Boyd Melson
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| Nickname(s) | Rainmaker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rated at | Light middleweight | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 United States |
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| Born |
October 16, 1981 White Plains, New York |
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| Wins | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Losses | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Draws | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Boyd "Rainmaker" Melson (born October 16, 1981) is an American light middleweight boxer.
As an amateur, Melson won the 48th World Military Boxing Championship gold medal in the 69 kg. weight class, and was a four-time United States Army champion, a three-time NCBA All-American boxer, a four-time West Point Brigade Open Boxing Champion, and received the Colonel Marcus Award. He also won gold medals at the All Army Boxing Championships twice and at the Armed Forces Boxing Championships twice. He made it to the quarterfinals in the welterweight 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships, and won a bronze medal at the 2005 US Amateur Boxing Championships.
As a professional, through May 2015, Melson was 15–1–1, with 4 of his wins coming by knockout. He is 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall, and weighs 154 lb (70 kg). Melson donates all of the money that he earns in his boxing matches to stem cell research and his efforts have been profiled on Emmy Award winning HBO series Real Sports, ESPN.com, Sports Illustrated and Yahoo.
In 2013, he was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
Melson is Jewish, and was born in White Plains, New York, to an Israeli Jewish mother (Annette Melson; also an Army veteran) and a Creole father. His maternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors from Poland. He said:
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