Frankie Ryan

Name: Frankie Ryan
Hometown: Long Island City, Queens, New York, USA
Pro Boxer: Record

Frankie Ryan was a welterweight who peaked in the 1920s and reportedly beat some highly-regarded fighters, including Jimmy Duffy and Phil 'KO' Kaplan. After retiring from boxing, he was working for the New York Herald newspaper when a ream of paper fell on him and crushed his chest. A subsequent stroke left him bedridden for life. "I visited my uncle as often as I could," his nephew Craig Hamilton recalled. "He told me of the great days of boxing and how he rode the rails from town to town. He claimed to have met Jack Dempsey when Dempsey was doing the same thing."