BC AMATEUR BOXING HALL OF FAME - BC BOXING TOURNAMENTS
DIAMOND BELT TOURNAMENTS, GOLDEN GLOVES and BC OLYMPIC TRIALS One of the outstanding tournaments of the Sixties was the 1967 BC Diamond Belt Tournament that featured ROCKY MARCIANO as a guest referee. When the last bell rang and it was time to select the Diamond Boy, the pick was Vancouver's DAVE WYLIE of the Firefighters Boxing Club coached by Bert Lowes and Pat West, Some of the others entered in the tournament were Frankie Scott, Wayne Boyce, Brian Zelley, Fred Fuller. Billy Taylor, Dick Findlay, Chester Douglas, Ed Williams and many more. The 1968 tournament was also used as the BC Olympic boxing trials and featured many of the boxers from 1967 and some former junior boxers. Some names to remember were John Carr, Dave Allardice, Ron McEachern, Wayne Boyce, Brian Zelley, Rick Fleck, Darryl Olsen, Freddy Fuller and Robbie Grant. Stepping back to 1951 some names to remember - Billy Pinkus, Len Walters and the McMurtry brothers from Seattle. After 1968, the Diamond Belt tournam