David Downey (born 1942) was the Canadian Middleweight Champion (1967–1977) and was a member of the Boxing Downeys dynasty. He was the son of
George Downey and is the father of Olympian
Ray Downey
Raymond Tyler Downey (born September 23, 1968 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian boxer, who won a light middleweight bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics. In 1990 he gained silver at the 1990 Commonwealth Games. He is a member of Nova ...
. He is in the Canadian Boxing Hall of Fame and the Nova Scotia Sports Hall of Fame.
See also
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Boxing in Canada The sport of boxing has been practised in Canada since before Canadian Confederation in 1867. Boxing was illegal in Canada during the Bare-knuckle boxing, bare-knuckle era but fights took place in remote areas and the last of them was in Halifax (fo ...
References
Further reading
* Robert Ashe. Halifax Champion: Black Power in Gloves.
ife of Dave DowneyFormac. 2005
External links
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Video - Downey Inducted into NS Sport Hall of Fame (1999)Image of Downey, 1972
Canadian male boxers
1942 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Halifax, Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame inductees
Black Nova Scotians
Black Canadian boxers
Middleweight boxers
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