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Billy Stift vs Jack Root — record, stats and common opponents compared

Billy Stift

🇺🇸LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT, HEAVYWEIGHT

Jack Root

Billy Stift (2-16-3 across 21 tracked bouts) and Jack Root (47-3-3) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met 3 times. They share 5 common opponents.

Stift

Tracked record

2–16–3

counted from 21 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Root

47

Wins28 KO · 60%

3

Losses

3

Draws55 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

Root leads 3–0

Billy Stift and Jack Root have met 3 times; Root leads 3–0.

Billy Stift and Jack Root have met 3 times; Root leads 3–0.
Met1899Feb 161899Sep 231902Apr 26Series
Billy StiftFighter ALLostLLostLLost0–3W–L
Jack RootFighter BWWonWWonWWon3–0W–L
ResultDQR7PTSKOR23Meetings

The Numbers

Stift 0 · Root 6 of 6 measurable rows
StiftRoot
Record†
2-16-347-3-3 (edge)
Win %0–100%
16.7%
91.5% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 28
0
28 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—59.57%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
0%
60% (edge)
Times stopped‡max 8
8
3 (edge)
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 6.6
2.8
6.6 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 55
21
55

† 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 held
Billy Stift: No date of birth
Jack Root: Died aged 87

Billy Stift left, Jack Root right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored: younger is not better.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Billy Stift2 wins · from 21 tracked bouts

Billy Stift: 2 tracked wins — 1 on the cards (50%) and 1 by another method or unrecorded (50%). Counted from 21 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

1 on the cards 50%1 by another method or unrecorded 50%

Jack Root47 wins · from 55 tracked bouts

Jack Root: 47 tracked wins — 28 by KO/TKO (60%), 15 on the cards (32%) and 4 by another method or unrecorded (9%). Counted from 55 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

28 by KO/TKO 60%15 on the cards 32%4 by another method or unrecorded 9%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Billy Stift 21, Jack Root 55 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

5 shared

5 shared · Root better on 4 · even on 1

Stift

Opponent

Root

  • Billy Stift

    0–2 against

    Loss, PTS

    1902

    Loss, KO 3

    1902

    HartRoot better

    Jack Root

    1–1 against

    Loss, KO

    1905

    Win, PTS

    1902

  • Billy Stift

    0–2 against

    Loss, KO 5

    1905

    Loss, UD

    1902

    GardinerRoot better

    Jack Root

    2–2–1 against

    Win, PTS

    1904

    Draw, PTS

    1904

    Loss, TKO 12

    1903

    Loss, TKO 17

    1902

    Win, DQ 7

    1902

  • Billy Stift

    0–5 against

    Loss, KO 4

    1904

    Loss, KO 4

    1903

    Loss, PTS

    1902

    Loss, PTS

    1899

    Loss, TKO 6

    1897

    RyanRoot better

    Jack Root

    0–0–1 against

    No contest, NC 4

    1904

    Draw, PTS

    1900

  • Billy Stift

    Loss, KO 13

    1899

    McCoyRoot better

    Jack Root

    Win, PTS

    1903

  • Billy Stift

    1–0–1 against

    Win, PTS

    1901

    Draw, PTS

    1899

    ByersEven

    Jack Root

    Win, KO 9

    1901

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 Stift last boxed on Jun 19, 1905 — 44,316 days ago. Stift had lost 11 straight.LLLLL

Gardiner Dec 1902Ryan Jan 1903O'Brien Sep 1904Ryan Dec 1904Gardiner Jun 19052.8 tracked bouts per year

Jack Root has won once since losing by stoppage to Marvin Hart. Root last boxed on Feb 26, 1906.WNCWLW

Gardiner May 1904Ryan Nov 1904Willie Dec 1904Hart Jul 1905Russell Feb 19066.6 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Billy Stift and Jack Root ever fought each other?
Yes. Billy Stift and Jack Root have met 3 times and Jack Root leads the series 3-0.
The 3 meetings

LApr 26, 1902 · Root · KO R2

LSep 23, 1899 · Root · PTS

LFeb 16, 1899 · Root · DQ R7

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Stift or Root?
Billy Stift is 2-16-3 across the 21 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Jack Root is 47-3-3. Jack Root has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Stift2–16–316.7%

Root47–3–391.5%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Stift or Root?
Billy Stift has 0 knockout wins and Jack Root has 28. Jack Root has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Stift0

Root2859.6%

The Numbers ↓
Do Stift and Root have any common opponents?
Billy Stift and Jack Root share 5 common opponents: Marvin Hart, George Gardiner and Tommy Ryan (and 2 others). Jack Root fared better against 4 of them.
5 shared opponents

Marvin HartL1–1

George GardinerL2–2–1

Tommy RyanL0–0–1

Kid McCoyLW

and 1 more

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Stift and Root?
This comparison is drawn from 21 bouts tracked for Billy Stift and 55 bouts tracked for Jack Root. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Stift21bouts

Root55bouts

How They Win ↓

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