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Billy Gilliam vs Niño Valdés — record, stats and common opponents compared

Billy Gilliam

🇨🇺CUBA

Niño Valdés

Billy Gilliam (1-2 across 3 tracked bouts) and Niño Valdés (48-18-3) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 2 common opponents.

Gilliam

Tracked record

1–2

counted from 3 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Valdés

48

Wins36 KO · 75%

18

Losses

3

Draws70 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

Gilliam leads 1–0

Billy Gilliam and Niño Valdés have met 1 time; Gilliam leads 1–0.

Billy Gilliam and Niño Valdés have met 1 time; Gilliam leads 1–0.
Met1953Apr 20Series
Billy GilliamFighter AWWon1–0W–L
Niño ValdésFighter BLLost0–1W–L
ResultSD1Meeting

The Numbers

Gilliam 1 · Valdés 4 of 5 measurable rows
GilliamValdés
Record†
1-248-18-3 (edge)
Win %0–100%
33.3%
71.7% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 36
0
36 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—75%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
0%
75% (edge)
Times stopped‡max 5
0 (edge)
5
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§not comparable
—3.9
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 70
3
70

† 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 Gilliam: No height on file
Niño Valdés: 6′3″
Reachnot held
Billy Gilliam: No reach on file
Niño Valdés: 78″
Agenot held
Billy Gilliam: No date of birth
Niño Valdés: Died aged 76
Stance
Billy Gilliam: Not recorded
Niño Valdés: Orthodox

Billy Gilliam left, Niño Valdés 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 Gilliam1 win · from 3 tracked bouts

Billy Gilliam: 1 tracked win — 1 on the cards (100%). Counted from 3 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

1 on the cards 100%

Niño Valdés48 wins · from 70 tracked bouts

Niño Valdés: 48 tracked wins — 36 by KO/TKO (75%) and 12 on the cards (25%). Counted from 70 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

36 by KO/TKO 75%12 on the cards 25%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Billy Gilliam 3, Niño Valdés 70 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

2 shared

2 shared · Valdés better on 1 · even on 1

Gilliam

Opponent

Valdés

  • Billy Gilliam

    Loss, UD

    1953

    CharlesValdés better

    Niño Valdés

    Win, UD

    1953

  • Billy Gilliam

    Loss, UD

    1953

    JohnsonEven

    Niño Valdés

    Loss, UD

    1952

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 Gilliam last boxed on May 12, 1953 — 26,827 days ago. Gilliam had won one in a row before losing a decision to Ezzard Charles.LWL

Johnson Mar 1953Valdés Apr 1953Charles May 1953

Niño Valdés has won once since losses to Alonzo Johnson and Sonny Liston. Valdés last boxed on Dec 1, 1959.LWLLW

Powell Mar 1959Hodge Apr 1959Johnson May 1959Liston Aug 1959London Dec 19593.9 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Billy Gilliam and Niño Valdés ever fought each other?
Yes. Billy Gilliam and Niño Valdés met once on April 20, 1953, and Billy Gilliam won by SD.
The meeting

WApr 20, 1953 · Gilliam · SD

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Gilliam or Valdés?
Billy Gilliam is 1-2 across the 3 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Niño Valdés is 48-18-3. Niño Valdés has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Gilliam1–233.3%

Valdés48–18–371.7%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Gilliam or Valdés?
Billy Gilliam has 0 knockout wins and Niño Valdés has 36. Niño Valdés has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Gilliam0

Valdés3675%

The Numbers ↓
Do Gilliam and Valdés have any common opponents?
Billy Gilliam and Niño Valdés share 2 common opponents: Ezzard Charles and Harold Johnson. Niño Valdés fared better against 1 of them.
2 shared opponents

Ezzard CharlesLW

Harold JohnsonLL

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Gilliam and Valdés?
This comparison is drawn from 3 bouts tracked for Billy Gilliam and 70 bouts tracked for Niño Valdés. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Gilliam3bouts

Valdés70bouts

How They Win ↓

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