The Torbay Rec. Center Boxing Club will be hosting their annual boxing dinner show on Friday October 27th, 2023 at the Legion on the Boulevard. The card will feature boxers from several different local boxing clubs including TRC Boxing Club, the CBS Boxing Club and Rock Athletics. Dinner will start at 7pm and the boxing card will start around 8pm. For ticket information please contact Hank Summers at 709-687-6049.
Rock Athletics will present a 14 bout boxing card on Saturday, March 19th at their Club on Park Avenue in Mount Pearl. The boxing card, featuring boxers from the TRC Boxing Club, the CBS Boxing Club, and Rock Athletics will commence at 7:30 pm. This competition will be the first Boxing NL card since October of 2021 due to the Covid-19 closures. Doors will open at 7:15 pm. Boxing Fans attending the show are requested to bring along a pair of sneakers, or slippers, to utilize at the event as outdoor footwear will have to be removed and stored prior to entering the gymnasium area.
Admission to the event is $10.00 for adults and $5.00 for kids under 16. A limited amount of seating will be available due to the un-arrival of special flooring to cover the cork gym floor, however there will be plenty of standing room for spectators.
The CBS Boxing Club is hosting a 10 bout card this upcoming Saturday December 18th, 2021 at St. George’s Elementary School in Long Pond. Boxers from the CBS Boxing Club, the TRC Boxing Club and Rock Athletics will be featured on the show.
Doors will open at 2:00 pm for the boxing fans and the card will commence shortly afterwards. Admission for the show is $10.00 for adults and $5.00 for kids. Provincial Covid-19 protocols will be followed and NL vaccination passes will be checked at the door.
During an evening of entertaining boxing that followed a three course meal at the Royal Canadian Legion on Friday, October 22nd, Boxing Newfoundland and Labrador inducted three new members to its Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame was introduced last year after a number of years of planning, and seven members were initially inducted. The three new members now provide a total of 10 members to Boxing NL’s illustrious Hall.
Boxing NL President Hank Summers introduced the three inductees and read a brief history of their boxing careers. Brian Bambrick, Jason Hayward, and Blair Tobin, three former athletes that had tremendous boxing careers, were presented with their Hall of Fame Certificates by guest speaker Tom Osborne, the Minister of Education for the Government of NL. The three athletes were given a standing ovation by the packed house following a short address by each of them.
2023 Canada Winter Games Coach Todd Rideout of the CBS Boxing Club, and CWG’s boxer Riley O’Brien of the TRC Boxing Club attended a 10 day “Next Generation Evaluation Training Camp” hosted by Boxing Canada. The training camp took place at the INS Quebec in Montreal and hosted a number of Male and Female athletes throughout Canada.
Provincial Coaches attending this Camp worked throughout the week with Boxing Canada’s Coaches from the High Performance Center in Montreal. The purpose of this Camp was to access our future athletes and prepare them for the next three years leading to the Olympic Games in 2024.
Boxing Newfoundland and Labrador is pleased to hear that both the TRC Boxing Club and the CBS Boxing club will resume training again. The CBS club has been closed since the start of the pandemic and the TRC club trained last year but only with reduced numbers. Both clubs will resume training at their regular locations; the CBS club operates out of St George’s Elementary School in CBS and the TRC club operates out of MacDonald Drive Junior High on MacDonald Drive.
For information on how to join one of the clubs and their days of operation, please contact Todd Rideout for the CBS Boxing Club at 764-3109 or for the TRC Boxing Club contact Hank Summers at 687-6049.