[2] The Muhammad Ali vs. Floyd Patterson bout would be relocated to the Las Vegas Convention Center, and Lennie would instead fight Charley Scott in the Boston Garden.

[3] He once told Hugh Townsend[4] how training with Keith Paris[1] at the Creighton Street gym helped him grow into a hard puncher with a knack for good defence.

The newly crowned welterweight champion Lennie Sparks would head back to the United States and fight two more times in the following month of November.

[12] 21 days later, he was scheduled to appear in Madison Square Garden against Charley Scott of Philadelphia on the undercard of the first Muhammad Ali vs. Floyd Patterson bout on November 22, 1965.

[13] Two weeks after he was knocked out in Boston by Charley Scott, he was scheduled to fight a non-title bout in Montreal's Paul Sauvé Arena against Joey Durelle of Baie-Sainte-Anne, New Brunswick.

[14] The president of the Canadian Professional Boxing Federation told Nanaimo Daily News that Sparks was "lucky" he was not seriously injured and should not have been allowed to fight.

[15] After a nearly eight-month layoff, Lennie Sparks would fight Jim Meilleur in another non-title bout and lose a ten-round decision in Summerside, Prince Edward Island.

[20] 5 years after the title loss, the former Canadian welterweight champion would return to the ring a final time to fight Jerry Wells of Cleveland, Ohio, knocking him out in the sixth round in Halifax, Nova Scotia.