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Bobby Ruffin vs Willie Joyce — record, stats and common opponents compared

Bobby Ruffin

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Willie Joyce

Bobby Ruffin (2-5-1 across 8 tracked bouts) and Willie Joyce (71-21-10) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 4 common opponents.

Ruffin

Tracked record

2–5–1

counted from 8 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Joyce

71

Wins16 KO · 23%

21

Losses

10

Draws103 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

Joyce leads 1–0

Bobby Ruffin and Willie Joyce have met 1 time; Joyce leads 1–0.

Bobby Ruffin and Willie Joyce have met 1 time; Joyce leads 1–0.
Met1945Jul 13Series
Bobby RuffinFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Willie JoyceFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultSD1Meeting

The Numbers

Ruffin 0 · Joyce 6 of 6 measurable rows
RuffinJoyce
Record†
2-5-171-21-10 (edge)
Win %0–100%
31.3%
74.5% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 16
0
16 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—22.54%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
0%
23% (edge)
Times stopped‡max 1
1
0 (edge)
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 11
1.8
11 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 103
8
103

† 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

Stance
Bobby Ruffin: Not recorded
Willie Joyce: Orthodox

Bobby Ruffin left, Willie Joyce right, as everywhere on this page. Stance is stated, not scored.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Bobby Ruffin2 wins · from 8 tracked bouts

Bobby Ruffin: 2 tracked wins — 2 on the cards (100%). Counted from 8 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

2 on the cards 100%

Willie Joyce71 wins · from 103 tracked bouts

Willie Joyce: 71 tracked wins — 16 by KO/TKO (23%) and 55 on the cards (77%). Counted from 103 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

16 by KO/TKO 23%55 on the cards 77%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Bobby Ruffin 8, Willie Joyce 103 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

4 shared

4 shared · Ruffin better on 2 · Joyce better on 1 · even on 1

Ruffin

Opponent

Joyce

  • Bobby Ruffin

    Draw, PTS

    1944

    LarkinRuffin better

    Willie Joyce

    0–3 against

    Loss, UD

    1946

    Loss, UD

    1946

    Loss, UD

    1945

  • Bobby Ruffin

    Loss, TKO 5

    1946

    WilliamsJoyce better

    Willie Joyce

    3–1 against

    Win, SD

    1945

    Win, UD

    1945

    Loss, UD

    1945

    Win, SD

    1944

  • Bobby Ruffin

    Win, UD

    1943

    JackRuffin better

    Willie Joyce

    Loss, UD

    1945

  • Bobby Ruffin

    1–1 against

    Loss, UD

    1945

    Win, UD

    1942

    WrightEven

    Willie Joyce

    1–1 against

    Loss, UD

    1945

    Win, UD

    1945

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

Bobby Ruffin last boxed on Jun 12, 1946 — 29,349 days ago. Ruffin had lost three straight.LDLLL

Angott Dec 1943Larkin Jan 1944Joyce Jul 1945Wright Oct 1945Williams Jun 19461.8 tracked bouts per year

Willie Joyce last boxed on Mar 24, 1947 — 29,064 days ago. Joyce had lost the most recent, to Johnny Cesario.LWLDL

Bratton Oct 1946Castiglione Nov 1946Bratton Dec 1946Petrone Jan 1947Cesario Mar 194711 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Bobby Ruffin and Willie Joyce ever fought each other?
Yes. Bobby Ruffin and Willie Joyce met once on July 13, 1945, and Willie Joyce won by SD.
The meeting

LJul 13, 1945 · Joyce · SD

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Ruffin or Joyce?
Bobby Ruffin is 2-5-1 across the 8 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Willie Joyce is 71-21-10. Willie Joyce has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Ruffin2–5–131.3%

Joyce71–21–1074.5%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Ruffin or Joyce?
Bobby Ruffin has 0 knockout wins and Willie Joyce has 16. Willie Joyce has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Ruffin0

Joyce1622.5%

The Numbers ↓
Do Ruffin and Joyce have any common opponents?
Bobby Ruffin and Willie Joyce share 4 common opponents: Tippy Larkin, Ike Williams and Beau Jack (and 1 other). Bobby Ruffin fared better against 2 of them.
4 shared opponents

Tippy LarkinDL

Ike WilliamsL3–1

Beau JackWL

Chalky Wright1–11–1

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Ruffin and Joyce?
This comparison is drawn from 8 bouts tracked for Bobby Ruffin and 103 bouts tracked for Willie Joyce. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Ruffin8bouts

Joyce103bouts

How They Win ↓

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