Lew Tendler

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Lew Tendler is one of the VERY greatest fighters to never win a title. Narrow the playing field to southpaws that never won a title, and it's hard to name a single fighter better than Lew. Narrow the playing field again to Jewish southpaws to never win a title...and Lew is unquestionably the greatest of all time. Lew fought from the end of 1913 to the middle of 1928, aging from 15 to 29. Going by the record books, he initially had 95 no decisions. But today, websites like boxrec have recorded the verdicts of a majority of these bouts in terms of what newspapers had to say about them. Going by the newspaper decisions, Lew finished his career with 134 wins, 16 losses, 8 draws, 12 no decisions, and 1 no contest.


Despite never winning a title, Lew found meaningful success from Bantamweight to Welterweight, and even dipped himself into the Middleweight division before all was said and done. He beat future World Bantamweight Champion Pete Herman. He beat future World Featherweight Champion and hall of famer Johnny Dundee. He beat future Lightweight World Champion Rocky Kansas. He even beat top 3 Welterweight contender Jack Zivic. Not a bad career for a man that never won a World title...


Some articles Written on Tendler:

http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/LewTendler.htm
http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/ind...r/tendler.html

Cyber Boxing Zone had the following to say about Tendler:

He defeated such men as Hilario Martinez, Vincent Forgione, "Farmer" Joe Cooper, Basil Galiano, Nate Goldman, Joe Tiplitz, Sailor Friedman, Pal Moran, "Oakland" Jimmy Duffy, Frankie Callahan, Willie Jackson, Stanley Yoakum, George "K.O." Chaney, Frankie Britt, Fred "Young" Diggins; He also bested a number of highly ranked men in "No Decision" contests

Nat Fleischer ranked Tendler as the #9 All-Time Lightweight; Herb Goldman ranked him as the #16 All-Time Lightweight; Lew was inducted into the Ring Boxing Hall of Fame in 1961, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1992, the Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997 and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1999

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This is his first bout with arguably the greatest Lightweight ever, Benny Leonard.

From boxrec:

• Weights: Leonard 140, Tendler 135
• "Benny Leonard won by a shade" The Ring Magazine. The New York Times also said that Leonard was the winner.
• YouTube film
• Tendler worked Leonard over in round eight, but could not put him down. Only a KO would have taken the title from Leonard

New York Times called Leonard the winner.
Nevada State Journal (AP wire) said "a majority [of reporters] seemed to favor Leonard . . .although some declared for a draw."