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Bobby Mays vs Kid Kaplan — record, stats and common opponents compared

Bobby Mays

🇺🇸UNITED STATES

Kid Kaplan

Bobby Mays (0-1 across 1 tracked bouts) and Kid Kaplan (121-22-16) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share no common opponents in Kill The Body's bout data.

Mays

Tracked record

0–1

counted from 1 bout Kill The Body has ingested

Kaplan

121

Wins27 KO · 22%

22

Losses

16

Draws160 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

Kaplan leads 1–0

Bobby Mays and Kid Kaplan have met 1 time; Kaplan leads 1–0.

Bobby Mays and Kid Kaplan have met 1 time; Kaplan leads 1–0.
Met1928Feb 20Series
Bobby MaysFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Kid KaplanFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultPTS1Meeting

The Numbers

Mays 1 · Kaplan 3 of 4 measurable rows
MaysKaplan
Record†
0-1121-22-16 (edge)
Win %0–100%
0%
81.1% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 27
0
27 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—22.31%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡not comparable
—22%
Times stopped‡max 3
0 (edge)
3
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§not comparable
—10.7
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 160
1
160

† 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

Reachnot held
Bobby Mays: No reach on file
Kid Kaplan: 63″
Agenot held
Bobby Mays: No date of birth
Kid Kaplan: Died aged 69
Stance
Bobby Mays: Not recorded
Kid Kaplan: Orthodox

Bobby Mays left, Kid Kaplan right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Bobby Mays0 wins · from 1 tracked bout

Bobby Mays: no tracked wins in the 1 bout Kill The Body has ingested.

No tracked wins for Mays yet.

Kid Kaplan121 wins · from 160 tracked bouts

Kid Kaplan: 121 tracked wins — 27 by KO/TKO (22%), 75 on the cards (62%) and 19 by another method or unrecorded (16%). Counted from 160 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

27 by KO/TKO 22%75 on the cards 62%19 by another method or unrecorded 16%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Bobby Mays 1, Kid Kaplan 160 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

No opponents in common across the bouts Kill The Body has tracked for these two.

Current Form

Oldest left · newest right

Bobby Mays last boxed on Feb 20, 1928 — 36,035 days ago. Mays had lost the most recent, to Kid Kaplan.L

Kaplan Feb 1928

Kid Kaplan had won one in a row before losing a decision to Herbert Lewis Hardwick. Kaplan last boxed on Feb 20, 1933.WWLWL

Rossi Jul 1932Petrolle Aug 1932Villa Sep 1932Holmes Oct 1932Hardwick Feb 193310.7 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Bobby Mays and Kid Kaplan ever fought each other?
Yes. Bobby Mays and Kid Kaplan met once on February 20, 1928, and Kid Kaplan won by PTS.
The meeting

LFeb 20, 1928 · Kaplan · PTS

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Mays or Kaplan?
Bobby Mays is 0-1 across the 1 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Kid Kaplan is 121-22-16. Kid Kaplan has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Mays0–10%

Kaplan121–22–1681.1%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Mays or Kaplan?
Bobby Mays has 0 knockout wins and Kid Kaplan has 27. Kid Kaplan has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Mays0

Kaplan2722.3%

The Numbers ↓
Do Mays and Kaplan have any common opponents?
Kill The Body's bout data shows no opponents that both Bobby Mays and Kid Kaplan have faced.
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Mays and Kaplan?
This comparison is drawn from 1 bout tracked for Bobby Mays and 160 bouts tracked for Kid Kaplan. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Mays1bout

Kaplan160bouts

How They Win ↓

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