Our Contender of The Month for July 2021 is Veneel Deo. Veneel has been training at Contenders on and off for 3-4 years. Lately he has been putting a lot of effort into his training, and his boxing has improved a lot as the result. We are also excited that he has started sparring recently. Here is o...

Our Contender of The Month for June is Roland Wood. Roland has been a member of Contenders for about 9 years, and is regular to our 6AM classes. He likes to joke around, but when it’s time to work, he works hard, and he throws some killer punches! Here is our Q & A with Roland.   Q: What ma...

Our Contender of The Month for May 2021 is Monique Lizardo.   First of all, big congratulations to Monique for finishing her master’s degree in architecture this month! What a big accomplishment!   Monique has been training at Contenders on and off since July 2016. When she is at the gym,...

Our Contender of The Month for April 2021 is Rakan Stanbouly. Rakan has been training at Contenders for a little over a year now. He had no previous experience in boxing, or in any other sports, but he wanted to try something new and chose boxing because it sounded like fun. He picked Contenders bec...

Our Contender of The Month for March 2021 is Dante Montoya who has been training at Contenders since 2017. He says that over the course of time there were some ups and downs for him, but he is now 100% focused on his training, which we can clearly see and are impressed by for the last several months...

Our Contender of The Month for February 2021 is Bernie Hui who has been training with us for a little over 2 years. When we had to suspend our high-intensity group classes back in November due to the Provincial Health Order, Bernie shifted his focus on really improving his technique instead of relyi...