Tom McNeeley
Boxing, Boxer
1937 – 2011
Who was Tom McNeeley?
Thomas William McNeeley, Jr. was a heavyweight boxer in the 1950s and 1960s. He hailed from Arlington, Massachusetts, and played football for Michigan State University. McNeeley had his first professional bout at the Norwood Stockcar Arena July 17, 1958.
On December 4, 1961, McNeeley challenged Floyd Patterson for the world heavyweight championship. McNeeley was on the November 13, 1961 cover of Sports Illustrated. McNeeley served eight years as the boxing commissioner of the Massachusetts State Boxing Commission.
Tom McNeeley's son Peter McNeeley and father, Tom McNeeley, Sr., were also boxers.
Tom McNeeley died on October 25, 2011 at the age of 74 of complications from a seizure.
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- Born
- Feb 27, 1937
Cambridge - Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Michigan State University
- Died
- Oct 25, 2011
Weymouth
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on July 23, 2013
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