Known as a crafty, counter-puncher, Adam Trupish battled his way onto two Canadian Olympic Boxing teams during a long and distinguished amateur career.

An alternate for the 2000 Summer Olympics, Trupish stepped into the ring for Canada in Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008. In fact, he was the only Canadian boxer in any weight class to qualify for the 2008 Games. He lost in the first round at both Olympics, the second sparking media outrage at the lack of funding and support for amateur boxers in Canada.

A power-punching welterweight, AAingo, 2003) and the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Australia.

Once described as having “dynamite in both hands,” he won nine national titles and served as captain of the Canadian boxing team for four years.

Trupish didn’t try professional boxing until his early 30s, where eight of his 11 victories were by knockout.

He was enshrined in the Ontario Boxing Hall of Fame in 2019.

Trupish was born in London but moved to the Windsor area with his family as a child. He attended St. Anne’s Secondary School where classmate Andrew Kooner convinced him to try boxing at the Windsor Amateur Boxing Club. Both learned how to fight under legendary trainer Charlie Stewart, himself a Windsor/Essex County Sports Hall of Fame inductee in 2002.

By 2004, Trupish and Kooner were Olympic roommates.

Now they are a potent one-two punch as part of WECSHOF’s 2023 induction class.