1. Abe Attell was suspected of other infractions including fixing fights, and using drugs during a fight.
20 Facts About Abe Attell
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Abe Attell was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Jewish parents.
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Abe Attell said as a kid, he sometimes had up to 10 bouts each day.
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Abe Attell successfully defended his title twenty-two times between 1906 and 1912, which to this day remains a division record.
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Abe Attell was often called "The Little Champ" or "The Little Hebrew" by newspapers.
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From 1909 to 1910, his brother Monte Abe Attell, called the "Nob Hill Terror", held the Bantamweight Championship, making them the first brothers to hold world titles simultaneously.
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Abe Attell defeated American 1905 World Bantamweight Champion Jimmy Walsh three times in title matches; on September 12,1907, for a ten-round decision in Indianapolis, on December 7,1906, in a ten-round TKO in Los Angeles, and on February 22,1906, for a fifteen-round decision in Chelsea, Massachusetts, in which Abe Attell "badly punished" Walsh.
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Not surprisingly, Abe Attell was the odds on favorite for the December 1906 fight.
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Abe Attell met Attell twice in non-title matches on April 3,1913, in New York in a ten-round loss by decision and on October 24,1912, in a twelve-round draw in Boston.
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Abe Attell lost his World Featherweight Title to Johnny Kilbane in 1912, in a 20-round decision.
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Kilbane claimed that Abe Attell's handlers put chloroform on the fighter's glove to blind him.
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On July 4,1913, Abe Attell accidentally hit a referee during a win against Willie Beecher.
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Abe Attell coached him to a 33 Win, 11 Loss, 3 Draw record in 47 career fights.
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Abe Attell gave up the shoe business around June 1916 to go into vaudeville.
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Abe Attell's name was later linked to the infamous Black Sox baseball scandal of 1919.
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Abe Attell was alleged to have been the bag man for gambler Arnold Rothstein and to have given $10,000 to several Chicago White Sox players.
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In 1920 Abe Attell was accused of being the messenger between the gangster Rothstein and players of the Chicago White Sox baseball organization, during the planning stages of the fix of the 1919 World Series.
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The Black Sox scandal was considered a major outrage in sports and Abe Attell's name appeared in newspaper headlines related to the scandal.
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Abe Attell died in New Paltz, New York, on February 7,1970.
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Abe Attell was inducted posthumously as a member of various halls of fame:.