Thunder Innis, provincial champion.
Melissa O’Flynn, provincial champion.
Josh Greenwood, provincial bronze-medalist.
Adam Young and Canaan Woodrow, B.C. Bronze Gloves champions.
And Kenny Lally and Jag Seehra, Boxing B.C. coaches of the year.
For Inner City Boxing PG, that’s the shining list of accomplishments from one of the most important events on the club’s 2026 competition schedule. It all happened last weekend at the Landing Sports Centre in Chilliwack.
“It’s incredible,” Lally said. “We’ve had a hard, hard year but we kept training, kept the spirits up. It’s just the way it goes. You’re not going to win them all but you must be persistent in your pursuit.”
At the combined provincial and B.C. Bronze Gloves championships, Inner City boxers punched to eight wins and just one loss.
For his provincial title, the 17-year-old Innis scored a unanimous decision against Damian Lepsis of Cranbrook in the 80-kilogram elite division. Innis stepped into the ring fresh off a week of learning and development at a Boxing Canada camp in Montreal, and was pretty much flawless on his way to the victory.
“Thunder put on a hell of a performance,” Lally said. “He absolutely dictated the fight for three rounds, showed why he was selected to go to that national training camp for sure.”
Innis already holds several titles in his young career, but this is his first provincial championship.
“It was so cool,” he said with a grin. “It was pretty much domination from start to finish.”
After Innis’s provincial gold, O’Flynn followed up with her own. In her title fight, she took on Camille Walker of Kelowna in a rematch from last year. Walker got the decision from the judges in 2025, but O’Flynn was not about to be denied this time around.
“She was nailing this girl with her right hand – don’t get me wrong, Melissa was getting hit too, but in the way that amateur boxing is scored, the first thing judges are looking for is quality shots, shots that are landing better, and you could hear the ‘thud’ of Melissa’s right hand,” Lally said.
Leading up to the fight, the 31-year-old O’Flynn put in a lot of training time with original Inner City coach Bob Pegues, who now lives in Quebec but has been on a stopover in Prince George since late August.
“We give lots of credit to Bob,” Lally said. “Bob’s been working with Melissa for about a month-and-a-half now, tightening her technique up, and we had a game plan and she stuck to it.”
O’Flynn lives in Quesnel and makes the drive to Prince George multiple times each week with her two young sons so she can train.
“Now she’s a provincial champion and it’s such a great feeling that we were able to help her get that,” Lally said.
Also on the provincial card, the 19-year-old Greenwood took bronze in the 70kg elite category after a win in his first fight and a loss in his second. Greenwood opened with a unanimous decision against Kashtin Charlie of Burns Lake, and that landed him in a semifinal bout against defending B.C. champion Torin Edmonds of Nelson.
Greenwood gave Edmonds a battle but didn’t get the result he wanted.
“You know your fighter’s ability, for sure, and I knew that we were in tough, but Josh surprised not just me, but everybody, with his performance,” Lally said. “He’s a kid with 15 fights, and he was right there with a provincial champion. It’s experience – Torin’s got different moves, different weapons. He’s had international experience as well, and we are so proud of Josh, our captain. He got a bronze medal for us.”
In the B.C. Bronze Gloves bracket, both the 15-year-old Young (66-70kg junior C) and 18-year-old Woodrow (55-60kg youth) were unstoppable. Young won three fights and Woodrow two on the way to their titles.
“We’ve been working with Adam and we believed that he was ready, and holy man was he ever,” Lally said. “He won a split decision in the quarterfinals, won a unanimous decision in the semis and then won another split decision in the final. It was amazing work. He needed to have belief in himself, what he’s actually capable of. And finally he found the belief in that first fight and he just kept going.”
Woodrow, meanwhile, was a pure beast in both of his victories.
“Canaan just dogged his guy in the final,” Lally said. “It was just relentless pressure. We’re super proud of him.”
For Inner City, the whole weekend was capped off by the coaches of the year recognition for Lally and Seehra.
“It was an amazing moment for Jag and I,” said Lally, who grew up side-by-side with Seehra during their careers as two of the top amateur boxers in B.C. and Canada. “They’ve never done two people as coach of the year, and that was one of the most emotional parts for me – after all these years, they get that we are together.
“At all times, Jag and I are a unit. And we made it very clear when we re-opened Inner City that we didn’t want ‘Kenny’ fighters and ‘Jag’ fighters. We wanted to work with this group collectively, as a team, as a family. To get recognized was a true honour.”
Next up for Inner City is the much-anticipated Night of the Wardogs 2, a hometown fight card set for Oct. 17 at the Roll-A-Dome.
Tickets are available online through the Inner City Boxing PG website or Facebook page.