It didn't matter how many Championship belts, trophies or tournaments you won, you knew you made it when you made the @TorontoSun paper in the Sunshine Boys Section.
It was in the early 1990's and I was very new to Toronto and the Atlas Boxing Gym when a girl was in the gym taking pictures of the different Champs that were in our gym. My Coach Adrian introduced me to the girl Silvia who asked if she could take a few pictures of me. I was definately up to it, and said for sure. Being new to Toronto, little did I know that this Silvia was Silvia Pecota from the Toronto Sun. Many of her pictures were taken for the Sunshine Boy section of that newspaper.
A few weeks later, I walked into one of my classes at Seneca College when I noticed I was getting some weird looks from my fellow classmates. Finally one of them pipes up and says Filane, you are a famous super model now!! and shows me my picture in the Sunshine Boy section of the Toronto Sun.
It is actually one of my favorite pictures from the glory days. Thanks Silvia.
Many of the Boxing Alumni have shown up in the Sunshine Boy Section.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was also aSunshine boy - read the Toronto Sun Story