Freddy Stephen Fuller
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Freddy Fuller is an ex-amateur boxer from British Columbia, Canada. He was a member of the 1967 Canadian Pan Am Games boxing team, a several times Canadian Amateur Boxing Champion in the 1960s and 1970, and a member of the Canadian boxing team for the 1970 Commonwealth Games.
Fighting career
Fuller began his boxing journey in the 1950s at the Burnaby Boxing Club under coach Harry Twist,Burnaby Sports Hall of Fame then joined the East Vancouver Optimist Club. In his junior years Fuller was twice named Emerald Boy and in 1963, he earned the BC Jr. Golden Boy award.
As a junior boxer Fuller won the 1963 Jr Golden Boy Award and the 1965 Golden Boy Award.Boxing BC Golden Gloves archivesBC Amateur Boxing News, November 1963 to January 1986, editor Brian W. Zelley Some of his Golden Gloves victories in the US were reported in The RING magazine in an article by Tony Simnett.The RING magazine, June 1966Vancouver South News, April 14, 1965.
In 1965, Fuller was a Tacoma Golden Gloves champion.The RING magazine, May 1965 edition, "Pacific Northwest Boxing News" by Ruggles Larsen
Stan Smith, chairman of the British Columbia branch of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) in 1966 said: "Fuller is the best boxer I've seen in the Western Canadian area in 10 years".Vancouver Island Boxing News, 1983, editor Brian Zelley and authorized by Rick Brough 1983 Vancouver Island Boxing Commissioner
In the final of the 1967 International Diamond Belt Centennial Boxing Championship light-welterweight division, Fuller fought against Dave Wylie which was featured on a boxing program in January 1968.Vancouver firefighters Boxing Club program, January 5, 1968
Fuller competed as part of the 1967 Pan Am Games Canadian Boxing Team.Pan American 1967 List of Competitors, events of August 2, 1967
In 1968, Fuller was one of 19 BC boxers to participate in the Seattle Golden Gloves that also was the Pacific Northwest AAU Championships.The Vancouver Sun As winner, he went to Ohio in April 1968, to compete in the USA National Boxing Championships.
Fuller participated in the 1970 Commonwealth Games in the light-welterweight division. In that tournament, Prince George boxer Jack Meda earned a bronze medal. Some of the other Canadian boxers were Joe Cooke, Frank Scott, Marv Arneson and Darryl Olsen.
He won the 1970 BC Golden Gloves, Western Canadian Championships and the Canadian National Championships.Boxing BC and Boxing Canada boxing competition archives
In 2010, Fuller was one of 14 boxers considered for inclusion in the British Columbia Amateur Boxing Hall Of Fame. In 2011, Fuller was to be an honorary director along with Irene Brough, Dick Findlay, David Ius and Blake Scott.
In January 2018, Fuller was joined in the BC Amateur Boxing Hall of Fame by former club and teammates Dave Wyley and Brian Zelley.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}
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Category:Light-welterweight boxers
Category:Commonwealth Games competitors for Canada
Category:Boxers at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
Category:Pan American Games competitors for Canada
Category:Boxers at the 1967 Pan American Games
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)