A. Joseph DeNucci (August 30, 1939 – September 8, 2017)[4] was a middleweight boxer and the Auditor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

DeNucci started working at 10 in a bowling alley, picking up and racking pins.

DeNucci started boxing at 16, winning the New England Golden Gloves Championship.

[6] DeNucci served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for ten years, where he was chairman of the Human Services Committee.

[7] Postmortem analysis of DeNucci's brain confirmed that he experienced chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).