champion middleweight boxer Benny Leonard (Benjamin Leiner; "The Ghetto Wizard")  who often fought and trained in Newark,  Abe Attell ("The Little Hebrew"), U.S. world champion featherweight boxer, Monte Attell , U.S. world champion bantamweight boxer, Louis Kaplan ("Kid Kaplan"), [ world champion featherweight boxer, Jaime Averboch , Argentine world champion welterweight