TORONTO (September 15, 2011) – With all due respect to the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens, the long, rich arch-rivalry in sports between Ontario and Quebec is, perhaps, more prevalent today in boxing than even hockey.
The aforementioned rivalry heats up October 22 at The Hersey Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, when unbeaten World Boxing Association (“WBA”) No. 11-rated Logan Cotton McGuinness, of Ontario, takes on and former world title challenger Benoit Gaudet, of Quebec, in the 10-round main event on a card presented by Hennessy Sports in association with Interbox and United Promotions.
The adversarial provincial competition continues November 5 at Pepsi Coliseum in Quebec as two-time world champion Steve “The Canadian Kid” Molitor (33-2, 12 KOs), of Ontario, faces Sebastian Gauthier (21-2, 13 KOs), of Quebec, in the co-feature on the Lucian Bute-Glen Johnson card, presented by Interbox.
“The cross-provincial rivalry between Ontario and Quebec is intense in all sports,” promoter Adam Harris (Hennessy Sports) said. “Canada’s rich boxing history is keeping this rivalry going strong today. From Ontario’s Lennox Lewis, George Chuvalo and Tommy Burns, to Quebec’s Arturo Gatti, Lucan Bute and Jean Pascal, both provinces have had so many great boxers over the years, right up to now. We’re proud to be continuing this heated boxing rivalry with McGuiness fighting Gaudet.” Read More
(Monday July 25, 2001) MISSISSAUGA, ON – Former Canadian Heavyweight champion, who has never been off his feet both in and out of the boxing Ring, will be making his annual visit to HUF GYM Thursday July 28th, at 2pm. The annual camp will be celebrating 10 years and closing with a free BBQ and live amateur boxing card, sanctioned by Boxing Ontario.
Children have been attending Monday-Thursday from 1pm-4pm since July 4th and participating in various activities including Boxing, Soccer, Basketball, Fight Night video game, and Lots of fun!
Sister’s Teresa and Olga know it’s important to instil good habits at an early age.
“Training youth on the benefits of physical activity and healthy eating is just part of it,” says Olga, Program Coordinator. Read More
Chuvalo Awarded with
Honorary Lifetime Championship
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L to R - George Doiron, George Chuvalo & Don Collette
CPBC Press Release: This past weekend, May 27-28, George Chuvalo was in Moncton, New Brunswick, to discuss the dangers of drug and substance abuse. The event was promoted by Eloquent One Promotions and was kicked off with a meet and greet at the Sports Rock Bar and Restaurant in Dieppe on May 27. George shook hands, chatted with admirers and signed autographs for an hour before dinner was served at 6:30 pm. When the meal was served the restaurant was absolutely jammed with fans and well wishers, illustrating the impact Chuvalo has had on many of Greater Moncton’s residents. Read More
(Thursday February 3, 2011) Tonight at the Molson Centre in Barrie, Ontario, Wild Card Promotions held the final press conference for tomorrow evenings “Super Brawl” card. Rick Smiciklas of Wild Card Promotions has done everything possible to make this an exciting and crowd pleasing event and deserves a lot of credit. In addition Rick gave everybody praise for helping him to put together the card. Also in attendance was the legendary former Canadian Heavyweight champion George Chuvalo.
The Boxing Examiner.com was on hand to get quotes from each of the fighters in the main an co-main events.
First to take the microphone was Ray “Mount Kilimanjaro” Olubowale(8-4-1, 5KO’s) who has no love lost for his opponent from Edmonton, Tye “Big Sky” Fields (44-2, 40KO’s). Fields questioned Olubowale’s courage and heart for having to pull out of their previously scheduled match last year due to a cut received during training. This angered Olubowale who went on to state:
“I have taken him very seriously all along and was not taking a chance going into that fight with a cut so I pulled myself out of the fight. I have never turned down a fight in my life! All the talk of me being a chicken . . . it boils my blood and this is going to be my redemption!” Read More
Concord, ON – Inside the entertaining ‘Dave and Buster’s’ franchise, WCP founder Rick Smiciklas held a press conference confirming the upcoming card for “Super Brawl,” now just weeks away. The head table was stacked with some of Canada’s well-known boxing personalities including the legendary George Chuvalo, current Canadian Boxing Federation (CBF) heavyweight champion Neven Pajkic, former CBF and Commonwealth cruiserweight champion Troy Ross and former CBF heavyweight king Ray Olubowale. UFC fighters Sean Pierson and Claude Patrick were seated alongside their boxing counterparts, showing moral support for their pugilistic brethren.
