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Albert Westphal vs Willi Besmanoff — record, stats and common opponents compared

🇩🇪GERMANY

Albert Westphal

🇩🇪GERMANY

Willi Besmanoff

Albert Westphal (1-3-1 across 5 tracked bouts) and Willi Besmanoff (51-34-8) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 1 common opponent.

Westphal

Tracked record

1–3–1

counted from 5 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Besmanoff

51

Wins19 KO · 37%

34

Losses

8

Draws93 tracked bouts

Heads up: at least one of these records is a tracked record — the wins and losses Kill The Body has ingested so far, not an independently verified career total. Treat the comparison as a read on the bouts we hold, not a settled ledger.

Head to Head

Besmanoff leads 1–0

Albert Westphal and Willi Besmanoff have met 1 time; Besmanoff leads 1–0.

Albert Westphal and Willi Besmanoff have met 1 time; Besmanoff leads 1–0.
Met1956Sep 21Series
Albert WestphalFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Willi BesmanoffFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultTKO1Meeting

The Numbers

Westphal 2 · Besmanoff 4 of 6 measurable rows
WestphalBesmanoff
Record†
1-3-151-34-8 (edge)
Win %0–100%
30%
59.1% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 19
1
19 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—37.25%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
100% (edge)
38%
Times stopped‡max 10
3 (edge)
10
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 6.2
0.6
6.2 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 93
5
93

† One or both records are tracked, not career-verified. · ‡ Counted from bouts Kill The Body has ingested, not a career total. · § Across each fighter's tracked career span. · Bars are scaled per row — percentages on 0–100, counts against the larger of the two. Every figure is also printed as text.

Tale of the Tape

Heightnot held
Albert Westphal: No height on file
Willi Besmanoff: 5′11″
Agenot comparable
Albert Westphal: 95
Willi Besmanoff: Died aged 78
Stance
Albert Westphal: Not recorded
Willi Besmanoff: Orthodox

Albert Westphal left, Willi Besmanoff right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Albert Westphal1 win · from 5 tracked bouts

Albert Westphal: 1 tracked win — 1 by KO/TKO (100%). Counted from 5 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

1 by KO/TKO 100%

Willi Besmanoff53 wins · from 93 tracked bouts

Willi Besmanoff: 53 tracked wins — 20 by KO/TKO (38%), 32 on the cards (60%) and 1 by another method or unrecorded (2%). Counted from 93 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

20 by KO/TKO 38%32 on the cards 60%1 by another method or unrecorded 2%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Albert Westphal 5, Willi Besmanoff 93 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

1 shared

1 shared · even on 1

Westphal

Opponent

Besmanoff

  • Albert Westphal

    Loss, KO 1

    1961

    ListonEven

    Willi Besmanoff

    Loss, RTD 6

    1959

Both sides are set at the same size on purpose. Kill The Body does not score a second-round knockout above a split decision — the edge counts losses first and wins as the tiebreak, and the rest is yours to argue. Shared opponents are matched on fighter identity, not on name, so two different fighters with the same name never merge into one row.

Current Form

Oldest left · newest right

Albert Westphal last boxed on Mar 27, 1965 — 22,490 days ago. Westphal had drawn the most recent tracked bout with Eduardo Corletti.LWLLD

Besmanoff Sep 1956Hecht Nov 1958Liston Dec 1961Bygraves Feb 1965Corletti Mar 19650.6 tracked bouts per year

Willi Besmanoff has lost three straight, after one straight win. Besmanoff last boxed on Aug 1, 1967.LWLLL

Lanum Nov 1966Lanum Dec 1966Chuvalo Apr 1967Chuvalo May 1967Zyglewicz Aug 19676.2 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Albert Westphal and Willi Besmanoff ever fought each other?
Yes. Albert Westphal and Willi Besmanoff met once on September 21, 1956, and Willi Besmanoff won by TKO.
The meeting

LSep 21, 1956 · Besmanoff · TKO

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Westphal or Besmanoff?
Albert Westphal is 1-3-1 across the 5 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Willi Besmanoff is 51-34-8. Willi Besmanoff has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Westphal1–3–130%

Besmanoff51–34–859.1%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Westphal or Besmanoff?
Albert Westphal has 1 knockout win and Willi Besmanoff has 19. Willi Besmanoff has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Westphal1

Besmanoff1937.3%

The Numbers ↓
Do Westphal and Besmanoff have any common opponents?
Albert Westphal and Willi Besmanoff share 1 common opponent: Sonny Liston. Neither fighter fared better across the shared opponents overall.
Shared opponent

Sonny ListonLL

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Westphal and Besmanoff?
This comparison is drawn from 5 bouts tracked for Albert Westphal and 93 bouts tracked for Willi Besmanoff. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Westphal5bouts

Besmanoff93bouts

How They Win ↓

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