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Babe Vance vs Curtis Cokes — record, stats and common opponents compared

Babe Vance

🇺🇸WELTERWEIGHT

Curtis Cokes

Babe Vance (0-2 across 2 tracked bouts) and Curtis Cokes (62-14-4) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share no common opponents in Kill The Body's bout data.

Vance

Tracked record

0–2

counted from 2 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Cokes

62

Wins30 KO · 48%

14

Losses

4

Draws80 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

Cokes leads 1–0

Babe Vance and Curtis Cokes have met 1 time; Cokes leads 1–0.

Babe Vance and Curtis Cokes have met 1 time; Cokes leads 1–0.
Met1958May 12Series
Babe VanceFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Curtis CokesFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultUD1Meeting

The Numbers

Vance 1 · Cokes 5 of 6 measurable rows
VanceCokes
Record†
0-262-14-4 (edge)
Win %0–100%
0%
80% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 30
0
30 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—48.39%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡not comparable
—48%
Times stopped‡max 3
0 (edge)
3
Title reignsmax 3
0
3 (edge)
Bouts per year§max 5.5
1.2
5.5 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 80
2
80

† 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

Agenot held
Babe Vance: No date of birth
Curtis Cokes: Died aged 82
Stance
Babe Vance: Not recorded
Curtis Cokes: Orthodox

Babe Vance left, Curtis Cokes right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Babe Vance0 wins · from 2 tracked bouts

Babe Vance: no tracked wins in the 2 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

No tracked wins for Vance yet.

Curtis Cokes62 wins · from 80 tracked bouts

Curtis Cokes: 62 tracked wins — 30 by KO/TKO (48%) and 32 on the cards (52%). Counted from 80 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

30 by KO/TKO 48%32 on the cards 52%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Babe Vance 2, Curtis Cokes 80 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

No opponents in common across the bouts Kill The Body has tracked for these two.

Current Form

Oldest left · newest right

Babe Vance last boxed on Jan 19, 1960 — 24,379 days ago. Vance had lost two straight.LL

Cokes May 1958Archer Jan 19601.2 tracked bouts per year

Curtis Cokes has won two straight since three straight losses. Cokes last boxed on Oct 5, 1972.LLLWW

Salinas Dec 1971Gutierrez May 1972Makhatini Sep 1972Hali Sep 1972Mzinyane Oct 19725.5 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Babe Vance and Curtis Cokes ever fought each other?
Yes. Babe Vance and Curtis Cokes met once on May 12, 1958, and Curtis Cokes won by UD.
The meeting

LMay 12, 1958 · Cokes · UD

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Vance or Cokes?
Babe Vance is 0-2 across the 2 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Curtis Cokes is 62-14-4. Curtis Cokes has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Vance0–20%

Cokes62–14–480%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Vance or Cokes?
Babe Vance has 0 knockout wins and Curtis Cokes has 30. Curtis Cokes has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Vance0

Cokes3048.4%

The Numbers ↓
Do Vance and Cokes have any common opponents?
Kill The Body's bout data shows no opponents that both Babe Vance and Curtis Cokes have faced.
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Vance and Cokes?
This comparison is drawn from 2 bouts tracked for Babe Vance and 80 bouts tracked for Curtis Cokes. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Vance2bouts

Cokes80bouts

How They Win ↓

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