Lee Donison

Although better known as a boxer, Lee Donison was also an outstanding wrestler. He won the Provincial Heavyweight Wrestling Championship four consecutive years between 1953 and 1956. Lee also won the Most Outstanding Wrestler Award at the Provincial Championships in 1954.

As a boxer, he won seven provincial titles between 1952 and 1963; as a light-heavyweight in 1952 and a heavyweight in 1953 to 1957. After a five-year absence, he returned to win both the Provincial and National Light-heavyweight Championships in 1963.

Lee Donison is the first athlete in Canada to have won provincial titles in both boxing and wrestling four times

 

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