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Smiciklas opened the floor confirming the final draft for this highly anticipated event. Its official, by placing tight restraints regarding potential opponents for Troy Ross, the Ontario Athletic Commission has prevented Ross from fighting entirely at WCP2. A disappointment for all, but by Ross’ own testament, “I’ll be on the next show that may be held sometime in May.” Ross will be fighting in Montreal with Smiciklas close-by, the first weekend following the Barrie show. Read More
Rick Smiciklas President of WCPannounced the complete line-up for thier first professional boxing card of the year scheduled for February 4th at the 4200 seat Molson Centre located at 555 Bayview Drive in Barrie, Ontario.
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Headlining the card will be undefeated Canadian Heavyweight Champion Neven “No Surrender” Pajkic (15-0 5KO’s) of Toronto who will fend off the challenge of hard punching “Lethal” Johnnie White ( 22-3 18KO’s) of Saint Martinsville, Louisiana in a 10 round heavyweight bout.
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The evenings World Championship co-feature will see a sizzling rematch between female pugilists. Champion “Lethal” Lindsay Garbatt (6-3-1 3KO’s) of Oshawa, Ontario will make the first defense of her World Title against former multi time Champion Jelena Mrdjenovich (24-6-1 12KO’s) of Edmonton, Alberta in a 10 round super featherweight rematch. Garbatt wrestled away the vacant title from Mrdjenovich in a hotly contested bout on Mrdjenovich’s home turf by split decision only 3 1/2 months before the scheduled date of the return match. Read More
British Heavyweight Champion Tyson Fury (12-0 9KO’s) is pictured with Canadian Heavyweight Legend George Chuvalo recently in Toronto. Word is the 2 got along so well that Chuvalo will accompany Fury to the ring when he fights Zack Page this coming Saturday night in Quebec City on the Pascal vs Hopkins Light Heavyweight blockbuster. Page (21-32-2 7KO’s) is a wily vertern of the ring, earlier this year he upset previously undefeated Sebastian Kober then 19-0 in Germany. Read More
Legendary former Canadian Heavyweight King George Chuvalo (73-18-2 64KO’s) will be a special guest at Ringside at KO Boxing Promotions Friday night card in Calgary, Alberta.
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The Main Event of the evening will feature a 10 round North American Title bout contested between female pugilists Ayana Pelletier of Winnipeg, Manitoba (6-2 4KO’s) and Sarah Pucek of Fort Langley, British Columbia (4-0-1 1KO). This will be Pucek’s first bout on Canadian soil while Pelletier has fought all but one of her bouts in Edmonton.
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Fights start at 7:30pm at The Subway Soccer Centre 7000-48 Street SE. Calgary, Alberta. Tickets are still available at Ticketmaster
President & CEO Rick Smiciklas of WildCard Promotion hosted a Press Conference announcing details of his innaugural professional boxing card on Saturday September 4th at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto.
TheBoxingExaminer.com was present for their press conference yesterday and here is the exclusive video.
MISSISSAUGA, ON – Canada’s Largest Boxing Gym, HUF Executive Fitness, has kicked off the 9th Annual Summer Youth Camp at the 26,000 sq/ft Mississauga facility. The camp is FREE to youth between the ages of 7 – 17 where they can learn to box, play sports and have fun.
