page_title: Monte Attell
section_title: World bantamweight champion, 1909
hierarchical_section_title: Monte Attell / World bantamweight champion, 1909
caption_attribution_description: English: A black and white photo of Frankie Neil, world bantamweight championship boxer with left arm outstretched, shirtless, in white trunks.
context_page_description: Monte Attell, 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 bantamweight title holder Frankie Neil. He held the title until February 22, 1910.
  In his career he faced world bantamweight champion Jimmy Reagan and the lesser known Danny Webster in title defenses, and after losing his title, Frankie Britt, and champions Johnny Kilbane, and Joe Lynch.
context_section_description: On June 19, 1909, Monte Attell won the World Bantamweight title defeating former champion Frankie Neil at Coffroth's Arena, in an eighteenth-round knockout in Colma, California.  The bout was billed as a championship for the world bantamweight title.  According to W. W. Naughton writing for the Oakland Tribune, Attell won every round of the eighteen round bout, which was ended by a full left handed blow to the chin of Frankie Neil. Neil reportedly "took a terrible mauling without flinching.  From the very first it was apparent that the only chance Neil had was to outgame Attell and wear him down by persistent rushing for he was being outpunched at least two to one and the blows of the Hebrew fighter (Attell) were not the easiest either."   Though Neil was the aggressor through much of the bout, Attell "peppered Neil with straight lefts", brought crushing rights to the jaw, and delivered solid rights to the midsection that eventually took their toll on his opponent. In the fifteenth, Neil was down from a left to the stomach, and twice he stumbled to his hands and knees in the clinches.  He was nearly finished at the end of the round from lefts and rights but was saved by the fifteenth's closing bell.  Though Attell could not finish Neal in the next two rounds, but in the eighteenth, as Neil first approached, Attell finished him with a straight left to the jaw that put him down for the count.  Neil had last held the title in 1904, before losing it to British bantamweight Joe Bowker.
  In the seven months following his winning the title on June 19, 1909, Attell successfully defended it seven times.
caption: Frankie Neil, 1904 Bantamweight Champion
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