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Buster Douglas vs Lou Savarese — record, stats and common opponents compared

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Buster Douglas

🇺🇸HEAVYWEIGHT

Lou Savarese

Buster Douglas (38-6-1) and Lou Savarese (46-7) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 3 common opponents.

Douglas

38

Wins25 KO · 66%

6

Losses

1

Draw46 tracked bouts

Savarese

46

Wins38 KO · 83%

7

Losses

0

Draws54 tracked bouts

Head to Head

Savarese leads 1–0

Buster Douglas and Lou Savarese have met 1 time; Savarese leads 1–0.

Buster Douglas and Lou Savarese have met 1 time; Savarese leads 1–0.
Met1998Jun 25Series
Buster DouglasFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Lou SavareseFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultKOR11Meeting

The Numbers

Douglas 1 · Savarese 7 of 8 measurable rows
DouglasSavarese
Record
38-6-146-7 (edge)
Win %0–100%
85.6%
86.8% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 38
25
38 (edge)
KO rate0–100%
65.79%
82.61% (edge)
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)†0–100%
66%
83% (edge)
Times stopped†max 5
5
3 (edge)
Title reignsmax 3
3 (edge)
0
Bouts per year‡max 3
2.6
3 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 54
46
54

† 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

Height+1″
Buster Douglas: 6′4″
Lou Savarese: 6′5″ (edge)
Reach+3″
Buster Douglas: 83″ (edge)
Lou Savarese: 80″
Age5 yrs apart
Buster Douglas: 66
Lou Savarese: 61
Stance
Buster Douglas: Orthodox
Lou Savarese: Not recorded

Buster Douglas left, Lou Savarese right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Buster Douglas38 wins · from 46 tracked bouts

Buster Douglas: 38 tracked wins — 25 by KO/TKO (66%), 12 on the cards (32%) and 1 by another method or unrecorded (3%). Counted from 46 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

25 by KO/TKO 66%12 on the cards 32%1 by another method or unrecorded 3%

Lou Savarese47 wins · from 54 tracked bouts

Lou Savarese: 47 tracked wins — 39 by KO/TKO (83%), 7 on the cards (15%) and 1 by another method or unrecorded (2%). Counted from 54 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

39 by KO/TKO 83%7 on the cards 15%1 by another method or unrecorded 2%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Buster Douglas 46, Lou Savarese 54 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

3 shared

3 shared · Douglas better on 1 · even on 2

Douglas

Opponent

Savarese

  • Buster Douglas

    Loss, KO 3

    1990

    HolyfieldEven

    Lou Savarese

    Loss, UD

    2007

  • Buster Douglas

    Win, KO 10

    1990

    TysonDouglas better

    Lou Savarese

    Loss, TKO 1

    2000

  • Buster Douglas

    Win, TKO 1

    1999

    CrowderEven

    Lou Savarese

    Win, TKO 1

    1990

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

Buster Douglas last boxed on Feb 19, 1999 — 10,109 days ago. Douglas had won two straight since losing by stoppage to Lou Savarese.WWLWW

Monaco May 1997Navarre Jul 1997Savarese Jun 1998Williams Dec 1998Crowder Feb 19992.6 tracked bouts per year

Lou Savarese last boxed on Jun 30, 2007 — 7,056 days ago. Savarese had won three in a row before losing a decision to Evander Holyfield.LWWWL

Nolan May 2004Rhode Mar 2006Fulton Jan 2007Hicks Apr 2007Holyfield Jun 20073 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Buster Douglas and Lou Savarese ever fought each other?
Yes. Buster Douglas and Lou Savarese met once on June 25, 1998, and Lou Savarese won by KO in round 1.
The meeting

LJun 25, 1998 · Savarese · KO R1

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Douglas or Savarese?
Buster Douglas is 38-6-1 and Lou Savarese is 46-7. Lou Savarese has the higher win percentage.
Records · win %

Douglas38–6–185.6%

Savarese46–786.8%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Douglas or Savarese?
Buster Douglas has 25 knockout wins and Lou Savarese has 38. Lou Savarese has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Douglas2565.8%

Savarese3882.6%

The Numbers ↓
Do Douglas and Savarese have any common opponents?
Buster Douglas and Lou Savarese share 3 common opponents: Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson and Andre Crowder. Buster Douglas fared better against 1 of them.
3 shared opponents

Evander HolyfieldLL

Mike TysonWL

Andre CrowderWW

Common Opponents ↓
Who is bigger, Douglas or Savarese?
Lou Savarese is the taller fighter at 196 cm, 4 cm above the other. Buster Douglas also has the longer reach, by 8 cm.
Height · reach

Douglas192 cm211 cm reach

Savarese196 cm203 cm reach

Tale of the Tape ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Douglas and Savarese?
This comparison is drawn from 46 bouts tracked for Buster Douglas and 54 bouts tracked for Lou Savarese. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Douglas46bouts

Savarese54bouts

How They Win ↓

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