With Hope It’s Possible, The Fitz Vanderpool Comeback at Age 45
By Robert Brizel, Real Media Correspondent
Waterloo, Ontario( March 3rd, 2013)– In the humble city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Fitzroy Vanderpool owns and runs Vanderpool Boxing & Fitness. Vanderpool, has won five title belts of different kinds during his boxing career from 1993 to 2012. After winning a ten round decision over Jose Luis Rodrigues in Las Vegas in 2002, Vanderpool was stopped in 2003, 2004, and 2005, and retired with a ring record of 24-7-4 with 13 knockouts.
At age 45, why has Fitz ‘The Whip’ Vanderpool returned to the ring? Perhaps older, wiser, and more disciplined, it’s hard to say exactly why. His nickname ‘The Whip’ stands for W.H.I.P., which means ‘With Hope It’s Possible’. His own motivation and inspiration, Fitz Vanderpool returned to the ring in Ontario, Canada in September 2012, and won a six round comeback unanimous decision over Phil Rose.
A Canadian Welterweight and WBC FECARBOX Welterweight champion, and World Boxing Federaton Light Middleweight champion, Vanderpool is best known for the big fights he did not win, including bouts with Reggie Green, Hercules Kyvelos, Ferando Vargas, Marco Antonio Rubio, Marco Antonio Avendano, Charles Murray, Moses Carter, Ray Oliveira (ten round draw), Robert West (draw) and Leon Pearson (draw). The Trinidad and Tobago born Vanderpool holds a 12-3-1 record in his native Canada, and also has fought in Mexico and the United States.
Previously fighting at 139 to 154 pounds, the latest version of Vanderpool is fighting at 158 to 160 pounds, and would not appear to be a serious middleweight threat to Sergio Gabriel Martinez, Julio Cesar Chavez, or Daniel Geale, but who knows?
Vanderpool went ten rounds for the first time in over a decade, winning a ten round decision over Roberto McClellan and father time to win the vacant Canada National Boxing Authority NBA Middleweight title in New Brunswick, Canada, on March 2, 2013, a fine comeback win, the oldest fighter to hold a Canadian regional title since George Chuvalo defended the Canadian Heavyweight title at age 43 over George Jerome in Toronto, Canada, in December 1978, Chuvalo’s final ring appearance.
The NBA Canadian Middleweight title is a new Canadian regional belt. There is a separate Canadian Middleweight title which has been vacant for three years, last held by Adam Trupish on Edmonton in 2010. Canadian middleweight journeyman Michael Walchuk, a loser of five straight bouts since 2010, somehow qualified to fight for the vacant Canadian Middleweight title on May 25, 2013, against 20-1 Albert Onolunose, who is best known for his second round knockout loss to contender Grady Brewer in 2009. Walchuk lost to Trupish in the last Canadian regional Middleweight title bout in 2010. Vanderpool could be a candidate to fight the winner of Walchuk versus Onolunose by virtue of his recent regional title win.
By virtue of his ten round regional title win, Vanderpool is more qualified to fight Onolunose than Walchuk. Former WBC World Middleweight champion Dave Hilton Jr. was the last significant fighter of note to hold the Canadian Middleweight title, which he won by twelfth round stoppage in 1998 and defended the following year. The Canadian belts can lead to a world title bout opportunity, but it depends on circumstance.
21 years ago, Vanderpool debuted with a second round knockout of Valentino Cruz in Chelsea, Massachusetts, in January 1993. The clock is now ticking for Fitz ‘The Whip’ Vanderpool, who seems destined to reenter the ring again. His purpose seems to be validating the statement which made him famous. With hope it’s possible. Indeed, with hope anything is possible. So say we all.
For Fitz Vanderpool at age 45, a Waterloo businessman, physical trainer, International Fire Safety Ambassador, and long forgotten contender, it’s a comeback with divine inspiration. So far ‘The Battle of Canadian Waterloo’ belongs to ‘The Whip’. Indeed, Vanderpool’s winning last stand is fairing better than loser Emperor Napoleon’s did in the historical Belgian ‘Battle of Waterloo’ on June 18, 1815. The word Waterloo has entered the English vocabulary as a slang term for one who has met with defeat after a string of successes, who is then said to have ‘met his Waterloo’. For Fitz Vanderpool, not yet.
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