Al McCoy (boxer)
Al McCoy was a boxing world middleweight champion from 1914 to 1917. He had a total of 157 bouts. Of those determined officially by boxing judges, he won 44 withby knockout, and hadlosses, anddraws. Around 107 of his fights were no decision bouts.
McCoy was born Alexander Rudolph in Rosenhayn, New Jersey on October 23, 1894. When he was a child, his family made a move to Brownsville in Brooklyn, New York, where his father found work as a kosher butcher. At the age of only fourteen, he helped his struggling family make ends meet by filling in as a boxer for preliminary fights at local boxing clubs, when the scheduled boxers failed to show. Ken Blady speculates that Charley Goldman, a former New York Jewish light and bantam weight boxer, who became his manager, had him change his surname to McCoy to hide his boxing from his religious parents who would have objected. Ken Blady made the stunning observation that for his first nine years and 139 fights, roughly from 1908 when he began fighting at fourteen to 1917, when he lost the Middleweight World Title, McCoy was undefeated. This made his winning streak second only to English boxer Hal Bagwell, although the fact that a nodecision bout did not officially count as a loss, probably a
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