What is Benny Leonard's record?

185–22–9 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 196 bouts individually.

Does a no contest change a record here?

No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.

What happens when sources disagree about a fight?

This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.

Benny Leonard — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

185–22–9

Benny Leonard has a reach of 69″ against a height of 65″ — a reach advantage of +6.18%, exceptional for welterweight boxing and the 93rd percentile of the 130 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1916–1932 · EARLIEST 76 NOT SHOWN

SOURCE·Benny Leonard — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-26

How this record is compiled

Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-07-26. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the MMA record template — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one.
A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
Percentiles rank this fighter among the 130 welterweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

Bout record

Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
1932	L	Jimmy McLarnin	KO/TKO	6
1932	W	Mike Sarko	Decision	6
1932	W	Jimmy Abbott	KO/TKO	3
1932	W	Phil Rafferty	Decision	6
1932	W	Paulie Walker	Decision	10
1932	W	Billy Townsend	Decision	10
1932	W	Eddie Shapiro	Decision	8
1932	W	Joe Trippe	KO/TKO	2
1932	W	Billy Angelo	Decision	10
1932	W	Andy Saviola	Decision	10
1932	W	Marty Goldman	KO/TKO	2
1932	W	Willie Garafola	KO/TKO	4
1932	W	Buster Brown	Decision	10
1932	W	Billy McMahon	Decision	10
1931	W	Buster Brown	Decision	10
1931	D	Johnny Kasper	Decision	10
1931	W	Vittorio Livan	KO/TKO	3
1931	W	Pal Silvers	KO/TKO	2
1924	W	Pal Moran	—	10
1923	W	Johnny Mendelsohn	—	8
1923	W	Lew Tendler	Decision	15
1923	W	Alex Hart	—	8
1923	W	Pinky Mitchell	KO/TKO	10
1922	W	Ever Hammer	—	10
1922	W	Lew Tendler	—	12
1922	W	Rocky Kansas	KO/TKO	8
1922	L	Jack Britton	DQ	13
1922	W	Jakob "Soldier" Bartfield	Decision	4
1922	W	Johnny Clinton	—	10
1922	W	Pal Moran	—	10
1921	W	Tim Droney	—	8
1921	W	Sailor Friedman	—	8
1921	W	Rocky Kansas	—	12
1921	W	Joe Welling	—	8
1921	W	Eddie Moy	KO/TKO	3
1921	W	Richie Mitchell	KO/TKO	6
1920	W	Joe Welling	KO/TKO	14
1920	W	Harlem Eddie Kelly	DQ	5
1920	W	K.O. Willie Loughlin	—	10
1920	W	Johnny Tillman	Decision	10
1920	W	Johnny Sheppard	KO/TKO	3
1920	W	Frankie Britt	KO/TKO	5
1920	W	Pal Moran	—	10
1920	W	Charley White	KO/TKO	9
1920	W	Johnny Dundee	—	8
1919	W	Jake Abel	—	10
1919	W	James Red Herring	KO/TKO	6
1919	W	Mel Coogan	KO/TKO	2
1919	W	Jakob "Soldier" Bartfield	—	6
1919	W	Lockport Jimmy Duffy	KO/TKO	2
1919	W	Phil Bloom	—	10
1919	W	Charley Metrie	KO/TKO	7
1919	W	Johnny Dundee	—	8
1919	W	Johnny Clinton	—	10
1919	W	Patsy Cline	—	6
1919	W	Joe Malone	KO/TKO	3
1919	W	Charley Pitts	—	10
1919	W	Young George Erne	KO/TKO	6
1919	W	Willie Ritchie	KO/TKO	8
1919	W	Harvey Thorpe	—	10

Showing 60 of 196 recorded bouts, most recent first.

27 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Benny Leonard — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-26

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+6.18%

69″ reach on a 65″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 130 welterweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.

-2.9%welterweight boxing reach advantage9.4%

Measurements
Reach	69″ (175.3 cm)	34th pct
Height	65″ (165.1 cm)	4th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Welterweight Boxing competed at 2: lightweight, welterweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	1910s — 151 of 196 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

185–22

219 bouts on record

Finish rate

38%

of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight boxing median 54%, 26th percentile

By knockout 38%
By decision 62%

The career, bout by bout

196 recorded bouts from 1911 to 1932. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1911–1932

Career span

22y

1911–1932

Longest unbeaten run

83

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1917

27 bouts

Recorded bouts

196

196 with a date

Closest in build

welterweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Benny Leonard's record?: 185–22–9 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 196 bouts individually.
Does a no contest change a record here?: No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
What happens when sources disagree about a fight?: This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.

Cross-references

Welterweight boxing

The 304 welterweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Leonard sits inside.

304 FIGHTERS 1910s boxing

151 of these bouts fall in the 1910s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

48 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Benny Leonard went 83 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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