• Benny Leonard (born Benjamin Leiner; April 7, 1896 – April 18, 1947) was an American professional boxer who held the world lightweight championship for...
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  • Davis, Oscar De La Hoya, Roberto Durán, Joe Gans, Artur Grigorian, Benny Leonard, Ray Mancini, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Juan Manuel Márquez, Sugar Shane...
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  • clarinetist and bandleader Benny Leonard (1896–1947), American world champion Hall-of-Fame lightweight boxer born Benjamin Leiner Benny Parsons (1941–2007),...
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  • Mechelen-Brussels Andrew Leonard, American technology journalist Andy Leonard, baseball Benny Leonard (born Benjamin Leiner; "The Ghetto Wizard", 1896–1947), American...
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    Britton/Benny Leonard fight the previous June in the Bronx Hippodrome where Leonard lost in what appeared to be an intentional foul. Leonard was specifically...
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  • championship. January 14 – Benny Leonard retains the world Lightweight title with a sixth-round knockout of Richie Mitchell, at New York. Leonard suffered a first...
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  • boxing, the term was historically associated with fighters such as Benny Leonard and Sugar Ray Robinson who were widely considered to be the most skilled...
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  • Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard on December 19, 1919, in Memphis, Tennessee, losing in an early sixth-round technical knockout. Leonard outmaneuvered Herring...
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    At lighter weights, ten round fights were common, and lightweight Benny Leonard dominated his division from the late teens into the early twenties....
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    Oakland Jimmy Duffy, and champions Rocky Kansas, James Red Herring, Benny Leonard, Lew Tendler, Jack Britton, Mushy Callahan and Joe Dundee. Born Myron...
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