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Bill McMurray vs Ken Norton — record, stats and common opponents compared

Bill McMurray

🇺🇸HEAVYWEIGHT

Ken Norton

Bill McMurray (1-8 across 9 tracked bouts) and Ken Norton (42-7-1) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 2 common opponents.

McMurray

Tracked record

1–8

counted from 9 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Norton

42

Wins33 KO · 79%

7

Losses

1

Draw50 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

Norton leads 1–0

Bill McMurray and Ken Norton have met 1 time; Norton leads 1–0.

Bill McMurray and Ken Norton have met 1 time; Norton leads 1–0.
Met1969Jul 25Series
Bill McMurrayFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Ken NortonFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultTKOR71Meeting

The Numbers

McMurray 1 · Norton 6 of 7 measurable rows
McMurrayNorton
Record†
1-842-7-1 (edge)
Win %0–100%
11.1%
85% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 33
1
33 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—78.57%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
100% (edge)
79%
Times stopped‡max 6
6
4 (edge)
Title reignsmax 1
0
1 (edge)
Bouts per year§max 3.7
1.2
3.7 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 50
9
50

† 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
Bill McMurray: No height on file
Ken Norton: 6′3″
Reachnot held
Bill McMurray: No reach on file
Ken Norton: 80″
Agenot held
Bill McMurray: No date of birth
Ken Norton: Died aged 70
Stance
Bill McMurray: Not recorded
Ken Norton: Orthodox

Bill McMurray left, Ken Norton right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Bill McMurray1 win · from 9 tracked bouts

Bill McMurray: 1 tracked win — 1 by KO/TKO (100%). Counted from 9 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

1 by KO/TKO 100%

Ken Norton42 wins · from 50 tracked bouts

Ken Norton: 42 tracked wins — 33 by KO/TKO (79%) and 9 on the cards (21%). Counted from 50 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

33 by KO/TKO 79%9 on the cards 21%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Bill McMurray 9, Ken Norton 50 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

2 shared

2 shared · Norton better on 1 · even on 1

McMurray

Opponent

Norton

  • Bill McMurray

    Loss, KO 1

    1971

    ShaversEven

    Ken Norton

    Loss, KO 1

    1979

  • Bill McMurray

    0–2 against

    Loss, TKO

    1970

    Loss, UD

    1968

    KirkmanNorton better

    Ken Norton

    Win, RTD 7

    1974

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

Bill McMurray last boxed on Jul 13, 1971 — 20,189 days ago. McMurray had lost seven straight.LLLLL

Kirkman Sep 1968Norton Jul 1969Lewis Nov 1969Kirkman Apr 1970Shavers Jul 19711.2 tracked bouts per year

Ken Norton had won one in a row before losing by stoppage to Gerry Cooney. Norton last boxed on May 11, 1981.WLDWL

Stephens Nov 1978Shavers Mar 1979LeDoux Aug 1979Cobb Nov 1980Cooney May 19813.7 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Bill McMurray and Ken Norton ever fought each other?
Yes. Bill McMurray and Ken Norton met once on July 25, 1969, and Ken Norton won by TKO in round 7.
The meeting

LJul 25, 1969 · Norton · TKO R7

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, McMurray or Norton?
Bill McMurray is 1-8 across the 9 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Ken Norton is 42-7-1. Ken Norton has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

McMurray1–811.1%

Norton42–7–185%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, McMurray or Norton?
Bill McMurray has 1 knockout win and Ken Norton has 33. Ken Norton has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

McMurray1

Norton3378.6%

The Numbers ↓
Do McMurray and Norton have any common opponents?
Bill McMurray and Ken Norton share 2 common opponents: Earnie Shavers and Boone Kirkman. Ken Norton fared better against 1 of them.
2 shared opponents

Earnie ShaversLL

Boone KirkmanLW

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on McMurray and Norton?
This comparison is drawn from 9 bouts tracked for Bill McMurray and 50 bouts tracked for Ken Norton. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

McMurray9bouts

Norton50bouts

How They Win ↓

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