Eddie Wenstob (Above) came in at #4 on the list. Where does your favourite boxer rank? (Photo: Boxrec.com)
The following is a list of Alberta’s top five P4P professional boxers of all time, as ranked by Boxrec.com. How do they match up with your top 5?
1. Clonie Tait – Edmonton, Alberta
Lightweight Clonie Tait (34-8-2, 16KO) of Edmonton, Alberta, tops Boxrec.com’s list of Alberta’s P4P best, coming in at #20 in the nation overall. Fighting in the days of “newspaper decisions,” Tait compiled an additional 23 fights in which no official winner was stated. The media of the time, more often than not, considered Tait the winner in these contests, awarding him a record of 12-8-3 in “newspaper decision” bouts. Tait was a celebrated Canadian lightweight champion, first winning his laurels in 1917 against Johnny O’Leary (30-12-15, 9KO) of Seattle, Washington. Tait successfully defended his national championship eight times and, according to Boxrec, never lost in Canadian title action.
