Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I ahu whakamua tana mahi me nga wikitoria i runga i nga kaiwhakataetae taumaha o te ra, penei i a Fireman Jim Flynn, Alfred "Soldier" Kearns, Arthur Pelkey me Ed "Gunboat" Smith. I waenga i te Oketopa 1915 me te Hanuere 1916, e rua nga wa i whawhai ai ia ki a Frank Moran i
Ko Madison Square Garden, ko te tukinga tuarua he kaiwhakawhiwhi mo te tangata ka haere ki te wero i te toa hou o te ao taumaha a Jess Willard. Heoi anō mō Coffey, i toa a Moran i ngā whakataetae e rua.