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Battling Joe McCluskey vs Rinty Monaghan — record, stats and common opponents compared

Battling Joe McCluskey

🇮🇪IRELAND

Rinty Monaghan

Battling Joe McCluskey (0-1 across 1 tracked bout) and Rinty Monaghan (52-9-8) 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.

McCluskey

Tracked record

0–1

counted from 1 bout Kill The Body has ingested

Monaghan

52

Wins19 KO · 37%

9

Losses

8

Draws67 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

Monaghan leads 1–0

Battling Joe McCluskey and Rinty Monaghan have met 1 time; Monaghan leads 1–0.

Battling Joe McCluskey and Rinty Monaghan have met 1 time; Monaghan leads 1–0.
Met1938May 6Series
Battling Joe McCluskeyFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Rinty MonaghanFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultPTS1Meeting

The Numbers

McCluskey 1 · Monaghan 4 of 5 measurable rows
McCluskeyMonaghan
Record†
0-152-9-8 (edge)
Win %0–100%
0%
81.2% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 19
0
19 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—36.54%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡not comparable
—39%
Times stopped‡max 1
0 (edge)
1
Title reignsmax 4
0
4 (edge)
Bouts per year§not comparable
—4.5
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 67
1
67

† 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
Battling Joe McCluskey: No height on file
Rinty Monaghan: 5′3″
Reachnot held
Battling Joe McCluskey: No reach on file
Rinty Monaghan: 64″
Agenot held
Battling Joe McCluskey: No date of birth
Rinty Monaghan: Died aged 63
Stance
Battling Joe McCluskey: Not recorded
Rinty Monaghan: Orthodox

Battling Joe McCluskey left, Rinty Monaghan right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Battling Joe McCluskey0 wins · from 1 tracked bout

Battling Joe McCluskey: no tracked wins in the 1 bout Kill The Body has ingested.

No tracked wins for McCluskey yet.

Rinty Monaghan51 wins · from 67 tracked bouts

Rinty Monaghan: 51 tracked wins — 20 by KO/TKO (39%), 30 on the cards (59%) and 1 by another method or unrecorded (2%). Counted from 67 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

20 by KO/TKO 39%30 on the cards 59%1 by another method or unrecorded 2%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Battling Joe McCluskey 1, Rinty Monaghan 67 — 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

Battling Joe McCluskey last boxed on May 6, 1938 — 32,311 days ago. McCluskey had lost the most recent, to Rinty Monaghan.L

Monaghan May 1938

Rinty Monaghan drew the most recent tracked bout with Terry Allen. Monaghan last boxed on Sep 30, 1949.WLWWD

Squire Jun 1948Allen Feb 1949Sandeyron Apr 1949Belardinelli Aug 1949Allen Sep 19494.5 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Battling Joe McCluskey and Rinty Monaghan ever fought each other?
Yes. Battling Joe McCluskey and Rinty Monaghan met once on May 6, 1938, and Rinty Monaghan won by PTS.
The meeting

LMay 6, 1938 · Monaghan · PTS

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, McCluskey or Monaghan?
Battling Joe McCluskey is 0-1 across the 1 bout Kill The Body has tracked and Rinty Monaghan is 52-9-8. Rinty Monaghan has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

McCluskey0–10%

Monaghan52–9–881.2%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, McCluskey or Monaghan?
Battling Joe McCluskey has 0 knockout wins and Rinty Monaghan has 19. Rinty Monaghan has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

McCluskey0

Monaghan1936.5%

The Numbers ↓
Do McCluskey and Monaghan have any common opponents?
Kill The Body's bout data shows no opponents that both Battling Joe McCluskey and Rinty Monaghan have faced.
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on McCluskey and Monaghan?
This comparison is drawn from 1 bout tracked for Battling Joe McCluskey and 67 bouts tracked for Rinty Monaghan. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

McCluskey1bout

Monaghan67bouts

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