Top young boxers from BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan will be in Prince George this fall to put their skills and punching power to the test at Night of the Wardogs.
The event will be held Oct. 25 at the Roll-A-Dome. Inner City Boxing PG is the host club and will have at least four of its fighters in the ring — Thunder Innis, Josh Greenwood, Ben Ruttan and Audrey Edmunds. Inner City coaches Jag Seehra and Kenny Lally are also looking to line up matches for members of the club’s development team.
The Inner City club was reborn 18 months ago under former star pupils Seehra and Lally, and they’re excited to be at the point where they can host their first card of this new era.
“It’s surreal,” Seehra said. “We just can’t believe it’s happening so fast. The turnout we’re getting in the gym, the way the Wardogs are working, it’s just amazing that this is happening so soon.”
Seehra says the card should feature about 13 bouts.
“We have connections in Alberta from competing there so much over the years, and we have connections with people in Saskatchewan as well so we’re looking to make it like a Western Canadian showdown,” he said.
Innis and Greenwood are slated to fight in the two main events of the night. Innis’s opponent is yet to be determined, while Greenwood will go toe-to-toe with Devin Armstrong of Fort Nelson.
The 16-year-old Innis and the 18-year-old Greenwood were two of the first boxers to join the new version of Inner City in early 2024, and both are on impressive trajectories.
In Innis’s first eight months of competition, he won B.C. Bronze Gloves, Alberta Silver Gloves and Alberta Golden Gloves championships – a rare accomplishment in such a short period of time. As for Greenwood, his most significant feat to date came in Calgary in March, when he punched his way to a gold medal at Canada Cup 2025. His 2-0 record not only gave him the Canada Cup title, it also made him Boxing Canada’s top-ranked novice fighter in the 65-kilogram weight class.
Innis says he’s proud of the mark he and his clubmates are leaving, and he’s looking forward to being part of Night of the Wardogs.
“It’s awesome that Kenny and Jag have done this, and I’m so glad that we’re a team,” he said. “It’s going to be a great, great show, I can promise you that.”
Historically, Night of the Wardogs will be the first fight card Inner City has hosted since May 11, 2013. That evening at the Northern Sport Centre, Seehra, Lally and their coach, Bob Pegues, all ducked under the ropes for matches. Seehra took on Nick Jefferson of Tacoma, Wash., Lally fought Hector Rondon, also of Tacoma, and Pegues had a masters tilt against Mickey Sims of Salmon Arm.
“This is a homecoming for us,” Seehra said. “Twelve years ago was the last time local boxing fans saw Inner City fighters on an Inner City fight card, so coming back now 12 years later, they’re in for a surprise, for sure. These kids have worked hard and it’s time to showcase the skills they’ve been working on.”
In Lally’s view, that development so far should have Innis, Greenwood, Ruttan and Edmunds ready for the challenge of competing in front of a hometown crowd.
“As coaches, we hope that they come showing their “A” game, but we are realists here and we understand that fighting in your hometown is a whole different thing, with the nerves and all that,” Lally said. “But that’s the reason that we waited this long. We took our team on the road, we taught them how to deal with their nerves, what the fights feel like, so that when they fight here, they have a better understanding of how to deal with that.”
The boxers who handle the pressure the best and come out as winners will get some pretty splashy rewards.
“One thing Jag and I always wanted when we fought was big belts,” Lally said. “And we always got medals and trophies. So we’ve teamed up with Van Horlicks Trophies and Gifts and a couple sponsors from around town to design these big, big championship belts. So each winner will get a championship belt and each sponsor will also get a championship belt. It’s going to be really cool.”
Information about tickets for Night of the Wardogs will be released soon.
