H&G All-Time Index public fighter card
Benny Leonard
Lightweight · United States
Benny Leonard ranks #21 in the H&G All-Time Index at Lightweight, with a 92.36 All-Time Index score and a 90-6-1 professional record. His best wins on record include Lew Tendler, Jack Britton and Lockport Jimmy Duffy. His career span on this page is 1912-1932.
- All-time rank
- #21All-Time Elite
- H&G All-Time Index
- 92.360-100 ranking index. This is the number that orders the list.
- Career record
- 90-6-1Professional wins, losses and draws.
- Active years
- 1912-1932
- Data Confidence
- HighDeep career evidence and a tighter peak-rating band in this release. Close ranks still need boxing judgement.
Career story
How Benny Leonard's rating rose and fell year by year, with his peak marked.
Yearly peak-form Elo rating points. This curve is separate from the 0-100 ranking index.
Signature wins
- Lew Tendler - 1923 - signature win
- Jack Britton - 1918 - signature win
- Lockport Jimmy Duffy - 1919 - signature win
- Rocky Kansas - 1922 - signature win
- Johnny Dundee - 1920 - signature win
Show the year-by-year numbers
| Year | Peak-form Elo rating |
|---|---|
| 1912 | 1,522 |
| 1913 | 1,592 |
| 1914 | 1,711 |
| 1915 | 1,803 |
| 1916 | 1,873 |
| 1917 | 1,941 |
| 1918 | 1,962 |
| 1919 | 1,995 |
| 1920 | 1,998 |
| 1921 | 1,998 |
| 1922 | 1,990 |
| 1923 | 1,981 |
| 1924 | 1,967 |
| 1931 | 1,902 |
| 1932 | 1,901 |
Why this ranking
Benny Leonard ranks #21 with a 92.36 score on the 60-100 H&G All-Time Index. His standout win in our data is over Lew Tendler in 1923, who reached a 1,864 Peak-form Elo, one of the stronger opponents on his record. In one case a result was later reversed: he beat Jack Britton once, then lost to him in a later fight. The strongest model lifts are sustained top-level career signal (well above the typical top-1000 fighter) and quality of opponents beaten (above the typical top-1000 fighter). Peak-form Elo is 1,998 (±180), separate from the 60-100 career Index.
What lifts or lowers this ranking
Bars show each weighted signal's relative size. Gold lifts the placement; grey holds it back.
How much repeat elite-year presence supports the all-time case.
How much the record is helped by wins over contemporaneous title-level opponents.
Collapsed signal from peak rating, sustained rating and same-era separation.
A narrow signal for lineal, explicit undisputed or major multi-belt class control in this release data; it is not a full title history.
How much major title evidence supports the rating.
Same-era separation left after the shared peak and sustained rating signal is removed.
Compare and explore
Put Benny Leonard next to any other ranked fighter, or open the tools built on the same rating data.
Top fights
The highest-ranked fighters Benny Leonard actually faced, biggest names first. Each one opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Jimmy McLarnin#45 · Index 89 · 1932
- Jack Britton#67 · Index 86 · 1917, 1918, 1922
- Ted Kid Lewis#91 · Index 84 · 1918
- Johnny Dundee#102 · Index 84 · 1919, 1920
- Freddie Welsh#174 · Index 81 · 1916, 1917
- Johnny Kilbane#199 · Index 80 · 1915, 1917
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- Lew Tendler#230 · Index 79 · 1922, 1923
- Rocky Kansas#361 · Index 77 · 1921, 1922
- Lockport Jimmy Duffy#370 · Index 77 · 1919
- Willie Ritchie#839 · Index 72 · 1919
Ranked-vs-ranked bouts from the pinned fight archive, ordered by opponent ranking. An objective record of who they shared a ring with.
Great rivals he never fought
Ranked fighters who shared a recognised division and whose competitive careers overlapped, with no bout between them on record. Each name opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Mickey Walker#20 · Welterweight · 10 overlapping years (1923-1932)
- Marcel Thil#43 · Welterweight · 7 overlapping years (1926-1932)
- Young Corbett III#66 · Welterweight · 8 overlapping years (1925-1932)
- Mike Gibbons#95 · Welterweight · 6 overlapping years (1917-1922)
- Jackie Fields#119 · Lightweight / Welterweight · 8 overlapping years (1925-1932)
- Louis 'Kid' Kaplan#210 · Lightweight · 10 overlapping years (1923-1932)
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- Johnny Indrisano#220 · Welterweight · 10 overlapping years (1923-1932)
- Sammy Mandell#225 · Lightweight · 8 overlapping years (1925-1932)
- Dave Shade#335 · Welterweight · 9 overlapping years (1924-1932)
- Jack Carroll#386 · Welterweight · 10 overlapping years (1923-1932)
- Georges Carpentier#507 · Welterweight · 10 overlapping years (1917-1926)
- Sid Terris#552 · Lightweight · 10 overlapping years (1922-1931)
Shared recognised division, overlapping competitive years, no recorded bout between them. A measured pattern only.
Linked style profile
8-axis style breakdown
Benny Leonard also has a reviewed style profile with radar scores, study notes and diagnostic comparisons.
About this rating
Rankings: H&G All-Time Index v2.0.0. Reflects fights up to , the most recent on record. The ratings are fixed to that point, so fights after it are not yet included.
The rating itself is built from the 141 bouts we hold full data for from 1917 to 1932, which is why this count differs from the professional record above.
For the data-minded
Peak-form Elo rating: 1,998 (peak dated 1920-11-01). This best-point rating sits on its own scale and is not directly comparable with the 0-100 index.
The peak estimate carries an uncertainty band of about ±180 Elo, so read close comparisons with care.