{"id":889336,"date":"2026-09-09T14:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T14:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/889336\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T14:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T14:58:16","slug":"innis-and-lally-off-to-boxing-canada-camp-in-montreal-prince-george-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/889336\/","title":{"rendered":"Innis and Lally off to Boxing Canada camp in Montreal \u2013 Prince George Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Coach Jag Seehra, left, boxer Thunder Innis and coach Kenny Lally pose for a photo inside Inner City Boxing PG. Innis and Lally are heading to Montreal for a Boxing Canada training camp.<\/p>\n

Boxing Canada has its eyes on Thunder Innis and Kenny Lally.<\/p>\n

Innis and Lally \u2013 fighter and coach respectively with Inner City Boxing PG \u2013 are two of the invitees to a national training camp that starts Thursday in Montreal. Innis is one of nine B.C. boxers who will be in attendance, and Lally will serve as B.C.\u2019s head coach.<\/p>\n

The camp will be held over the course of six days at Boxing Canada\u2019s national training centre. It\u2019s for fighters in the under-23 age category and is part of the organization\u2019s identification process for boxers who have the potential to represent Canada in the near future.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is going to be an amazing opportunity for Thunder, and it\u2019s a cool honour for me,\u201d Lally said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt first I thought maybe Team Canada is getting ready for an international meet and they\u2019re trying to get the team ready, but this is a testing camp,\u201d Lally added. \u201cSo this is really big for us. There\u2019s a new category called being a prospect, so if Thunder is a prospect it means he is on Boxing Canada\u2019s radar and without being a national champion they will give him some attention and maybe even send him to some international invitationals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Innis has been making a name for himself ever since he started boxing at Inner City three years ago. At his first national championship tournament in March in Calgary, he nearly beat two-time Canadian champ Josue Kouie of Quebec and finished with a bronze medal in the 80-kilogram class for under-19 fighters. His performance earned him the invitation to this camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s such a privilege to get this opportunity, to know that I did get something from nationals,\u201d said the 17-year-old Innis, a proud member of the Key First Nation in Saskatchewan. \u201cFighting Josue Kouie, it was a good fight but he got the better of me. Coming away from that, it was hard trying to get something good from that experience, and all these months later I find out I impressed someone there. It\u2019s so cool that someone\u2019s finally seeing my potential. And so getting this opportunity, and just me and coach Kenny going, it\u2019s unbelievable.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking to go there and solidify my name. I\u2019m going to leave my mark on this camp and on everyone who\u2019s there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Innis carried an 8-1 record into that national tournament. The Boxing Canada camp comes at the perfect time because he\u2019s fresh off an Inner City high-performance camp that helped him further sharpen his already impressive skills.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything\u2019s coming together for me,\u201d Innis said. \u201cI\u2019m always looking to get better and asking coaches what I can improve on, and so far they\u2019ve been telling me to just keep doing what I\u2019m doing. For me, that\u2019s the greatest feeling, for my coaches to tell me I\u2019m on the right path. It\u2019s getting to the point where it\u2019s minute, minute details. I\u2019m so pleased that I\u2019ve gotten to this level. It\u2019s very, very cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Inner City, Lally coaches alongside longtime training partner and friend Jag Seehra. Both are past members of Team Canada. With that perspective in mind, Lally says this national camp is a \u201chuge\u201d milestone for Innis.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Jag and Thunder and I sat down and started this journey, we laid it down and told him the path to get to the national team, and he\u2019s done every single task so far,\u201d Lally said. \u201cWe\u2019re at the end of year three, and Inner City Boxing is heading to a national training camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he\u2019ll impress with the shape that he\u2019s in, and how ready he is for this camp, because he just got off our camp. As I was as an athlete, lots of times you take the summer off and you\u2019re not training as hard so we\u2019re hoping that Thunder might have the edge on some of these guys \u2013 that they\u2019re just coming off the summer, while he\u2019s been training since Aug. 1. We\u2019re looking for Thunder to do some big things, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

The camp will include physical testing, partner work and lots of action inside the ring.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019ll be sparring high-level guys from across the nation,\u201d Lally said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be wicked for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lally, meanwhile, is looking forward to providing guidance and motivation to the B.C. fighters at the camp. In his role, he\u2019ll be teaming up with Naseem Bains of Surrey\u2019s Mendoza Boxing Club.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never worked with her but I\u2019m super excited,\u201d he said. \u201cThey asked Jag and I both but Jag has other obligations right now, so for sure I hopped on the opportunity. I\u2019m excited to work with some high-level athletes, especially coming off the camp here. Just like we planned for Thunder to get here, Jag and I also planned our way to try and get on Team B.C. and help these athletes get to the national team so everything\u2019s coming together. We\u2019ve had some roadblocks for sure, but like our coach Bob Pegues taught us, you\u2019ve just got to keep pushing through the hard times.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coach Jag Seehra, left, boxer Thunder Innis and coach Kenny Lally pose for a photo inside Inner City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-889336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}