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1920 Canadian Light Heavyweight boxing champion; 1921 Grey Cup champion with the Toronto Argonauts; 2-time Stanley Cup champion (1934, 1935) with the Chicago Blackhawks and the Montreal Maroons; Inducted into Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame (1965); also prominent in rugby, baseball
the first black world boxing champion in any weight class, while also being the first ever Canadian-born boxing champion; considered the #1 Featherweight of all-time by Ring Magazine founder Nat Fleischer: David Downey: is in the Canadian Boxing Hall of Fame and the Nova Scotia Sports Hall of Fame Joe Eng
Leonard Sinclair Sparks (March 28, 1939 – March 19, 2021) was a welterweight boxer who won three Canadian boxing titles, including the Maritime welterweight championship, the Canadian junior welterweight championship, and the Canadian welterweight championship. Sparks was a switch hitter, who had power in both hands and finished his career ...
In the 1960s, Unitas became the founder and director of Canada's Boxing Hall of Fame, [2] and hosted annual awards ceremonies. [3] It would eventually be located on the National Exhibition Grounds in Toronto. [4] The Unitas Weekly, a Canadian boxing news magazine, was created by Tony Unitas. He was the publisher, editor and chief contributor.
2008 Inducted into the Waterloo County Sports Hall of Fame [6] [7] 2011 Induction as a 'Legend' - Boxing Ontario; 2015 Named 'National Ambassador' for StopBully.com; 2016 Community Service Award - NBA Canadian Boxing Hall of Fame; 2016 Inducted into Ontario Boxing Hall of Fame; 2016 'Courage Award' - Rochester Boxing Hall of Fame; 2017 RBG Flag ...
Shawn O'Sullivan (born May 9, 1962 in Toronto, Ontario) is a retired Canadian boxer who won gold at the World Amateur Championships in 1981 and the light middleweight silver medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He was inducted into Boxing Canada’s Hall of Fame, Class of 2019.
Canada's Sports Hall of Fame was first housed in Stanley Barracks in Toronto from 1955 to 1957. Efforts to create a national sports hall of fame were spurred by Harry Price, the chairman of the sports committee of the Canadian National Exhibition, who began to travel across Canada in 1947 to gather support for a museum and hall of fame. [3]
Ricky Anderson (born in Africville, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian-born former professional boxer. Anderson was due to represent Canada at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, but the Canadian teams boycotted the event. [1] He continued to become a top amateur boxer, and later the Canadian Welterweight boxing champion as a pro.