For more than seven years, Benny Leonard held a monopoly—a legal monopoly that no court could dissolve - the world lightweight championship. Leonard monopolized the crown simply by being so good that he was unbeatable. But then, in the summer of 1924, seemingly with no more worlds to conquer, Leonard announced his retirement as undefeated titleholder. This set off a scramble among the best 135-pounders in the world for the vacant crown, and a young fighter of Irish-German ancestry, toughened in the steel mills, emerged on top as the successor to Benny Leonard. His name was James Edward Moran, but in the ring he was called Jimmy Goodrich.
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