He announced boxing and wrestling matches in Allentown, Pennsylvania, from the 1920s through the 1980s and gained national exposure on WWWF and WWF programming in the 1970s and 1980s.
[1] He announced boxing and wrestling matches primarily in Allentown and the surrounding Lehigh Valley area during the region's heyday as a fight town.
[3] He announced fights featuring a number of notable boxers, including Rocky Marciano, Larry Holmes, Muhammad Ali, and Jack Sharkey.
[3] In 1977, the WWWF, later renamed the WWF, began holding television tapings at the Allentown Fairgrounds's Agricultural Hall, which gave McHugh national exposure.
WWF stopped taping in Allentown in 1984, but McHugh continued to announce regional wrestling shows until his death on January 31, 1993.