Al Delaney

Name: Al Delaney
Alias: Alex Borchuk
Birth Name: Alex Borchuk
Hometown: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Birthplace: Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Died: 1994-04-25 (Age:77)
Stance: Orthodox
Height: 187cm
Reach: 191cm
Pro Boxer: Record

Manager: Dolph Thomas (while in California), Jack Beaton (Michigan)

• Apparently the only Canadian to have fought Joe (Brown Bomber) Louis.
• He enlisted in the armed forces in 1942.
• He retired in 1945 and became a businessman in Windsor, Ontario.
• Convicted of a robbery in 1951, Delaney used the defense that he was "punch drunk."
• Died in 1994 and buried at Windsor Grove Cemetery

Biographical information courtesy of GOIN' THE DISTANCE: CANADA'S BOXING HERITAGE by Murray Greig.