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Battling Sailor Frank Kirk vs Benny Leonard — record, stats and common opponents compared

Battling Sailor Frank Kirk

🇺🇸UNITED STATES

Benny Leonard

Battling Sailor Frank Kirk (0-1 across 1 tracked bout) and Benny Leonard (185-22-9) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share no common opponents in Kill The Body's bout data.

Kirk

Tracked record

0–1

counted from 1 bout Kill The Body has ingested

Leonard

185

Wins70 KO · 38%

22

Losses

9

Draws216 tracked bouts

Heads up: at least one of these records is a tracked record — the wins and losses Kill The Body has ingested so far, not an independently verified career total. Treat the comparison as a read on the bouts we hold, not a settled ledger.

Head to Head

Leonard leads 1–0

Battling Sailor Frank Kirk and Benny Leonard have met 1 time; Leonard leads 1–0.

Battling Sailor Frank Kirk and Benny Leonard have met 1 time; Leonard leads 1–0.
Met1917Nov 28Series
Battling Sailor Frank KirkFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Benny LeonardFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultKOR11Meeting

The Numbers

Kirk 1 · Leonard 4 of 5 measurable rows
KirkLeonard
Record†
0-1185-22-9 (edge)
Win %0–100%
0%
87.7% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 70
0
70 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—37.84%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡not comparable
—38%
Times stopped‡max 5
1 (edge)
5
Title reignsmax 2
0
2 (edge)
Bouts per year§not comparable
—10.3
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 216
1
216

† One or both records are tracked, not career-verified. · ‡ Counted from bouts Kill The Body has ingested, not a career total. · § Across each fighter's tracked career span. · Bars are scaled per row — percentages on 0–100, counts against the larger of the two. Every figure is also printed as text.

Tale of the Tape

Heightnot held
Battling Sailor Frank Kirk: No height on file
Benny Leonard: 5′5″
Reachnot held
Battling Sailor Frank Kirk: No reach on file
Benny Leonard: 69″
Agenot held
Battling Sailor Frank Kirk: No date of birth
Benny Leonard: Died aged 51
Stance
Battling Sailor Frank Kirk: Not recorded
Benny Leonard: Orthodox

Battling Sailor Frank Kirk left, Benny Leonard right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Battling Sailor Frank Kirk0 wins · from 1 tracked bout

Battling Sailor Frank Kirk: no tracked wins in the 1 bout Kill The Body has ingested.

No tracked wins for Kirk yet.

Benny Leonard185 wins · from 216 tracked bouts

Benny Leonard: 185 tracked wins — 70 by KO/TKO (38%), 17 on the cards (9%) and 98 by another method or unrecorded (53%). Counted from 216 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

70 by KO/TKO 38%17 on the cards 9%98 by another method or unrecorded 53%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Battling Sailor Frank Kirk 1, Benny Leonard 216 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

No opponents in common across the bouts Kill The Body has tracked for these two.

Current Form

Oldest left · newest right

Battling Sailor Frank Kirk last boxed on Nov 28, 1917 — 39,789 days ago. Kirk had lost the most recent, to Benny Leonard.L

Leonard Nov 1917

Benny Leonard had won four in a row before losing by stoppage to Jimmy McLarnin. Leonard last boxed on Oct 7, 1932.WWWWL

Sarko Aug 1932Rafferty Sep 1932Abbott Sep 1932Sarko Sep 1932McLarnin Oct 193210.3 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Battling Sailor Frank Kirk and Benny Leonard ever fought each other?
Yes. Battling Sailor Frank Kirk and Benny Leonard met once on November 28, 1917, and Benny Leonard won by KO in round 1.
The meeting

LNov 28, 1917 · Leonard · KO R1

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Kirk or Leonard?
Battling Sailor Frank Kirk is 0-1 across the 1 bout Kill The Body has tracked and Benny Leonard is 185-22-9. Benny Leonard has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Kirk0–10%

Leonard185–22–987.7%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Kirk or Leonard?
Battling Sailor Frank Kirk has 0 knockout wins and Benny Leonard has 70. Benny Leonard has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Kirk0

Leonard7037.8%

The Numbers ↓
Do Kirk and Leonard have any common opponents?
Kill The Body's bout data shows no opponents that both Battling Sailor Frank Kirk and Benny Leonard have faced.
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Kirk and Leonard?
This comparison is drawn from 1 bout tracked for Battling Sailor Frank Kirk and 216 bouts tracked for Benny Leonard. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Kirk1bout

Leonard216bouts

How They Win ↓

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