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Boyd "Rainmaker" Melson 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 tall, and weighs . 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. ==Early and academic life== 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: "My grandfather, while being put onto a train en route to a death camp, escaped by sliding down the receptor tank full of defecation. It deposited him down the track allowing the train to pass over him until he could run off escaping. That is what he did to fight for his life and allow his bloodline of Judaism to pass down to his children, and now his grandchildren in me.” He boxes with a Star of David on his trunks. Melson grew up primarily in Brooklyn, New York.〔〔 Melson graduated from West Point in 2003 with a psychology degree, and a minor in nuclear engineering. He also graduated as a lieutenant, and was promoted to captain three years later.〔〔 He earned an MBA in business administration at Touro College.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boyd Melson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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