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MISSION CITY BOXING CLUB - Fight Card - May 1, 2010
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by B. Zelley | May 2, 2010 at 08:39 pm
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MISSION CITY BOXING CLUB hosts fight card: By Brian W. Zelley
It was only two weeks after arriving back from the competition in the 2010 Golden Gloves and the Mission City Boxing Club was ready for more action with the staging of a amateur boxing card at the Leq'a mel Community Centre on May 1st. The main event featured JESSY BROWN vs LEV JACKSON, with Jessy winning **************************************************************************
LEV JACKSON was one of a number of boxers that travelled from the historical boxing club - the ASTORIA FRASER ARMS BOXING CLUB. The Astoria boxing Club has an interesting history that goes back to the mid-Sixties with WALTER BOYCE and some of the former members of Pat O'Reilly's Hastings Community Centre Boxing Club such as Wayne Boyce, Clint Page, Rick Fleck, Glen McGee and others.
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By the mid-Seventies, keys to the club changed hands when former members of the old North West Eagles Boxing Club with the late ELIO IUS stepping in as head coach and later others would run the show before moving from the old Astoria Hotel on Hasting's to the Fraser Arms Hotel location near Marine Drive in south Vancouver close to Richmond. **************************************************************************
Coaches for the Mission City Boxing Club are DALE GATIN, MATT BROWN & MARK PONTING. Funds raised from the boxing card are expected to help with the travel expenses to the "Ringside World Championships" in Kansas CIty, Mo. in AUGUST.
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BUCKSKIN GLOVES
The Seventh tournament on BC's "Road To Glory Tournament Series" will take place May 29th and will be called "Rumble 14" - BC BUCKSKIN GLOVES and will be hosted by the "2 Rivers Boxing Club of Quesnel, BC". It is expected that some of the nine boxers from the "Two Rivers" club that participated in the 2010 BC Golden Gloves in Langford's Eagle Ridge Community Centre will also see action in the Buckskin Gloves in front of the home town fans.
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at 23:22 on May 8th, 2010
One of the interesting bouts was a match featuring two junior boxers that had participated in the BC Golden Gloves in Langford. Acambell River boxer competing for the Nanaimo Boxing Club faced a Mission City boxer and earned the decision.
Of interest, in a local newspaper article in thew Campbell River region, the Nanaimo boxer outlined the basis of his victory was by studying his opponent warming up for the bout. In the warm-up, it was stated that the Mission Boxer was dropping his right hand when throwing left jabs. So he was open for left hooks. Interesting observation, but for open class senior boxers, a left hook may not be the right strategy.
Also, a win or loss in a club show is not the important outcome, the most important outcome would be what training steps the boxers take as they move forward to sharpen their positive skills and minimize the errors and negative procedures. High level performance will only come after years of training and competition with a wide range of opponents with different skills.