Have Barry Funches and Lou Esa ever fought each other?

Yes. Barry Funches and Lou Esa met once on April 18, 1980, and Barry Funches won by KO.

Who has the better record, Funches or Esa?

Barry Funches is 1-4 across the 5 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Lou Esa is 19-6-1. Lou Esa has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.

Who has more knockouts, Funches or Esa?

Barry Funches has 1 knockout win and Lou Esa has 16. Lou Esa has more.

Do Funches and Esa have any common opponents?

Barry Funches and Lou Esa share 1 common opponent: John Tate. Neither fighter fared better across the shared opponents overall.

How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Funches and Esa?

This comparison is drawn from 5 bouts tracked for Barry Funches and 26 bouts tracked for Lou Esa. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.

Barry Funches vs Lou Esa — Records, Stats & Common Opponents

Barry Funches

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Lou Esa

Barry Funches (1-4 across 5 tracked bouts) and Lou Esa (19-6-1) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 1 common opponent.

Funches

Tracked record

1–4

counted from 5 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Esa

Wins16 KO · 84%

Losses

Draw26 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

Funches leads 1–0

Barry Funches and Lou Esa have met 1 time; Funches leads 1–0.
Met	1980Apr 18	Series
Barry FunchesFighter A	WWon	1–0W–L
Lou EsaFighter B	LLost	0–1W–L
Result	KOEsa vs Funches	1Meeting

Esa vs Funches · Apr 18, 1980

The Numbers

Funches 2 · Esa 4 of 6 measurable rows

FunchesEdge = longer wingEsa

Record^†: 1-419-6-1 (edge)
Win %0–100%: 20%
75% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 16: 1
16 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable: —84.21%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)^‡0–100%: 100% (edge)
84%
Times stopped^‡max 4: 3 (edge)
4
Title reignslevelmax 0: 0
0
Bouts per year^§max 4.3: 1.6
4.3 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 26: 5
26

† 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: Barry Funches: No height on file; Lou Esa: 6′6″
Agenot held: Barry Funches: No date of birth; Lou Esa: 74
Stance: Barry Funches: Not recorded; Lou Esa: Orthodox

Barry Funches left, Lou Esa right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only

Barry Funches1 win · from 5 tracked bouts

1 by KO/TKO 100%

Lou Esa19 wins · from 26 tracked bouts

16 by KO/TKO 84%3 on the cards 16%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Barry Funches 5, Lou Esa 26 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

1 shared

1 shared · even on 11 shared · even on 1

FunchesBarry Funches

Opponent

EsaLou Esa

Barry Funches
Loss, TKO 7
1981Oct 1981
TateJohn TateUnited States 34–3 · HeavyweightEvenEven — 0–1 both
Lou Esa
Loss, KO 3
1977Oct 1977

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

Barry Funches last boxed on May 31, 1983 — 15,850 days ago. Funches had lost four straight, after one straight win.WLLLL

Esa Apr 1980Ocasio Oct 1980Tate Oct 1981Williams Jun 1982Bruno May 19831.6 tracked bouts per year

Lou Esa last boxed on Aug 18, 1981 — 16,501 days ago. Esa had lost two straight, after one straight win.LLWLL

Tate Oct 1977Connell Jul 1979Starkey Mar 1980Funches Apr 1980Schmidt Aug 19814.3 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them

Have Barry Funches and Lou Esa ever fought each other?: Yes. Barry Funches and Lou Esa met once on April 18, 1980, and Barry Funches won by KO.
Who has the better record, Funches or Esa?: Barry Funches is 1-4 across the 5 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Lou Esa is 19-6-1. Lou Esa has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Who has more knockouts, Funches or Esa?: Barry Funches has 1 knockout win and Lou Esa has 16. Lou Esa has more.
Do Funches and Esa have any common opponents?: Barry Funches and Lou Esa share 1 common opponent: John Tate. Neither fighter fared better across the shared opponents overall.
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Funches and Esa?: This comparison is drawn from 5 bouts tracked for Barry Funches and 26 bouts tracked for Lou Esa. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.

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