Geoffrey Cuff of The Conception Bay South Boxing Club was named Boxing Newfoundland and Labrador’s (BNL) most outstanding boxer for 2010 Friday night during Rumble on the Rock, a boxing-dinner show at the Royal Canadian Legion in Pleasantville, St. John’s.
Cuff won a silver medal at this year’s national cadet championships in Halifax and will be looking or more national success when he returns to Halifax for the 2011 Canada Winter Games in February.
The majority of fighters on Friday’s card, which featured Newfoundlanders taking on opponents fron Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, are candidates for the Winter Games.
Weston Baird of the C.B.S. club and Josh Hearn of the TRC (formerly Torbay Reacreation Club) in St. John’s were named co-winners of the Marg Dodd Memorial Award, presented annually by BNL to the fighter or fighters best exemplifying the spirit and love for boxing displayed by the late Margie Dodd, a well-known supporter of the sport.
Cuff, fighting at 144.5 pounds, won his bout Friday against Stephen Hill of the Evageline Trail club in Kentville, N.S. The other Newfoundlander to win Friday was 130-pound Jeremy Pye of TRC, who got a split decision over Brandon Blacquiere out of the Co-ed club in Charlottetetown, P.E.I. in a busy fight, the most entertaining of the night
Other winers Friday were national bronze medallist Robert MacMillan of Charlottetown, who stopped the 178-pound Baird; Myles Gillies of the Ti-County Club in Yarmouth, N.S., who oupointed the 148.5 pound Hearn; Brandon Osbourne of the City of Lakes club in Dartmouth, N.S. in a battle of 168-pounders against Kurt Warford of TRC; Kyle McNeil of the Twin Cities club in Dartmouth, who defeated the 126-pound Gary Corcoran of TRC; Brandon Helef of Twin Cities over the 119-pound Billy Casey of C.B.S.; and 77.5 pound Cole Dillon of TRC over Nathan Walsh of C.B.S. in a matchup of young local fighters that topped the card.
BNL, which expects to have a team of six or seven boxers at the upcoming Winter Games, will be sending a group of fighters on a reciprocal visit to Halifax next month.
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