Island Club Inductees BCABHF

The Island Club Inductees: by Brian Zelley

For year two of the British Columbia Amateur Boxing Hall of Fame, a club category was added with the first club selected was the Campbell River Eagles Boxing Club. The ather Nanaimo boxing club to be inducted was the Nanaimo Boxing Club.

Both clbs began in the early seventies and both have added much to the history of 
amateur boxing in the many decades. A number pf members or past members have earned their own place in the BCABHOF

A sample of names: Barry Creswell,  Bob Pegues,Brian Zelley, Clarke McLellan, Gary Wood, 
George Nepper, George Shiels,  Jack Snaith and Mickey Griffin and others.

                    brian Zelley and Clarke McLellan *** 1973
                                    Nanaimo Boxing Club

                     George Shiels, Campbell River Eagles

                            Nanaimo Boxing in the Seventies

   

 Bob Pegues

                                Brian Zelley's Boxing story.

                                 Alan Brown, boxing star

                                                Mickey Griffin

Brian's boxing photo parade

The photo is one of the first year photo of active 
members of the Newcastle boxing club formed
in 1963 by George Nepper.

The boxers from top to bottom are:
Leo Rock, Chris Balatti, Giles Nepper
Leon Nepper, Roger Nepper, Brian Zelley.
The photo was taken early 1964.

This photo was taken by the Nanaimo Daily Free Press
following the 1964 Vancouver Island Amateur Boxing
Championships.  Nanaimo champions were Brian and Giles.
brian is holding a special trophy named for the "Most Aggressive
Boxer" donated by former boxer and then coach
 Skimp Williams.

Photo cropped to show three of the Nanaimo boxers in late 1963 for a January 1964
boxing card in Victoria, BC hosted by the London Boxing club.

Newcastle Boxing Club:

a listing of some of the boxers.

Founding Coach: George Nepper
with boxers:
Terry Lewis, Bob Lewis, Brian Zellet
and Alan Windecker taken in the 1966/67 season.

George Nepper was inducted into the 
BC Amateur Boxing Hall of Fame
in 2013 along with others such as
Jack Snaith and Mickey Griffin.

Brian Zelley, front photo taken in 1967
before the 1967 BC Centennial Golden Glovez.

South Hill/Firefighters:
Freddy Fuller, Dick Findlay,
Dave Wylie, Brian Zelley, 
Gordie Lawson, Jim Walters,
John Gamble, Frankie Scott
and Lindy Lindmoser.










                          Parade of boxers and botldefs
                            South Hill/Firefightets Boxing
                                  Vancouver, BC

1967

1968

Brian Zelley and Neil Knight

Nanaimo Boxing Club

"The early years 1971 and 1972

 My last two fights took place in Nanaimo in 1972 and 1973.

A New Beginning ***** Victoria, BC

Ian Weir, Mike Caird, Brian Zelley

(courtesy ofthe

Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame).

Brian training Dan O'Sullivan 

in preparation of a boxing tournament.

Victoroa Athletic Association.

VAA formed in August 1976

replaced the old London Boxing Club.

The Eighties

1984 at burnaby; BC

Training site for Canada's

1984 Olympic Boxers

Nineties:

1989 to 1994

Brian was a Victoria  Commonwealth Games boxing committee member

from 1989 to January 1992, and seved on sports committee in 1991 as rge boxing chair.

In the early years Mike Sartori and Glynn Jones

also served on the committee, and Ian Weir brieflyin 1991.

2018

BCAmateur Boxing Hall of Fame

Inductees:
Barry Krangle, Bob Decker,Brian Zelley,

Clarke McLellan, DaveWylie,

Rudy Bianco, Wayne Boycea

and

2 Rivers Boxing Club

Island Inductees BCABHOF

BC Boxing Hall of Fame Island Inductees: by Brian Zelley

(Billy Townsend from the Nanaimo coal mines to a great boxing journey
facing some all time greats in professional boxing.)

The British Columbia Amateur Boxing Hall of Fame began in 2010 and by 2018 the hallhas compiled over 100 inductees including clubs and events. The two Island clubs inducted 
are the Campbell River Eagles and the Nanaimo Boxing clubs.

The names cover areas from Victoria to Gold River including inductees from 
Campbell River..

Some of the names include: George Nepper, Alan Brown, Brian Zelley, Don Orr jt.,  Eddie Haddad, Fred Desrosiers, Bert Wilkinson, Vic Murdoch, Gary and Steve Wood, Jack Snaith,
Clarke McLellan, Mickey Griffin. Rick Brough, Jeannine Garside, Teresa Taylor, and others.

Alan Brown * Vic Murdoch * Brian Zelley

The photo was taken in 1984 at the training centre in Burnaby, BC

which served as a training centre for the Canadian boxing Olympic team heading to Los Angeles.

                                                                    Bob Pegues. .
Bob began his ofgicial role in boxing in the early seventies in Nanaimo.
Currently, Bob is a boxing coach in Nanaimo.

George Nepper was the founder of the Newcastle Boxing Club in 1963.

George also assisted along with John Ormandy to help Brian Zelley and Dan Wright

start the Nanaimo Boxing Club in 1971.

Eddy Haddad began boxing in Manitoba but was a navy boxer in Greater Victoria during his glory years.

Rick boxed and coached and became connected to Island boxing as a member of the militsry.  

Rick was an outstanding ring ofgicial and Island commissioner and help start the Ladysmith Boxing Club in the mid eighties.

 Mickey Grifgin joined the Nanaimo boxing club in the early seventies and
managed to gather many trubutes and awards. Later he would turn to cosching in Nanaimo and Victoria.

Inductees Brian and Clarke pose after their bout in 1973.

 Brian Zelley and Clarke McLellan were recent 2018 Inductees.

 In addition to the club, three of the early coaches have been inducted: Charles, George and Jim.