Ottawa's Bruiser taken down for licensing offences
By LISA LISLE -- Ottawa Sun
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Fred 'Bruiser' Leeks as the EWF champ. -- SLAM! Wrestling file photo
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An Ottawa wrestler was slapped with $2,500 in fines yesterday after
losing three out of four rounds in the courtroom.
Frederick 'Bruiser' Leeks, 35, was found guilty of three offences after
organizing a wrestling match at Straits Dance Hall last year without getting a
licence.
Originally charged with holding a sporting event without a licence, failing
to submit gate taxes and two advertising offences, Leeks said he was
victorious because he won one of the two misleading advertising offences --
"the one that mattered."
Dangerous Dan Gervais, another local wrestler, claimed that Leeks
advertised a match between the pair but Gervais was never invited to wrestle
at the match.
The man provided the court with a poster showing a body but no head on a
wrestler and claimed it was his muscular physique in the photo. Gervais
eventually admitted it wasn't his body on the poster.
The bar, now bankrupt, and the owner were also fined for running a sporting
event without a licence.
