Jerry Shears
Jerry Shears, born Gerald Schulman on October 18, 1925, in Montreal, was a Canadian amateur boxer and the founder and first president of the Canadian Amateur Boxing Association (CABA). He came from a boxing family known as the Fighting Shears and began boxing at 13. He joined the Canadian Armed Forces at 15 and competed as an amateur for about 12 years, winning many titles and finishing with 135 wins and 15 losses in 150 fights. He never turned professional and fought at venues like the Montreal Forum and Maple Leaf Gardens.
In 1950, he represented Canada at the Maccabiah Games in Tel Aviv and retired from competitive boxing after a five-round bout in London that year. He later worked in insurance and helped organize boxing events. In 1969, he founded CABA and served as its first president, promoting safer boxing and the use of protective headgear. His work helped lead to headgear being required at the Olympics starting in 1988. Jerry Shears died on March 21, 2010, in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, at age 84.
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