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Battling Shaw vs Marcial Zavala — record, stats and common opponents compared

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Battling Shaw

Marcial Zavala

Battling Shaw (79-29-9) and Marcial Zavala (0-2 across 2 tracked bouts) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 1 common opponent.

Shaw

79

Wins32 KO · 41%

29

Losses

9

Draws119 tracked bouts

Zavala

Tracked record

0–2

counted from 2 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

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

Shaw leads 1–0

Battling Shaw and Marcial Zavala have met 1 time; Shaw leads 1–0.

Battling Shaw and Marcial Zavala have met 1 time; Shaw leads 1–0.
Met1931Sep 26Series
Battling ShawFighter AWWon1–0W–L
Marcial ZavalaFighter BLLost0–1W–L
ResultTKOR51Meeting

The Numbers

Shaw 3 · Zavala 1 of 4 measurable rows
ShawZavala
Record†
79-29-9 (edge)0-2
Win %0–100%
71.4% (edge)
0%
Wins by knockoutmax 32
32 (edge)
0
KO ratenot comparable
40.51%—
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡not comparable
41%—
Times stopped‡max 7
7
1 (edge)
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§not comparable
12.8—
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 119
119
2

† 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 Shaw: 5′7″
Marcial Zavala: No height on file
Agenot held
Battling Shaw: Died aged 83
Marcial Zavala: No date of birth
Stance
Battling Shaw: Orthodox
Marcial Zavala: Not recorded

Battling Shaw left, Marcial Zavala 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 Shaw79 wins · from 119 tracked bouts

Battling Shaw: 79 tracked wins — 32 by KO/TKO (41%), 35 on the cards (44%) and 12 by another method or unrecorded (15%). Counted from 119 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

32 by KO/TKO 41%35 on the cards 44%12 by another method or unrecorded 15%

Marcial Zavala0 wins · from 2 tracked bouts

Marcial Zavala: no tracked wins in the 2 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

No tracked wins for Zavala yet.

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Battling Shaw 119, Marcial Zavala 2 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

1 shared

1 shared · even on 1

Shaw

Opponent

Zavala

  • Battling Shaw

    Loss, PTS

    1931

    ArizmendiEven

    Marcial Zavala

    Loss, PTS

    1931

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

Battling Shaw has lost seven straight. Shaw last boxed on Oct 1, 1936.LLLLL

Snipes Sep 1934Mexico Jul 1935Mack Nov 1935Saldana Apr 1936Velasco Oct 193612.8 tracked bouts per year

Marcial Zavala last boxed on Oct 17, 1931 — 34,706 days ago. Zavala had lost two straight.LL

Shaw Sep 1931Arizmendi Oct 1931

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Battling Shaw and Marcial Zavala ever fought each other?
Yes. Battling Shaw and Marcial Zavala met once on September 26, 1931, and Battling Shaw won by TKO in round 5.
The meeting

WSep 26, 1931 · Shaw · TKO R5

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Shaw or Zavala?
Battling Shaw is 79-29-9 and Marcial Zavala is 0-2 across the 2 bouts Kill The Body has tracked. Battling Shaw has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Shaw79–29–971.4%

Zavala0–20%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Shaw or Zavala?
Battling Shaw has 32 knockout wins and Marcial Zavala has 0. Battling Shaw has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Shaw3240.5%

Zavala0

The Numbers ↓
Do Shaw and Zavala have any common opponents?
Battling Shaw and Marcial Zavala share 1 common opponent: Baby Arizmendi. Neither fighter fared better across the shared opponents overall.
Shared opponent

Baby ArizmendiLL

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Shaw and Zavala?
This comparison is drawn from 119 bouts tracked for Battling Shaw and 2 bouts tracked for Marcial Zavala. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Shaw119bouts

Zavala2bouts

How They Win ↓

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