Kid Murphy
Name: Kid Murphy
Birth Name: Peter Frascella
Hometown: New York, New York, USA
Birthplace: Trenton, New Jersey, USA
Died: 1963-10-10 (Age:77)
Height: 156cm
Pro Boxer: Record
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Kid Murphy hailed from Trenton, New Jersey. He claimed the 105-pound Paperweight Championship of America after a private fight with Willie Schumacher in 1906 at Westchester, New York. Eight months later Schumacher outpointed Murphy at New York after 25 rounds of another private fight. During 1907, no longer a paperweight, Murphy claimed the 110-pound American title. He lost that claim in 1908 to Johnny Coulon at Peoria, Illinois in ten rounds. Later that month he lost a ten-rounder to the Chicago Spider for the title.
Murphy was inducted into the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame.
Sources: IBRO Journal #78, p. 55; Police Gazette Sporting Annual, 1906-09 editions; Ring Battles of Centuries, 1913 edition.
Kehler: according to the "Trenton Evening Times" (Trenton, NJ) (3-8-1926, p. 15), his name at birth was Vito Frascella, and he was almost completely blind in his 30s as a result of injury suffered in the ring. Another edition of the Trenton newspaper mentioned that Kid Murphy had been managed by Johnny Torrio. Torrio was a Brooklyn gangster who moved to Chicago and was responsible for bringing Al Capone from Brooklyn to Chicago.