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Operated by former professional boxer Olga Heron, and former bodybuilder Teresa Rego, the camp allows local youth to learn new skills, make friends and more importantly – receive a strong anti-drug message from former Canadian Heavyweight boxer George Chuvalo, who will make a personal visit to the camp on Friday, July 23 at 2 pm. George is best known for his legendary fights with Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and George Foreman, and today devotes his time to speaking out about the tragic events in which he lost his wife and three sons as a result of substance abuse. Read More
Steve Molitor and Neven Pajkic Sign Exclusive Sponsorship Deals With Wild Wing Restaurants
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By Rick McLean
Photography by Durell Wambolt
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On Monday July 19, 2010 at the Magna Golf Club in Aurora, Ontario, Wild Card Promotions president Rick Smiciklas announced that he will be hosting a “black tie” boxing event in downtown Toronto in conjunction with the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday September 4th, 2010. The event will be headlined by Canadian Heavyweight champion Neven Pajkic and will be attended by a diverse group of celebrities. All proceeds of the event will be donated to charity. Allan Tremblay of Orion Sports Management will be a consultant for the event. Rick Smicikas is also the founder and president of Wild Wing restaurant chainhttp://www.bestchickenwings.com
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It was also announced that Wild Wing incorporated have signed exclusive sponsorship deals with IBF Junior Featherweight champion Steve “The Canadian Kid” Molitor and Canadian Heavyweight champion Neven Pajkic. In addition, it was announced that Misho Jovicevic, the manager of Neven Pajkic has also signed Steve Molitor to his management team. This will take effect after Molitor’s title defence in England on September 11th against Jason Booth. The Steve Molitor championship defence will be televised live on TSN.Read More
It would be an understatement to say that Canadian Heavyweight Champion Neven Pajkic is one of the more interesting characters in the world of heavyweight boxing. The Serbian, who stands six feet four inches and weighs in at a natural two hundred forty pounds is an imposing figure. Don’t let the dry sense of humor fool you. The eyes say a lot and in Pajkics case they remind you of Roberto Duran. There is some mischievous look in those eyes mixed with a threat of fearless violence, whether getting or giving. Not the kind of chap you would want to bump into on a dark night in an alley as my dear old dad used to like to say. Aside from boxing Pajkic has built up a nice filmography resume in a short period of time including rolls as “Mercenary # 6” in “Death Warrior” and “Richies Thug” in “A History of Violence.” Next week at Casino Rama, in Ontario, Canada, he will apply his own legal brand of a history of violence and rest assured it will not remotely look like the film version of “Richies Thug” getting dropped for the permanent count, so to speak, by famous actor Viggo Mortensen Read More
Among the boxers from Canada to make to trek to the 21st annual International Boxing Hall of Fame induction weekend in Canastota, New York were reigning IBF Super Middleweight Champion Lucian Bute, former world title challengers from Kitchener, Ontario the Vanderpool Brothers Syd and Fitz, former Heavyweight King of Canada George Chuvalo, Troy “The Boss” Ross who is looking for a rematch with IBF Cruiserweight Champion Steve “USS” Cunningham and finally reigning female WBA Super Bantamweight Champion Lisa “Badnews” Brown.
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Lisa Bad News Brown attended the boxing hall of fame induction ceremonies this past weekend where she was the only female boxer introduced to over 700 of boxing’s who’s who at the Saturday night dinner gala as “our new WBA women’s champion.” Lisa’s manager Mike Schmidt commented that it “was great to see legends such as Micky Ward and Vito Antuofermo giving Lisa big smiles and thumbs up signs.” Read More
Julien Collette of Bouctouche and Warren Porter of Miramichi have a senior hockey background, but now they’re making their name in a different sport.
They will clash for the heavyweight championship in the main event of a professional boxing card on Saturday in the CEPS Building at l’Université de Moncton. Action begins at 7 p.m.
Collette (6-foot-3 and 225 pounds) and Porter (six foot and 235 pounds) both have a 3-0 record. One of them will earn $5,000 and take home the championship belt in The Next Great Heavyweight series.
Live Professional Boxing at the River Rock Casino Resort with Special Guest: Canadian Heavyweight Legend George Chuvalo.
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March 10, 2010
Richmond, BC: Rumble at the Rock VII is set to rock the River Rock Casino Resort on Saturday April 3, 2010. Once again, West Coast Promotions has teamed up with the Great Canadian Gaming Corporation to present another amazing boxing event at the four Diamond River Rock Casino and Resort. The event will feature a meet and greet with Canadian legend, World and Canadian Boxing Hall Of Fame Inductee and former Heavyweight fighter George Chuvalo. In 1972, Chuvalo fought against Muhammad Ali in a legendary bout at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver. Read More
