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[email protected] Name: Charles Kid McCoy Alias: Kid McCoy Birth Name: Norman Selby Born: 1872-10-13 Birthplace: Warsaw, Indiana, USA Died: 1940-04-18 (Age:67) Nationality: US American Hometown: Detroit, Michigan, USA Height: 5′ 11½″ / 182cm Reach: 76″ / 193cm Boxing Record: click The World 2 January 1900 KID M'COY, INVENTOR OF NEWEST KNOCKOUT. Norman Selby, whoso fighting name is Kid McCoy, is an American lad, born Twenty six years ago in Rush County, Indiana. He comes of Kentucky stock, his ancestors having lived for generations in the Blue Grass country. Selby is the newest development in the art of pugilism. He knocked Peter Maher out with a little left-hand punch on the side of the chin. The blow travelled not much more than six inches. Selby invented the blow. He calls it the corkscrew punch. He delivers it with either hand, feinting: apparently at random until he has moved the fist up within six inches of its target, then cracking it in with a twist as if he wore turning a corkscrew. The blow starts from the elbow only, and is not followed by the weight of the body. Selby can throw it in equally well whether coming in or running away. 2 Selby is a tall, thin, pale youth, modest in manner and not much of a talker. He has curly brown hair, sallow skin, and hazel eyes that gleam coldly when he is fighting.