Frankie Burns
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Frankie Burns
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| Statistics | |
| Real name | Frankie Burns |
| Nickname(s) | "Jersey" Frankie Burns |
| Rated at | Bantamweight |
| Height | 5 ft 4.5 in (1.64 m) |
| Reach | 67.5 in (171 cm) |
| Nationality |
 American |
| Born |
June 24, 1889 Jersey City, New Jersey |
| Died | April 10, 1961 (aged 71) Jersey City, New Jersey |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Boxing record | |
| Total fights | 186 (Includes Newspaper Decisions) |
| Wins | 138 |
| Wins by KO | 21 |
| Losses | 24 |
| Draws | 24 |
Frankie Burns (June 24, 1889 – April 10, 1961) was a top rated American bantamweight boxer from New Jersey who contended four times for the World Bantamweight Championship between 1912 and 1917, twice meeting Johnny Coulon. Founder of Ring Magazine, Nat Fleischer ranked Burns as the #8 All-Time Bantamweight.
Burns began boxing professionally in 1908. Between March 1908 and March 1920, fighting primarily in the New York area, Burns won twelve and lost six of twenty bouts partly during New York's no decision era. His record was impressive, if not stellar, though his competition was talented. On September 26, 1908, he knocked out "Buffalo" Eddie Kelly, a strong puncher who would go on to challenge Abe Attell twice that year for the World Featherweight Championship.
On February 15, 1910, Burns defeated Jewish boxer Charley Goldman for the first time in a ten-round decision of the Boston Globe at New York City's Brown's Gym. He defeated Goldman again on December 27, 1910 at the Armory in Rochester, New York in a six-round newspaper decision of the New York Times. Goldman did some great infighting in the second round but Burns dominated in the other five rounds. Goldman would go on to become one of America's greatest boxing trainers with Rocky Marciano as his best known trainee.
On March 31, 1911, Burns lost to the great ex-Featherweight champion Abe Attell at New York's New Amsterdam Opera House in a ten-round newspaper decision in what was likely a no-decision bout. Burns was down in the ninth and tenth rounds, and most New York newspapers gave the bout to Attell.
On October 23, 1911, Burns defeated Monte Attell in a non-title ten round newspaper decision of New Orleans' Daily Times-Picayune. Monte Attell, brother of Abe, had formerly held the World Bantamweight title from 1909-10. New Orleans' Times-Democrat gave six of the ten rounds to Burns who they believed deserved the decision in the fairly close bout. The Democrat gave only the fourth clearly to Attell, who slipped in the tenth and was very briefly down. The Democrat called the fifth, sixth, and eighth rounds even. The bout was an important showing for Burns, and helped him secure a title bout with Coulon the following year.
On February 18, 1912, Burns first challenged Johnny Coulon for the World Bantamweight Championship at the Westside Athletic Club in Gretna, Louisiana, losing in a twenty-round points decision. The Scranton Republican wrote that Coulon "was met with such an onslaught...that a number of Burns' supporters thought he should have at least had a draw." There was only one knockdown in the close bout which came in the first minute of the last round by Coulon, which may have sealed his victory. Burns dropped from a left hook to the jaw but was up in an instant and fighting hard.
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