15 Facts About Frankie Neil

Frankie Neil later was reputed to have lost much of his boxing fortune at the horse track and from investing in race horses.

Frankie Neil worked for Standard Oil in his retirement from boxing.

Not long before his first attempt at the bantamweight championship, on April 11,1902, Frankie Neil fought a grueling fifteen-round draw against Eddie Hanlon, who was only seventeen at the time.

Frankie Neil first tried for the bantamweight title against Harry Forbes on December 23,1902, but lost in a seventh-round TKO in Oakland, California.

Frankie Neil took the world title from reigning champion Harry Forbes on August 13,1903, at the Mechanics Pavilion in San Francisco in a second-round knockout of a match scheduled for twenty rounds.

Frankie Neil took the American Bantamweight Title from Harry Tenny on July 28,1905, in a twenty-five round bout at the Colma Club in Colma, California.

Frankie Neil claimed years later in an interview that he was never able to hit with the same ferocity after hearing of the death of Tenny.

On July 4,1906, Frankie Neil would move up a class and take a shot at the World Featherweight Championship against the exceptional reigning champion Abe Attell, who had held the title since 1902, but would retain it for an additional six years.

Frankie Neil lost the 20 round bout in a points decision at the Naud Junction Pavilion in Los Angeles.

Frankie Neil was knocked out by a full left under the chin in the eighteenth round, but was markedly tired by the fifteenth.

The Tribune wrote that Frankie Neil was not the boxer of the caliber he had been a few years previously, though Attell was a boxer of exceptional skill.

Frankie Neil was working for Standard Oil in Richmond, California by June 1926, and had lived in Richmond since the early 1920s.

Frankie Neil had previously lost his boxing fortune from investing in a large stable of race horses and from his personal losses from betting on the races.

Frankie Neil died on March 6,1970, at 86, in Richmond, California after an illness of several months, and was buried three days later at Mt.

Frankie Neil had been working as a janitor at a local Post Office in his later years, living at Point Richmond.