Frankie Murray
Name: Frankie Murray
Alias: Frankie Carrozza
Birth Name: Frank Joseph Anthony Carrozza
Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthplace: Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1964-09-21 (Age:66)
Height: 157cm
Pro Boxer: Record
Frankie Murray (Frank Carrozza) started his professional boxing career in Baltimore, Maryland, fighting most frequently in Baltimore and Philadelphia. In 1925 he went to California and did most of his fighting in western rings until the end of his career.
There were three good boxers from Philadelphia named "Frankie Murray" who were contemporaries and of about the same size. The others were Al (Battling) Murray and Johnny Murray.
According to the U.S. Census records on the Ancestry.com website, one Frank J. "Carozza," a 41-year-old divorced native of Pennsylvania, was living in Stockton, California during 1940. He was listed as a "Boxer" and an "Instructor."
According to the California Death Index records on the Ancestry.com website, one Frank Carrozza was born on May 25, 1898 and died on September 21, 1964 in San Bernardino County, California.
This record was researched by, and is courtesy of, Laurence Fielding of the International Boxing Research Organization (IBRO # 75). The fights of this Frankie Murray must be separated from those of another Frankie Murray, billed as being from Toronto, Canada.