Youngblood's post resume the situation quite well: It is superbly alive in Quebec (the province, not only the city) in the amateur ranks and it starts to have huge huge repercussion at the professional level. Ontario starts to beat at the same pulse as Quebec though it,s still far behind in matter of amateur and professional championship but I think it'll come equal at some point. Stephane Ouellet in Quebec (the disgracied #1 contender who became a poet and who felt into drugs and alcohol big time) started the movement with the Company Interbox at the time but it is really Otis Grant and Eric Lukas who did lighted the sparks and the popularity of the sport, peoples knew Gatti but weren't into boxing that much still but then Lucas, Grant did put indirectly more spotlight on Gatti and people realized that though he was established in NJ, he was from here and bang, there we are with a couple more champions that has been created with Dorin, Molitor, Alcine, Pascal and Diaconu.
So now, Boxing is huge here, Bute can easily drag 20 000 peoples at the Bell Center for a huge showdown otherwise, selling 10-15000 seats for Pascal is not difficult at all neither but still, Hockey is THE sport over in Canada and by far but boxing is conquering more ground every days and it starts to be interestingly big over there.