{"id":33,"date":"2014-09-24T21:43:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T21:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrittonboxingclub.com\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2026-03-22T17:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T17:02:45","slug":"coaches-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/merrittonboxingclub.com\/?page_id=33","title":{"rendered":"COACHES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 St Catharines Boxing Club is a non-profit organization<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 All the coaches and instructors donate their time teaching kids boxing skills for fitness and self confidence<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"WEBON_SIZE\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-38 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/merrittonboxingclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dad.jpg\" alt=\"dad\" width=\"154\" height=\"204\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"WEBON_SIZE\">Joe Corrigan\u00a0 president of the St. Catharines Amateur Boxing Club, started as a boxer then began coaching in 198<\/span>3 and his endeavours have earned him many recognition&#8217;s. Such achievements include the 2001 Jack Gatecliff\u00a0Award for organizing boxing events in St. Catharines also The St. Catharines 2002 Sports person of the Year for his efforts in promoting amateur boxing and staging numerous boxing championships in St. Catharines, including the senior men\u2019s and women\u2019s Canadian Championships.\u00a0 Joe runs an active club and has organized many events including the Ray McGibbons Gloves, Arnie Boehm Classics, The Wise Guys Boxing Event, The Pearl Gloves, Murphy&#8217;s Gloves. He also organized boxing trips to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, U.S.A , Scotland, Ireland, Kansas City, Las Vegas and Boston.\u00a0 \u00a0Joe has a strong belief that hard work produces results and money should never be an obstacle in the path of a determined athlete.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Come to the St. Catharines Amateur Boxing Club and meet Joe.\u00a0 He\u2019ll be happy to set up a training program suited just for you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"WEBON_SIZE\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/merrittonboxingclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1470695.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-41 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/merrittonboxingclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1470695.jpg\" alt=\"1470695\" width=\"200\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Robertson has been a member of the St Catharine&#8217;s Boxing Club for almost 20 years, John got the love of boxing from his father Jack Robertson who boxed in the Navy. John started coaching when his son&#8217;s friend joined the club,John&#8217;s son Ryan was also a competitive boxer for the S.C.B.C .John also got in the Ring for Murphy&#8217;s Gloves Charity Show<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/merrittonboxingclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FullSizeRender.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-178 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/merrittonboxingclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FullSizeRender-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender\" width=\"217\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merrittonboxingclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FullSizeRender-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/merrittonboxingclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FullSizeRender.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul Zahra has been a member of the St Catharine&#8217;s Amateur Boxing Club for over 20 years, starting off boxing for the club and then becoming a coach. Paul was a &#8220;Box On&#8221; instructor with Boxing Ontario and was an official for a brief time as well. Paul has had a long history in the combat arts of Taekwondo, judo, kickboxing and wrestling. Paul coached wrestling for over 15 years and had been working with youth&#8217;s for over 24 years and was a member of the Canadian Armed Forces serving overseas in the Middle East in 1990-91. Paul has enjoyed combat arts but has found a true love in boxing due to the high level of competition and travel, as well as loyal friends and boxers he has met and coached over the years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1359\" src=\"https:\/\/merrittonboxingclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ray-Riley-pic-2023-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ray Riley pic 2023\" width=\"170\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merrittonboxingclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ray-Riley-pic-2023-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/merrittonboxingclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ray-Riley-pic-2023.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ray Riley has been a member of the St. Catharine&#8217;s Amatuer Boxing Club for over 5 years,\u00a0 he started off as a boxer as a Jr and won the Bronze medal in the Jr Canadian Championship.\u00a0 He took some time off and got back in the Ring for Murphy&#8217;s Gloves and also won the Ringside Championship as a Master, he started coaching at the club after that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1358\" src=\"https:\/\/merrittonboxingclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bruce-Greenlaw-pic-2023-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bruce Greenlaw pic 2023\" width=\"161\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merrittonboxingclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bruce-Greenlaw-pic-2023-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/merrittonboxingclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bruce-Greenlaw-pic-2023.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bruce Greenlaw has been a member of the St.Catharine&#8217;s Amatuer Boxing Club for over 5 years, Bruce started boxing for the Merritton Boxing Club as a youth.\u00a0 Years later he stepped back into the ring as a master for Murphy&#8217;s Glove&#8217;s, then started coaching at the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 St Catharines Boxing Club is a non-profit organization \u00a0 All the coaches and instructors donate their time teaching kids boxing skills for fitness and self confidence Joe Corrigan\u00a0 president of the St. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrittonboxingclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrittonboxingclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrittonboxingclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrittonboxingclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrittonboxingclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/merrittonboxingclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445,"href":"https:\/\/merrittonboxingclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/1445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrittonboxingclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}