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Eddie Leonard (age 15) was a orthodox boxer with a record of 57 wins, 8 losses, 6 draws. Starting his career on December 1920 at age 15, Eddie Leonard fought 71 times over 7 years as a pro. Leonard's longest KO streak is 2 fights long out of his 71 career fights.
Leonard made an impressive debut on December 1920, showing his class and technical boxing skill Leonard went the full 6 rounds with Wigin and became the first person to do so. Following on from his debut, Leonard continued his mostly successful career by fighting in a further 36 fights. In this time he fought Pinky White, Tommy Milton and Pinky White to name just a few, fighting once in 1920, 8 times in 1921 and 27 times through 1922, 1923 and 1924 in this period.
Unfortunately, the first defeat of Leonard's career came against Marty Gold on January 4th, 1921 in Leonard's 2nd professional fight. Taking the first setback of his career, the January 4th, 1921 Gold defeat went the full distance and ended via PTS. Fights against boxers including Pinky White, Pinky White and Tommy Milton followed where he won 33 fights taking his winning streak to 29 wins.
Leonard went into his next fight against Young Marino on May 31st, 1924 with a career record of 29-5-2. Leonard was beaten by Young Marino in the 7th round. The win came via TKO in the 7th round. This was Leonard's first stoppage defeat. Fights against boxers including Johnny Fagan, Vince Carbone and Bobby Russell followed where he won 8 fights taking his winning streak to 35 wins.
On February 2nd, 1925, Leonard went into action again and beat Frankie Neal taking the winning record to 36 wins. Leonard's fight against Frankie Neal came in the 4th round of a 5 round fight via KO. Leonard became the first person to stop Neal. 7 wins followed where Leonard went on to be the 5th person to go the distance with Battling Frye, 3rd person to beat Willie Siple and 8th person to defeat Jack Cafoni.
Garner Johns was the next fight for Leonard on August 3rd, 1925 and also his next career win. Becoming the first person to stop Garner Johns, Leonard beat Johns via KO in the 1st round of a 0 round fight. Fights against boxers including Marty Gold, Marty Gold and Manny Wexler followed where he won 16 fights taking his winning streak to 56 wins.
Pushing his career further, Leonard fought Eddie Bowling on August 22nd, 1928 adding to his winning record. Leonard's PTS win against Eddie Bowling came via judges decision of a 10 round fight. Leonard became the 4th person to defeat Bowling and secured a great win.
Leonard's next defeat of his career came against Tony Ross on September 20th, 1928. It took 71 pro fights for Leonard to decide it was now too much to continue fighting. Leonard's 10 round defeat to Ross was Leonard's final fight as a pro.