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Billy Donovan vs Matt Wells — record, stats and common opponents compared

Billy Donovan

🇬🇧UNITED KINGDOM

Matt Wells

Billy Donovan (0-5 across 5 tracked bouts) and Matt Wells (51-30-3) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 1 common opponent.

Donovan

Tracked record

0–5

counted from 5 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Wells

51

Wins

30

Losses

3

Draws85 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

Wells leads 1–0

Billy Donovan and Matt Wells have met 1 time; Wells leads 1–0.

Billy Donovan and Matt Wells have met 1 time; Wells leads 1–0.
Met1911Oct 5Series
Billy DonovanFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Matt WellsFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultKOR51Meeting

The Numbers

Donovan 0 · Wells 3 of 3 measurable rows
DonovanWells
Record†
0-551-30-3 (edge)
Win %0–100%
0%
62.5% (edge)
Wins by knockoutlevelmax 0
0
0
KO ratenot comparable
—0%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡not comparable
—14%
Times stopped‡levelmax 2
2
2
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 6.8
1
6.8 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 85
5
85

† 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
Billy Donovan: No height on file
Matt Wells: 5′4″
Agenot held
Billy Donovan: No date of birth
Matt Wells: Died aged 66
Stance
Billy Donovan: Not recorded
Matt Wells: Orthodox

Billy Donovan left, Matt Wells right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Billy Donovan0 wins · from 5 tracked bouts

Billy Donovan: no tracked wins in the 5 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

No tracked wins for Donovan yet.

Matt Wells51 wins · from 85 tracked bouts

Matt Wells: 51 tracked wins — 7 by KO/TKO (14%), 21 on the cards (41%) and 23 by another method or unrecorded (45%). Counted from 85 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

7 by KO/TKO 14%21 on the cards 41%23 by another method or unrecorded 45%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Billy Donovan 5, Matt Wells 85 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

1 shared

1 shared · even on 1

Donovan

Opponent

Wells

  • Billy Donovan

    Loss, NWS

    1910

    GloverEven

    Matt Wells

    Loss, PTS

    1915

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

Billy Donovan last boxed on Jan 1, 1915 — 40,840 days ago. Donovan had lost five straight.LLLLL

Glover Jan 1910Erne Jul 1910Wells Oct 1911Dillon Aug 1912Greb Jan 19151 tracked bouts per year

Matt Wells has won two straight since losing a decision to Ted Moore. Wells last boxed on May 12, 1922.LWLWW

Hall Aug 1921Clemente Oct 1921Moore Dec 1921Glen Apr 1922Hart May 19226.8 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Billy Donovan and Matt Wells ever fought each other?
Yes. Billy Donovan and Matt Wells met once on October 5, 1911, and Matt Wells won by KO in round 5.
The meeting

LOct 5, 1911 · Wells · KO R5

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Donovan or Wells?
Billy Donovan is 0-5 across the 5 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Matt Wells is 51-30-3. Matt Wells has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Donovan0–50%

Wells51–30–362.5%

The Numbers ↓
Do Donovan and Wells have any common opponents?
Billy Donovan and Matt Wells share 1 common opponent: Mike Glover. Neither fighter fared better across the shared opponents overall.
Shared opponent

Mike GloverLL

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Donovan and Wells?
This comparison is drawn from 5 bouts tracked for Billy Donovan and 85 bouts tracked for Matt Wells. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Donovan5bouts

Wells85bouts

How They Win ↓

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