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Buster Douglas vs Rocky Pepeli — record, stats and common opponents compared

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Buster Douglas

Rocky Pepeli

Buster Douglas (38-6-1) and Rocky Pepeli (1-6 across 7 tracked bouts) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 1 common opponent.

Douglas

38

Wins25 KO · 66%

6

Losses

1

Draw46 tracked bouts

Pepeli

Tracked record

1–6

counted from 7 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

Douglas leads 1–0

Buster Douglas and Rocky Pepeli have met 1 time; Douglas leads 1–0.

Buster Douglas and Rocky Pepeli have met 1 time; Douglas leads 1–0.
Met1997Jan 10Series
Buster DouglasFighter AWWon1–0W–L
Rocky PepeliFighter BLLost0–1W–L
ResultUD1Meeting

The Numbers

Douglas 5 · Pepeli 1 of 6 measurable rows
DouglasPepeli
Record†
38-6-1 (edge)1-6
Win %0–100%
85.6% (edge)
14.3%
Wins by knockoutmax 25
25 (edge)
1
KO ratenot comparable
65.79%—
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
66%
100% (edge)
Times stopped‡levelmax 5
5
5
Title reignsmax 3
3 (edge)
0
Bouts per year§max 2.6
2.6 (edge)
0.8
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 46
46
7

† 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

Heightnot held
Buster Douglas: 6′4″
Rocky Pepeli: No height on file
Reachnot held
Buster Douglas: 83″
Rocky Pepeli: No reach on file
Agenot held
Buster Douglas: 66
Rocky Pepeli: No date of birth
Stance
Buster Douglas: Orthodox
Rocky Pepeli: Not recorded

Buster Douglas left, Rocky Pepeli 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%

Rocky Pepeli1 win · from 7 tracked bouts

Rocky Pepeli: 1 tracked win — 1 by KO/TKO (100%). Counted from 7 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

1 by KO/TKO 100%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Buster Douglas 46, Rocky Pepeli 7 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

1 shared

1 shared · even on 1

Douglas

Opponent

Pepeli

  • Buster Douglas

    Loss, MD

    1985

    FergusonEven

    Rocky Pepeli

    Loss, TKO

    1993

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 — 10,110 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

Rocky Pepeli last boxed on Apr 2, 1998 — 10,433 days ago. Pepeli had lost five straight.LLLLL

Cooper Sep 1992Holmes Mar 1993Ferguson Jul 1993Douglas Jan 1997Johnson Apr 19980.8 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Buster Douglas and Rocky Pepeli ever fought each other?
Yes. Buster Douglas and Rocky Pepeli met once on January 10, 1997, and Buster Douglas won by UD.
The meeting

WJan 10, 1997 · Douglas · UD

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Douglas or Pepeli?
Buster Douglas is 38-6-1 and Rocky Pepeli is 1-6 across the 7 bouts Kill The Body has tracked. Buster Douglas has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Douglas38–6–185.6%

Pepeli1–614.3%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Douglas or Pepeli?
Buster Douglas has 25 knockout wins and Rocky Pepeli has 1. Buster Douglas has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Douglas2565.8%

Pepeli1

The Numbers ↓
Do Douglas and Pepeli have any common opponents?
Buster Douglas and Rocky Pepeli share 1 common opponent: Jesse Ferguson. Neither fighter fared better across the shared opponents overall.
Shared opponent

Jesse FergusonLL

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Douglas and Pepeli?
This comparison is drawn from 46 bouts tracked for Buster Douglas and 7 bouts tracked for Rocky Pepeli. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Douglas46bouts

Pepeli7bouts

How They Win ↓

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