Scrapyard Boxing Club

Scrapyard Boxing Club

The history of the Scrapyard Boxing Club is incredible! When shopping for a place to learn the sport of boxing, or compete, your look is over! In 1977 Al Wilson. Al found space below the old voyager bus station on King St. The accomplishments of the Club and its athletes were amazing! The Peterborough Boxing Club held the Provincial Championships at Trent University in 1983 and had 4 provincial champs, Richard Ayotte, John Clark, Gary Cummings, and John Lawson. The Club hosted Closed Circuit Fights with Larry Holmes, Gerry Cooney and Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard & Tom Hearns!

Also, in the 80’s the Peterborough Boxing Club held the first ever Professional Boxing Show in Peterborough at the Peterborough Memorial Centre with boxers Nicky Furlano & Eddie Melo. One more worth mentioning was the “Think you are tough Contest” in Lindsay with several athletes. In 1993 the club was forced to move when the Voyager Bus Terminal was being torn down. At this time, one of Al’s students, Kerry Hendren took over the reins. Kerry changed the name of the Club to The Blue Horizon Boxing Gym and they moved over to High St and were there for a couple of years. In March 2011, Kerry opened at the then Golds Gym (now Goodlife). This is when the present owner Jessica Swain Joined the Club. She started as a member, then went competitive under Kerry Hendren. After several years of competing, she decided it was time to simply train to stay in shape and start coaching. When the Club left Goodlife, it changed names one more time to the Scrapyard Boxing Club and moved.

Kerry has decided to pass the ownership of the club to one of his students Jessica Swain. Still to this day The Scrapyard has maintained the coaching of former owners and Athletes Al Wilson, Dwight Kelusky, Neil Anderson, Richard Ayotte and Kerry Hendren. Combined, our Coaches have well over 150 years of experience in this one club. We have coached many Provincial and National Champions and cannot think of a better family to join and train with!

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