Frankie Conley (October 4, 1890 – August 21, 1952) was a

bantamweight Bantamweight is a weight class in combat sports. For boxing, the range is above and up to . In kickboxing, a bantamweight fighter generally weighs between . In MMA, bantamweight is . The name for the class is derived from bantam chickens. B ...

boxing champion.

Biography

He was born on October 4, 1890 in Platania, Calabria, Italy as Francesco Conte. He became the bantamweight boxing champion of the world when he

knocked out A knockout (abbreviated to KO or K.O.) is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, mixed martial arts, karate, some forms of taekwondo and other sports involving strikin ...

Monte Attell Monte Attell (July 28, 1885 – November 11, 1960), born in the Knob Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States, was an American boxer who took the vacant World Bantamweight title on June 19, 1909 by defeating the 1904 bantamwe ...

in 42 rounds on February 22, 1910. In 1912 he was

Mexican Joe Rivers Mexican Joe Rivers (born Jose Ybarra, March 19, 1892 – June 26, 1957) was a lightweight boxer whose ring career lasted from 1910 to 1923. Biography Rivers was born in Los Angeles on March 19, 1892 to Andrew Ybarra. He was a fourth generation ...

. He died on August 21, 1952 in

Kenosha, Wisconsin Kenosha () is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Kenosha County. Per the 2020 census, the population was 99,986 which made it the fourth-largest city in Wisconsin. Situated on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan, Kenos ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Conley, Frankie Bantamweight boxers World bantamweight boxing champions 1890 births 1952 deaths Italian emigrants to the United States American people of Italian descent American male boxers Sportspeople from Kenosha, Wisconsin