Wayne Bourque

In 2009, after several years of declining an invitation, he decided to participate in the Ringside World Championships.

His mother Clara Bourque is featured in Mark of the MetisL Traditional Knowledge and Stories of the Metis People in Northeastern Alberta (2009).

Wayne even appeared as the corner man in the first fight scene with Russell Crowe, in the movie Cinderella Man (2005). He also trained Crowe for the movie.

In 1994, he became a fitness trainer and is the owner of the boxercise centre Centre Ring. His clients have included many NHL players like Matt Stajan - Calgary Flames, Olympian Marnie McBean and players of St.Michael's Buzzers.He leads a summer camp in Toronto, Ontario, Canada where participants use boxing exercises to get fit without the physical contact of boxing matches.

After retirement, Bourque moved to Toronto in 1987 for a fresh start away from partying and drinking beer. Starting off selling cellphones and plumbing, he learned of the 'boxercise' trend and his wife, Carol, encouraged him to seize the moment.

He won his first tournament, the Northwest Pacific Gold Gloves, at the age of 13 in Seattle. His boxing career totaled 130 fights with approximately 109 wins and 21 defeats. Bourque retired from amateur boxing in 1985 after receiving a knee injury while skiing eighteen days before the Olympic trials.

Wayne Bourque (born 1959) is a Canadian boxer known as the 'flurry from Fort McMurray". He has been the North American Native boxing champion three times in the welterweight and middleweight classes.

He was born in 1959 in Lac La Biche, Alberta to Métis parents and has four siblings. He was raised and trained in Fort McMurray. To protect himself from racist attacks, he learned to box.