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Going down: Challenger Roddy MacDonald watches as champion Gary Summerhays heads for the canvas duing their Canadian light heavyweight championship fight last night at the CNE Coliseum
Going down: Challenger Roddy MacDonald watches as champion Gary Summerhays heads for the canvas duing their Canadian light heavyweight championship fight last night at the CNE Coliseum

Going down: Challenger Roddy MacDonald watches as champion Gary Summerhays heads for the canvas duing their Canadian light heavyweight championship fight last night at the CNE Coliseum

Date12/2/1981
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0064428F
New champ: Roddy MacDonald hugs his manager after the 21-year-old Toronto fighter won the Canadian light heavyweigh championship last night at the CNE Coliseum
New champ: Roddy MacDonald hugs his manager after the 21-year-old Toronto fighter won the Canadian light heavyweigh championship last night at the CNE Coliseum
12/1/1981
Gary Summerhays, right, ducks left thrown by Damiano Pellegrino during bout last night which Summerhays won by TKO
Gary Summerhays, right, ducks left thrown by Damiano Pellegrino during bout last night which Summerhays won by TKO
7/17/1979
Too heavy: Roddy MacDonald was 2 1/2 pounds over the 175-pound limit at the official weigh-in yesterday but he'll shed that easily in preparation for the Canadian championship bout against the light heavyweight titleholder Gary Summer-hays, checking the s
Too heavy: Roddy MacDonald was 2 1/2 pounds over the 175-pound limit at the official weigh-in yesterday but he'll shed that easily in preparation for the Canadian championship bout against the light heavyweight titleholder Gary Summer-hays, checking the s
11/30/1981
Agony and ecstasy: Toronto's Roddy MacDonald (left) is battered and on his way to defeat in defence of his light-heavyweight championship at Varsity Arena last night
Agony and ecstasy: Toronto's Roddy MacDonald (left) is battered and on his way to defeat in defence of his light-heavyweight championship at Varsity Arena last night
8/19/1986
Ready for Willie: Canadian light-heavyweight champ Roddy MacDonald works out before bout with Willie Featherstone next week
Ready for Willie: Canadian light-heavyweight champ Roddy MacDonald works out before bout with Willie Featherstone next week
8/13/1986
Working out on the punching bag, 165-pound Roddy MacDonald, 17, believes he'll keep the Canadian amateur senior middleweight boxing championship in challenge match tomorrow night
Working out on the punching bag, 165-pound Roddy MacDonald, 17, believes he'll keep the Canadian amateur senior middleweight boxing championship in challenge match tomorrow night
5/16/1978
Lalonde next? Toronto's Willy Featherstone (left) trades punches with Danny Lindstrom duringtheir 12-round light heavyweight match at the CNE Coliseum(...)
Lalonde next? Toronto's Willy Featherstone (left) trades punches with Danny Lindstrom duringtheir 12-round light heavyweight match at the CNE Coliseum(...)
12/8/1987
Down... and out, Toronto welterweight Shawn O'Sullivan crumbles to the canvas early in the second round after a blitz by Canadian champ Donovan Bouche(...)
Down... and out, Toronto welterweight Shawn O'Sullivan crumbles to the canvas early in the second round after a blitz by Canadian champ Donovan Bouche(...)
3/26/1988
Pre-fight relaxation in hotel room finds world middleweight champion Nino Benvenuti playing with son Stefano, 6, as wife Giuliana watches. Nino takes (...)
Pre-fight relaxation in hotel room finds world middleweight champion Nino Benvenuti playing with son Stefano, 6, as wife Giuliana watches. Nino takes (...)
9/9/1968
Image shows a number of small boats and one huge ship behind them on the lake.
Boats at the National yact Club huddle under canvas to ward off autumn chill while a big ocean-going vessel glides behind them into the Western Gap of(...)
9/28/1968
Guido Molinari: Respected artist poses in front of his 1966 canvas Rythmique, one of the paintings going on exhibit tomorrow at the Grunwald and Watterson Gallery
Guido Molinari: Respected artist poses in front of his 1966 canvas Rythmique, one of the paintings going on exhibit tomorrow at the Grunwald and Watterson Gallery
5/12/1988
A campfire is their kitchen and this tent is home for Ruby Barry, 39, and her six children who slept under canvas last night in the Humber River Valle(...)
A campfire is their kitchen and this tent is home for Ruby Barry, 39, and her six children who slept under canvas last night in the Humber River Valle(...)
9/19/1975