BC Boxing handed out its annual awards during a card in Salmon Arm on April 27 and honoured Nelson with three awards, including best youth boxer Riel Martinez and a student-athlete award to fighter Jack Dool.
“We put out really good fighters here and we win most of our fights and we’re competing at a provincial and national level, but we’re also doing it from this place where every fight is an eight-hour drive and we fight every weekend. It’s a lot of work that went into that and I think that’s what people see.”
“Operating at that level, just like surpassing things that normal human beings can’t deal with, and also boxing, which is not easy. It’s a hard sport. Just so, so well deserved and we are super proud of him for that as well.”
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