the selection of best junior for 1984 Olson was the best of eight
going into the final. His excellent performance over Quebec's
RENE CADRAN made him a strong choice. However, the picture
perfect performance by ERIC GRENIER ...made Grenier the top choice.
In the June 1984 issue of the BC AMATEUR BOXIG NEWS, I stated:

If the choice was limited to heart and determination
Alberta's Scotty Olson would be the top contender...

Olson defeated Dos Reis and won the 1985 senior championship by
defeating STEVE D'SOUSA of Quebec.

FLYWEIGHT
Astoria's TERRY DERMOTT lost out to JEFF HILL,
In the finals, Hill lost a 4/1 decision to STEVE BEAUPRE.


FEATHERWEIGHT
Vernon's JOHN HENRY WILLSON had an outstanding performance
in 1984 when he won an Intermediate National Championship. John
earned a spot on the BC Team with a win over classy boxer
RICK ALBRECHTSEN of williams Lake. This time John Henry
dropped a decision to Quebec's classy MICHEL MOFFA.
However, Moffa dropped a 4/1 decision to JAMIE PAGENDAM.
Back in 1984 when I spoke to Olympic boxer STEVE PAGENDAM
at the Canadian Olympic Team training site, Steve told me that
he had a brother who was better...Well Jamie is on his way with
his victory over Michel.

LIGHTWEIGHT
BC Team member ALEX BANKIER dropped a 5/0 decision to
STEVE NOLAN. In the final, Nolan lost to ASIF DAR
of Ontario who was named the 1985 OUTSTANDING FIGHTER.

LIGHT WELTERWEIGHT
parksville's TIM CESSFORD won his opening round, but
then lost to GREG GAYLE. In the finals Gayle defeated
Howard Grant.

WELTERWEIGHT
Kimberley's JOE PENDRY was in a division with two members
of the 1984 Olympic Team, WAYNE GORDON and DENNIS LAMBERT.
Lambert won his first bout then lost out toe DEWITH FRASER.
Pendry faced WAYNE GORDON and won a split decision. In the finals,
Pendry had to settle for a 3/2 split decision win over Dewith Fraser.

LIGHT MIDDLEWEIGHT
BC's GARY SERKO lost a decision to OTIS GRANT in the
semi-finals, then Grant stopped Alberta's KELLY PERLETTE.

MIDDLEWEIGHT
BC's JOE MARTIN defeated LINDON LINKLATER in his
first bout, but lost to National A team member DARRYL FLINT
In the finals, Flint was upset by DANNY SHERRY.

LIGHT-HEAVYWEIGHT
Kelowna's 1984 Canadian champion WAYNE WELSH started strong
by stopping his first opponent, but lost out to EGERTON MARCUS.
Marcus then defeated DANIEL DESROCHERS who had won the semi-finals
with a victory over National A team member KEN JOHNSON.

HEAVYWEIGHT
ANDREW RILEY was eliminated and then DOMENIC D'AMICO
won gold, Peter Petric silver, Bill Hickey and Wade Parsons bronze.

SUPER HEAVYWEIGHT
BRIAN LANSING of Elk Valley defeated his first opponent but
in the finals, he lost out to highly rated LENNOX LEWIS.

1985 THE CHAMPIONS

CANADIAN AMATER BOXING CHAMPIONSHIPS
SENIORS, march 29 to 31, 1965. Hosted by MEDICINE HAT BOXING CLUB.
Supported by Molson Alberta Brewery Ltd., marketing manager Jody Bishop.
Mayor of Medicine Hat: TEDD J. GRIMM.