2012 BOXING CANADA SENIOR NATIONALS: by brian zelley
Well the party is over for another year, and for the most part many of
the champions retained there titles, but there were some interesting
battles along the way with some surprises and a few upsets.
For boxers such as Jonathan Quinit, Kenny Lally and Alex Rynn,
they brought their usual fight face to ringside, and then there were
some new kids on the block such as bantamweight RODOLFO VELASQUEZ.
And, true to form the following boxers made it through the tournament
to be the last man standing in the weight division including
Yves Ulysse, Custio Clayton, Brody Blair, Jonathan Savard and
the real senior SAMIR EL MAIS.
Then there was MARY SPENCER who continued to be the top
woman boxer in Canada.
Some of the boxers that just fell short of the title still performed well
in many of the bouts with wins such as BC light-heavyweight
Thomas Speirs.
For the champions of 2012 this is not the end of their 2012
journey, some or all of them will attempt to win an Olympic
spot on the Canadian Olympic team with soon to be action
and activity in South America. It will be the last change to
give all and to get beyond the ordinary to reach-up and
reach out to catch the hard to get spots on the Olympic team.
Overall it was a good week of boxing but once again the judging was very, very questionable, especially in the favour of the already members of the Canadian Mens A team. Only one person did not defend their title and Valesquez' decision in the semi was definately shocking. There were a few very suprising athletes this past week as mentioned above Thomas Spiers as well as 3 Ontario Athletes looked very impressive, Lexton Bates, Josh Cameron and Josh O'Reilly who all lost in the finals. The usuals Lally, Clayton, Blair and El Mais were also impressive. On the ladies side, it was very unfortunate that Galle could not fight Bujold as I think there was a very good chance of her winning. FTS will be very interesting as only one A team spot is up for grabs on the mens side while all others will battle for the B team. Good Luck to all the athletes in their preperation and looking forward to seeing the final results.
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