FREDDY STEPHEN FULLER-Introduction: By Brian W.Zelley, B.Comm,CA
During my days of amateur boxing in British Columbia from 1963, I had the opportunity to
belong to the same boxing club as Freddy Fuller and some other outastanding boxers such as
FRANK SCOTT and DAVE WYLIE, and so many more. Beyond those years of boxing competition for
Freddy Fuller, Frank Scott, Dave Wylie, Brian Zelley and many more, I have seen many other fine
young BC boxers and other boxers from Canada and the USA. AS I attempt to pick the best of the best
from British Columbia two names stand tall from my eyes and experiences from the Sixties - FULLER and SCOTT.
In the Seventies there would be many new stars from BC such as CHRIS IUS, LES HAMILTON, DAVID IUS,
JOE COOKE and many others, but in 1970 at the beginning of the decade two veterans that were
the key boxing leaders of excellence include Freddy Fuller and Frank Scott.
As we flash through the history of amateur boxing during the Sixties, one of the active and top amateur boxers
was FREDDY STEPHEN FULLER, who was primarily a Greater Vancouver boxer who would travel far and wide
in numerous club shows and tournaments that began in the Fifties when Fuller was just a junior boxer from
the Burnaby Boxing Club coached by the Burnaby Sports Hall of Fame coach HARRY TWIST and assisted by former boxer JOHNNY PHILLIPS
Of the many tournaments, a key achievement was Freddy being part of Canada's Pan Am Games team in 1967..
Five others in the finals - Dick Findlay, Derek Austin, Brian Zelley, Dave Wylie, Billy Taylor.
Some of The references
Sources of photos:
ReplyDeleteBurnaby Boxing Club photo from Scott family,
1965 Golden Gloves courtesy of Freddy Fuller,
1967 Diamond Belt Photo, from the program of
a Firefighter Boxing Card courtesy of Freddy Fuller.
Cool to read about the old guys who had been fighting and then doing other stuff for boxing
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