132 wins. He lost 14 times and was held to a draw once. McAvoy was included in The Ring magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time. The boxing statistics site BoxRec rates McAvoy as the tenth best British boxer of all time, the second best British boxer of all time in the middleweight division, behind Randolph Turpin and the thirty-ninth best middleweight in the history of boxing. Retirement and death In 1951, he was stricken with polio and used a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He had survived both diphtheria and a broken neck prior to his bout with polio. Suffering from insomnia and depression, McAvoy committed suicide by overdosing on barbiturates at his home in Partington, Cheshire, England, on 20 November 1971. See also List of British light-heavyweight boxing champions List of British middleweight boxing champions References External links 1908 births 1971 suicides Light-heavyweight boxers Sportspeople from Rochdale English male boxers Drug-related suicides in England Barbiturates-related deaths 1971 deaths