Home | Webstore
Latest News: OOTP 25 Available - FHM 10 Available - OOTP Go! Available

Out of the Park Baseball 25 Buy Now!

  

Go Back   OOTP Developments Forums > Prior Versions of Our Games > Title Bout Championship Boxing > TBCB General Discussions

TBCB General Discussions Talk about the new boxing sim, Title Bout.

Reply
 
Thread Tools
Old 06-26-2012, 06:47 PM   #1
jofre
Hall Of Famer
 
jofre's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: New Hampshire
Posts: 2,139
RIP Ralph Hollett

A great champion and a legend are being used to describe former Canadian championship boxer Ralph Hollett who lost a lengthy battle with cancer and an inoperable brain tumour on June 14, 2012. He was 59.

Longtime friend Mickey MacDonald described the Halifax fighter as “a champion in and outside the ring.”

“He was a great champion
and he fought hard for the fans of Nova Scotia,” MacDonald, a Halifax entrepreneur and chair of the Nova Scotia Boxing Authority, said Friday afternoon.

“He’s one of those legends in the boxing community.

“He represented Nova Scotia very professionally and he always came to fight.

“Ralph had that tough guy image but he was an all-around good guy. There was a softer side to him. He openly talked about his love for his family. They were his greatest accomplishments. He will be missed.”

Hollett, a black belt in Karate, Uechi Ryu and Jui Jitsu, started out as a kickboxer and won a Canadian kickboxing championship. But Hollett made a name for himself when he entered pro boxing at age 25.

“Ralph and I started boxing around the same time in the early ’70s,” MacDonald recalled. “Ralph was a Fairview boy who started out in karate but found a calling in boxing. He trained very, very hard all the time. He didn’t take it lightly in his training. Ralph was always training.”

In a boxing career that spanned from 1977 to 1983, he earned a 19-10-1 record under trainer Tom McCluskey, and the Canadian middleweight title, which he won in Jan. 1980 and June 1981. (McCluskey, husband to Halifax regional councillor Gloria McCluskey, passed away in February at age 87)

“Ralph Hollett was a great champion and a positive influence on sport in Nova Scotia,” said Jamie Ferguson, CEO of Sport Nova Scotia, said. “I think his legacy was inspiring more Nova Scotians to take part in sport and we think that’s very important.”

MacDonald believes Hollett’s success in the ring are worthy of a spot in the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame. MacDonald submitted a nomination this year to have Hollett inducted. He expects Hollett to be enshrined soon.

“I thought he was in the hall of fame and when I found out he wasn’t, we put in an application to see if we can get him in there,” MacDonald said. “They have (the application) so hopefully next year he will get in the hall of fame because he deserves to be.”

After Hollett's fighting career ended, he eventually went on to work for Nova Scotia's Department of Justice and later worked for the department at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Burnside.

Friends and family rallied around the legendary sports figure after his diagnosis in 2010. MacDonald held a fundraiser at Palooka’s Boxing Club in Hollett’s honour later that same year.

Hollett is survived by father Ralph, daughter Sara, sons Roger, Clinton and Angelo, common-law wife Lisa Novelli, three sisters, two brothers and a large circle of extended family and friends.

A family and public visitation will be held at J. A. Snow Funeral Home on Lacewood Dr. in Clayton Park on Tuesday. Memorial service will take place Wednesday, 1 p.m. in the funeral home chapel.

With Patricia Brooks Arenburg

Hollett
__________________
jofre
jofre is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-27-2012, 12:05 PM   #2
Cap
Hall Of Famer
 
Cap's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Large Province in God's Country
Posts: 7,759
Blog Entries: 4
I saw his last fight with Alex Hilton at the Forum in Montreal. It was SRO. Fighter with a lot of heart.

R.I.P.

Cap
__________________
"...There were Giants in Those Days.."
Cap is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-28-2012, 01:03 PM   #3
bear
Global Moderator
 
bear's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Chicago
Posts: 18,798
rip
__________________
Bear's Unstable

UTBA Season Four Gold Conference Central Division Champion

First UTBA expansion franchise to win a conference divisional title
bear is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-28-2012, 01:04 PM   #4
IceTea
Hall Of Famer
 
IceTea's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Sherrill, NY
Posts: 9,759
Rip
IceTea is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 07-13-2012, 04:51 PM   #5
Mad Bomber
All Star Starter
 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 1,566
Tough fighter who always gave you a tough fight. Rest in Peace
__________________
Keep on Punchin'

There are three things that go on a fighter, first your reflexes go, then your chin goes, and then your friends go.

Willie Pep
Mad Bomber is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 02:53 AM.

 

Major League and Minor League Baseball trademarks and copyrights are used with permission of Major League Baseball. Visit MLB.com and MiLB.com.

Officially Licensed Product – MLB Players, Inc.

Out of the Park Baseball is a registered trademark of Out of the Park Developments GmbH & Co. KG

Google Play is a trademark of Google Inc.

Apple, iPhone, iPod touch and iPad are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

COPYRIGHT © 2023 OUT OF THE PARK DEVELOPMENTS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

 

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.10
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Copyright © 2020 Out of the Park Developments