Skip to main content
Kill The Body

and the head will die

Benny Leonard vs Joe Thomas — record, stats and common opponents compared

🇺🇸UNITED STATES

Benny Leonard

Joe Thomas

Benny Leonard (185-22-9) and Joe Thomas (4-13-1 across 18 tracked bouts) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 3 common opponents.

Leonard

185

Wins70 KO · 38%

22

Losses

9

Draws216 tracked bouts

Thomas

Tracked record

4–13–1

counted from 18 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

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

Benny Leonard and Joe Thomas have met 1 time; Leonard leads 1–0.

Benny Leonard and Joe Thomas have met 1 time; Leonard leads 1–0.
Met1914Sep 16Series
Benny LeonardFighter AWWon1–0W–L
Joe ThomasFighter BLLost0–1W–L
ResultNWS1Meeting

The Numbers

Leonard 6 · Thomas 0 of 6 measurable rows
LeonardThomas
Record†
185-22-9 (edge)4-13-1
Win %0–100%
87.7% (edge)
25%
Wins by knockoutmax 70
70 (edge)
1
KO ratenot comparable
37.84%—
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
38% (edge)
25%
Times stopped‡max 8
5 (edge)
8
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 10.3
10.3 (edge)
0.8
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 216
216
18

† 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
Benny Leonard: 5′5″
Joe Thomas: No height on file
Reachnot held
Benny Leonard: 69″
Joe Thomas: No reach on file
Agenot held
Benny Leonard: Died aged 51
Joe Thomas: No date of birth
Stance
Benny Leonard: Orthodox
Joe Thomas: Not recorded

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

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
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%

Joe Thomas4 wins · from 18 tracked bouts

Joe Thomas: 4 tracked wins — 1 by KO/TKO (25%) and 3 by another method or unrecorded (75%). Counted from 18 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

1 by KO/TKO 25%3 by another method or unrecorded 75%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Benny Leonard 216, Joe Thomas 18 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

3 shared

3 shared · Leonard better on 3

Leonard

Opponent

Thomas

  • Benny Leonard

    4–0 against

    Win, TKO 8

    1922

    Win, UD

    1922

    Win, NWS

    1921

    Win, NWS

    1916

    KansasLeonard better

    Joe Thomas

    Loss, NWS

    1918

  • Benny Leonard

    2–1 against

    Loss, DQ 13

    1922

    Win, NWS

    1918

    Win, NWS

    1917

    BrittonLeonard better

    Joe Thomas

    Loss, PTS

    1913

  • Benny Leonard

    Win, KO 9

    1920

    WhiteLeonard better

    Joe Thomas

    0–2 against

    Loss, TKO 2

    1913

    Loss, KO 8

    1913

Both sides are set at the same size on purpose. Kill The Body does not score a second-round knockout above a split decision — the edge counts losses first and wins as the tiebreak, and the rest is yours to argue. Shared opponents are matched on fighter identity, not on name, so two different fighters with the same name never merge into one row.

Current Form

Oldest left · newest right

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

Joe Thomas last boxed on Aug 25, 1929 — 35,483 days ago. Thomas had lost ten straight.LLLLL

White May 1913Leonard Sep 1914Kansas Aug 1918Carnera Sep 1928Carnera Aug 19290.8 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Benny Leonard and Joe Thomas ever fought each other?
Yes. Benny Leonard and Joe Thomas met once on September 16, 1914, and Benny Leonard won by NWS.
The meeting

WSep 16, 1914 · Leonard · NWS

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Leonard or Thomas?
Benny Leonard is 185-22-9 and Joe Thomas is 4-13-1 across the 18 bouts Kill The Body has tracked. Benny Leonard has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Leonard185–22–987.7%

Thomas4–13–125%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Leonard or Thomas?
Benny Leonard has 70 knockout wins and Joe Thomas has 1. Benny Leonard has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Leonard7037.8%

Thomas1

The Numbers ↓
Do Leonard and Thomas have any common opponents?
Benny Leonard and Joe Thomas share 3 common opponents: Rocky Kansas, Jack Britton and Charley White. Benny Leonard fared better against 3 of them.
3 shared opponents

Rocky KansasWL

Jack Britton2–1L

Charley WhiteWL

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Leonard and Thomas?
This comparison is drawn from 216 bouts tracked for Benny Leonard and 18 bouts tracked for Joe Thomas. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Leonard216bouts

Thomas18bouts

How They Win ↓

Compare someone else

6 suggested matchups

Compare Leonard with…

Compare Thomas with…

Someone else?

Release either fighter to put someone new in that slot — the other one stays put.