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Billy Soose vs Ernest Peirce — record, stats and common opponents compared

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Billy Soose

🇿🇦SOUTH AFRICA

Ernest Peirce

Billy Soose (34-6-1) and Ernest Peirce (1-4-1 across 6 tracked bouts) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 2 common opponents.

Soose

34

Wins13 KO · 38%

6

Losses

1

Draw41 tracked bouts

Peirce

Tracked record

1–4–1

counted from 6 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

Soose leads 1–0

Billy Soose and Ernest Peirce have met 1 time; Soose leads 1–0.

Billy Soose and Ernest Peirce have met 1 time; Soose leads 1–0.
Met1940May 15Series
Billy SooseFighter AWWon1–0W–L
Ernest PeirceFighter BLLost0–1W–L
ResultPTS1Meeting

The Numbers

Soose 5 · Peirce 0 of 5 measurable rows
SoosePeirce
Record†
34-6-1 (edge)1-4-1
Win %0–100%
84.1% (edge)
25%
Wins by knockoutmax 13
13 (edge)
0
KO ratenot comparable
38.24%—
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
38% (edge)
0%
Times stopped‡levelmax 0
0
0
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 10.7
10.7 (edge)
1.2
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 41
41
6

† 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

Agenot comparable
Billy Soose: Died aged 83
Ernest Peirce: Died aged 88
Stance
Billy Soose: Orthodox
Ernest Peirce: Not recorded

Billy Soose left, Ernest Peirce 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 Soose34 wins · from 41 tracked bouts

Billy Soose: 34 tracked wins — 13 by KO/TKO (38%) and 21 on the cards (62%). Counted from 41 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

13 by KO/TKO 38%21 on the cards 62%

Ernest Peirce1 win · from 6 tracked bouts

Ernest Peirce: 1 tracked win — 1 on the cards (100%). Counted from 6 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

1 on the cards 100%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Billy Soose 41, Ernest Peirce 6 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

2 shared

2 shared · Soose better on 1 · even on 1

Soose

Opponent

Peirce

  • Billy Soose

    2–0 against

    Win, UD

    1941

    Win, SD

    1940

    OverlinSoose better

    Ernest Peirce

    0–1–1 against

    Loss, PTS

    1940

    Draw, PTS

    1939

  • Billy Soose

    Loss, UD

    1938

    BurleyEven

    Ernest Peirce

    Loss, PTS

    1940

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 Soose had won one in a row before losing a decision to Jimmy Bivins. Soose last boxed on Jan 13, 1942.WLDWL

Celli Jul 1941Abrams Jul 1941Garcia Sep 1941Reeves Dec 1941Bivins Jan 194210.7 tracked bouts per year

Ernest Peirce has lost four straight. Peirce last boxed on Feb 27, 1942.DLLLL

Overlin Jul 1939Soose May 1940Overlin Sep 1940Burley Oct 1940Marshall Feb 19421.2 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Billy Soose and Ernest Peirce ever fought each other?
Yes. Billy Soose and Ernest Peirce met once on May 15, 1940, and Billy Soose won by PTS.
The meeting

WMay 15, 1940 · Soose · PTS

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Soose or Peirce?
Billy Soose is 34-6-1 and Ernest Peirce is 1-4-1 across the 6 bouts Kill The Body has tracked. Billy Soose has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Soose34–6–184.1%

Peirce1–4–125%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Soose or Peirce?
Billy Soose has 13 knockout wins and Ernest Peirce has 0. Billy Soose has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Soose1338.2%

Peirce0

The Numbers ↓
Do Soose and Peirce have any common opponents?
Billy Soose and Ernest Peirce share 2 common opponents: Ken Overlin and Charley Burley. Billy Soose fared better against 1 of them.
2 shared opponents

Ken OverlinW0–1–1

Charley BurleyLL

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Soose and Peirce?
This comparison is drawn from 41 bouts tracked for Billy Soose and 6 bouts tracked for Ernest Peirce. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Soose41bouts

Peirce6bouts

How They Win ↓

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