Eddie Connolly (November 18, 1876 – January 1, 1936) was a Canadian-born boxer who took the World Welterweight Championship in a twenty-five round points decision on June 5, 1900, against reigning champion Matty Matthews at the Seaside Athletic Club in Brooklyn, New York.

He began boxing professionally around 1894, taking the Canadian Featherweight Title at only eighteen on April 3, 1894, in five rounds in his hometown of Saint John, New Brunswick.

[2] On August 13, 1896, fighting on his home turf of Saint John, New Brunswick, Connolly drew in six rounds with Stanton Abbott at the Mechanics Institute.

[3] On November 24, 1896, Connolly took the British Empire World Lightweight Championship in Birminghamp, U.K. against English champion Tom Causer in a fifth-round knockout.

[6] On January 28, 1897, Connolly fought the great British boxer Dick Burge to a ten-round draw at the Olympic Club in Birmingham, England.

[9][10] On March 28, 1897, Connolly met fringe world welterweight contender Paddy Fenton at the Suffolk Athletic Club in Boston, Massachusetts, losing in a fifteenth round disqualification.

Around September 1911, around the age of thirty-eight, Fenton would perform an exhibition bout with the young welterweight Abe "The Newsboy" Hollandersky, a future Panamanian Heavyweight Champion, at the New London County Fair.

[12] According to Cyber Boxing Zone, Connolly competed unsuccessfully for the World Lightweight Championship on April 28, 1897, against reigning champion George "Kid" Lavigne in Brooklyn, New York, losing in an eleventh-round technical knockout.

[2][13] On October 27, 1898, Connolly won a bout against Tom Broderick in a tenth-round technical knockout at the Waverly Athletic Club in Yonkers, New York.

On November 26, 1898, Connolly met George Kerwin, a noted lightweight, at the Commercial Athletic Club in St. Louis, Missouri, for a twenty-round draw.

[18] In an important win on December 15, 1899, Connolly defeated William "Kid" McPartland in a twenty-five round points decision, again at the Broadway Athletic Club in Brooklyn.

[22] Connolly took the World Welterweight Championship in a 25-round points decision on June 5, 1900, against reigning champion Matty Matthews at the Seaside Athletic Club in Brooklyn, New York.

[23] On August 13, 1900, he lost the World Welterweight Championship to Rube Ferns, before a crowd of 1800 at the Olympic Club in Buffalo in a fifteenth-round technical knockout of a planned twenty-five.

[26] On June 21, 1902, he won an important bout against Pat Daly in a fifteen-round points decision at the National Sporting Club in London.

On July 19, and August 23, 1902, Connolly faced boxer Jack Palmer twice at the Ginetts Circus in New Castle, England, losing the first bout in a twenty-round decision, and the second in a sixth-round technical knockout.

[1] In their third and final meeting, on November 24, 1902, Connolly lost to Palmer in London at the National Sporting Club in a fifteen rounds points decision.

At least three sources considered the bout for the Middleweight Championship of England at 158 pounds, though Connolly, perhaps because of his weight or his status as a resident of America was not eligible to box for the British title.

[27][28][29][2][30] On September 15, 1902, Connolly was defeated by English boxer Tom Woodley in an eleventh round points decision at the Wonderland Club in London.

[32] On July 22, and August 10, 1903, he fought two ten-round draws against Jack "Twin" Sullivan in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in his original hometown of Saint John, New Brunswick, in Canada.

On January 15, 1904, Connolly ended his career, according to most sources, losing in a first-round technical knockout against Honey Mellody at the Lennox Athletic Club in Boston, Massachusetts.