HERE WE GO BACK TO THE LATE 80S AS WE SEE BRIAN ( BUD ) FONTAINE IN THE BLACK TRUNKS.FONTAINE A TALL WELTERWEIGHT TAKES ON BOB GREEN. ALTHOUGHT FONTAINE GOT CAUGHT IN THE END IT WAS A GOOD MATCH UP.BUD FONTAINE WAS A STRONG WELTERWEIGHT,HE HAD THAT HEAVYWEIGHT HITTING POWER,AND THIS WAS WITNESSED ONE NITE IN A LOCAL GYM KNOCKING OUT A 220 LB HEAVYWEIGHT AND ALSO LEAVING HIM WITH A CONCUSSION.FONTAINE HAD FAST HANDS AND A SOLID CHIN.HE WOULD FINISH OFF WITH A 3AND1 RECORD WITH 3 WINS COMING BY WAY OF KNOCKOUT.BRIAN FONTAINE WOULD STAY ACTIVE IN THE GYMS AND GO ON TO SPARR WITH SOME OF THE BEST AROUND AND HOLD HIS OWN DOING IT.EXAMPLES WHERE DRAKE THADZI, DEAN STOREY, TO NAME A FEW. THE REFEREE FOR THIS BOUT WAS GORDIE GALLANT.

THE YEAR IS 1993 AND JACQUES LEBLANC HAS JUST WON THE C.P.B.C./CANADIAN PROFESSIONAL BOXING COUNCIL MIDDLE WEIGHT TITLE BY OUT  POINTING AND OUT BOXING ERROL (DOWNTOWN)BROWN.THE SLICK AND SKILLFULL LEBLANC WAS JUST TO MUCH FOR BROWN. JACQUES WOULD GO ON TO BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS INCLUDING FIGHTING THE GREAT LEGEND ROBERTO DURAN AND THE VERY FAST VINNY PAZIENZA. ALTHOUGH JACQUES WOULD LOOSE ON A DECISION HE WOULD HOLD HIS OWN WITH THESE WORLD CALIBER FIGHTERS. JACQUES HAD THE SKILLS AND SPEED AND A SOLID CHIN THAT WOULD ALLOW HIM TO GO THE DISTANCE WITH  HIGHER LEVEL FIGHTERS LIKE ROBERTO DURAN AND VINNY PAZIENZA. JACQUES WOULD GO ON TO FIGHT OTHER GOOD FIGHTERS, INCLUDING DAN ROSENBLATT/ RICHIE WOODHALL/ EDDIE HALL/ AND ALSO FIGHT THE THEN CANADIAN SUPPER MIDDLE WEIGHT CHAMPION RON SAVOIE WHO WAS MANAGED BY THE LATE JERRY DOIRON SENIOR. JACQUES LEBLANC WOULD WIN THE DECISION, AGAINST SAVOIE. JACQUES FOUGHT MANY OTHER GOOD FIGHTERS INCLUDING, ALEX HILTON/ JOHNNY GUITIERREZ/ RICKY THOMAS/ MIGUEL SANTANA/ DEANO CLAVET AND ALSO SOME GOOD LOCAL FIGHTERS LIKE / ULYSSES DOIRON/ MARCEL GOBEIL/ DARRELL ( PEE WEE ) FLINT/ MARTY COLE / DANNY WINTER/ EDDIE HOLLETT/ GARY (THE KID) MCINTYRE / DON JOHNSON AND GEORGE MONROE .

AS WE GO BACK IN TIME WE STOP TO 1988/ NOVEMBER 27 AND IN HALIFAX NOVA SCOTIA AT THE HALIFAX FORUM TREVOR BERBICK IS THE MAIN EVENT ON A FIGHT CARD TAKIN ON  ROBERT EVANS ,BUT THEY ARE NOT THE MAIN ATTRACTION AS THE GREAT ONE( MUHAMMAD ALI ) AND WITH HIM THE EASTON ASSASIN ( LARRY HOLMES ) VISIT THE MARITIMES AND STOP IN HALIFAX TO TAKE IN THIS FIGHT CARD. THIS WAS ABOUT 2 MONTHS PRIOR TO WHEN LARRY HOLMES RAN IN TO ( IRON MIKE TYSON ) GETTING KO'D IN THE FOURTH ROUND IN LAS VEGAS.THE GREATEST DID SIGN A FEW AUTOGRAPHS AND MINGLED A BIT WITH THE CROWD AND SO DID LARRY HOLMES AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE PICS THEY BOTH WERE CALLED INTO THE RING AND IT SEEMS THAT WHEN ALI GOT IN RING A SUDDEN FEELING OF YOUTH WOULD RUN THREW HIM.THIS IS A GREAT MOMENT IN SPORTS AND AN HONOR TO THE MARITIMES TO HAVE THESE 2 FINE HALL OF FAMERS TO STOP BY .THIS IS LOOKING BACK