Fight:667183

Benny Pelz beat Frankie Grandetta by PTS in round 10 of 10

• Date: 1926-09-14
• Location: Armory, Portland, Oregon, USA

Grandetta had turned down a handwritten invitation to attend the funeral of his friend, the actor Rudolph Valentino. Another actor friend of Grandetta's, Buster Keaton, was ringside. Grandetta announced on September 18, 1926 that he was going to take a job at a logging camp in Yacolt, WA. "You can say for me that I'm going out to the bright open spaces where men are men and there aren't any women" he was quoted as saying in the Portland Oregonian