Eddie Lenny

Name: Eddie Lenny
Birth Name: Edward Setaro
Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1918-05-14 (Age:39)
Height: 164cm
Pro Boxer: Record

Eddie Lenny was a boxer of Italian extraction who fought as a featherweight and lightweight from 1896 to 1907. He boxed George Dixon for the world featherweight title in New York, November 21, 1899, it has been said the decision was a close decision and that Lenny was Baron Dougherty's first fighter.

Lenny's record on BoxRec does not contain some claimed fights that have not been verified. In a record published in the Philadelphia Item, he (or his manager) claimed the following fights, all or some of which may have occurred in private, but not reported. Without verification from newspapers or other printed contemporary sources there is no way to know if the outcome was as claimed or to even to be sure that these fights actually occurred.

• Danny Dougherty, Draw 6
• Black Pearl (Jess Moulton), W Points 4
• Young Walcott, W Points 6
• Johnny Murphy, W ko 1
• Patsy Cohen, W Points 6
• Sammy Smith, W ko 1
• Steve Moore, W ko 3
• Harry Wigmore, W Points 4
• Young Walcott, W Points 6
• Billy Hill (Muldoon's Pickaninny), W Points 6
• Joe Elliott, W Points 6
• Jack Diamond, W Points 6
• Jack Rodgers, W tko 1
• Jack Dougherty, W Points 6
• Ike Edney, W tko 1
• Jack Krause, Draw 4
• Jack Krause, W Points 6
• George Haddon, No decision 6

These supposed fights would all have been in Philadelphia or Chester, Pennsylvania.

Lenny may also have fought Kid Beebe in New York on May 9, 1907, and Gus Gardner, date and location unknown.