Image provided by Oliver Barrett. When your 50th birthday is on the horizon and your wife and all the champion fighters you’ve ever trained want to make a tribute to your life’s work thus far, folks come to us to do it right.
In this cinebration, we scanned childhood photos and scrapbook collections of newspaper clippings chronicling the championships. Then we downloaded Instagram fight videos to pay tribute to legendary boxing trainer, landscape artist, father and husband Richard LeStage for a surprise birthday and tribute dinner.
Though the plan was to play the tribute modestly in the background of the evening, once they hit play the whole room stopped and watched attentively. So they turned up the soundtrack (thankfully we put it there just in case…) and all enjoyed together. At the end, we included a montage of the best fights in history, which was an all-around hit (pun intended).