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Billy Hunter vs Sonny Liston — record, stats and common opponents compared

Billy Hunter

🇺🇸HEAVYWEIGHT

Sonny Liston

Billy Hunter (0-2 across 2 tracked bouts) and Sonny Liston (50-4) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 1 common opponent.

Hunter

Tracked record

0–2

counted from 2 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Liston

50

Wins39 KO · 78%

4

Losses

0

Draws54 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

Liston leads 1–0

Billy Hunter and Sonny Liston have met 1 time; Liston leads 1–0.

Billy Hunter and Sonny Liston have met 1 time; Liston leads 1–0.
Met1958Jan 29Series
Billy HunterFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Sonny ListonFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultTKOR21Meeting

The Numbers

Hunter 1 · Liston 5 of 6 measurable rows
HunterListon
Record†
0-250-4 (edge)
Win %0–100%
0%
92.6% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 39
0
39 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—78%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡not comparable
—78%
Times stopped‡max 3
2 (edge)
3
Title reignsmax 3
0
3 (edge)
Bouts per year§max 3.2
1
3.2 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 54
2
54

† 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 Hunter: No height on file
Sonny Liston: 6′1″
Reachnot held
Billy Hunter: No reach on file
Sonny Liston: 84″
Stance
Billy Hunter: Not recorded
Sonny Liston: Orthodox

Billy Hunter left, Sonny Liston right, as everywhere on this page. Stance is stated, not scored.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Billy Hunter0 wins · from 2 tracked bouts

Billy Hunter: no tracked wins in the 2 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

No tracked wins for Hunter yet.

Sonny Liston50 wins · from 54 tracked bouts

Sonny Liston: 50 tracked wins — 39 by KO/TKO (78%) and 11 on the cards (22%). Counted from 54 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

39 by KO/TKO 78%11 on the cards 22%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Billy Hunter 2, Sonny Liston 54 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

1 shared

1 shared · Liston better on 1

Hunter

Opponent

Liston

  • Billy Hunter

    Loss, TKO

    1960

    MachenListon better

    Sonny Liston

    Win, UD

    1960

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 Hunter last boxed on Feb 26, 1960 — 24,341 days ago. Hunter had lost two straight.LL

Liston Jan 1958Machen Feb 19601 tracked bouts per year

Sonny Liston has won once since losing by stoppage to Leotis Martin. Liston last boxed on Jun 29, 1970.WWWLW

Joiner Mar 1969Johnson May 1969Moore Sep 1969Martin Dec 1969Wepner Jun 19703.2 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Billy Hunter and Sonny Liston ever fought each other?
Yes. Billy Hunter and Sonny Liston met once on January 29, 1958, and Sonny Liston won by TKO in round 2.
The meeting

LJan 29, 1958 · Liston · TKO R2

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Hunter or Liston?
Billy Hunter is 0-2 across the 2 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Sonny Liston is 50-4. Sonny Liston has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Hunter0–20%

Liston50–492.6%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Hunter or Liston?
Billy Hunter has 0 knockout wins and Sonny Liston has 39. Sonny Liston has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Hunter0

Liston3978%

The Numbers ↓
Do Hunter and Liston have any common opponents?
Billy Hunter and Sonny Liston share 1 common opponent: Eddie Machen. Sonny Liston fared better against 1 of them.
Shared opponent

Eddie MachenLW

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Hunter and Liston?
This comparison is drawn from 2 bouts tracked for Billy Hunter and 54 bouts tracked for Sonny Liston. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Hunter2bouts

Liston54bouts

How They Win ↓

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Billy Hunter vs Sonny Liston — Records, Stats & Common Opponents