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Cliff Purnell vs Henry Cooper — record, stats and common opponents compared

Cliff Purnell

🇬🇧HEAVYWEIGHT

Henry Cooper

Cliff Purnell (1-2 across 3 tracked bouts) and Henry Cooper (40-14-1) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 1 common opponent.

Purnell

Tracked record

1–2

counted from 3 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Cooper

40

Wins27 KO · 68%

14

Losses

1

Draw55 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

Cooper leads 1–0

Cliff Purnell and Henry Cooper have met 1 time; Cooper leads 1–0.

Cliff Purnell and Henry Cooper have met 1 time; Cooper leads 1–0.
Met1955Feb 8Series
Cliff PurnellFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Henry CooperFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultPTS1Meeting

The Numbers

Purnell 1 · Cooper 5 of 6 measurable rows
PurnellCooper
Record†
1-240-14-1 (edge)
Win %0–100%
33.3%
73.6% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 27
0
27 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—67.5%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
0%
68% (edge)
Times stopped‡max 8
1 (edge)
8
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 3.3
2.2
3.3 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 55
3
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

Heightnot held
Cliff Purnell: No height on file
Henry Cooper: 6′2″
Reachnot held
Cliff Purnell: No reach on file
Henry Cooper: 75″
Agenot held
Cliff Purnell: No date of birth
Henry Cooper: Died aged 76
Stance
Cliff Purnell: Not recorded
Henry Cooper: Orthodox

Cliff Purnell left, Henry Cooper right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Cliff Purnell1 win · from 3 tracked bouts

Cliff Purnell: 1 tracked win — 1 on the cards (100%). Counted from 3 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

1 on the cards 100%

Henry Cooper40 wins · from 55 tracked bouts

Henry Cooper: 40 tracked wins — 27 by KO/TKO (68%), 11 on the cards (28%) and 2 by another method or unrecorded (5%). Counted from 55 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

27 by KO/TKO 68%11 on the cards 28%2 by another method or unrecorded 5%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Cliff Purnell 3, Henry Cooper 55 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

1 shared

1 shared · even on 1

Purnell

Opponent

Cooper

  • Cliff Purnell

    1–1 against

    Loss, KO

    1953

    Win, PTS

    1953

    BygravesEven

    Henry Cooper

    1–1 against

    Loss, KO 9

    1957

    Win, PTS

    1955

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

Cliff Purnell last boxed on Feb 8, 1955 — 26,187 days ago. Purnell had lost two straight, after one straight win.WLL

Bygraves Sep 1953Bygraves Oct 1953Cooper Feb 19552.2 tracked bouts per year

Henry Cooper had won four in a row before losing a decision to Joe Bugner. Cooper last boxed on Mar 16, 1971.WWWWL

Mildenberger Sep 1968Tomasoni Mar 1969Bodell Mar 1970Urtain Nov 1970Bugner Mar 19713.3 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Cliff Purnell and Henry Cooper ever fought each other?
Yes. Cliff Purnell and Henry Cooper met once on February 8, 1955, and Henry Cooper won by PTS.
The meeting

LFeb 8, 1955 · Cooper · PTS

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Purnell or Cooper?
Cliff Purnell is 1-2 across the 3 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Henry Cooper is 40-14-1. Henry Cooper has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Purnell1–233.3%

Cooper40–14–173.6%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Purnell or Cooper?
Cliff Purnell has 0 knockout wins and Henry Cooper has 27. Henry Cooper has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Purnell0

Cooper2767.5%

The Numbers ↓
Do Purnell and Cooper have any common opponents?
Cliff Purnell and Henry Cooper share 1 common opponent: Joe Bygraves. Neither fighter fared better across the shared opponents overall.
Shared opponent

Joe Bygraves1–11–1

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Purnell and Cooper?
This comparison is drawn from 3 bouts tracked for Cliff Purnell and 55 bouts tracked for Henry Cooper. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Purnell3bouts

Cooper55bouts

How They Win ↓

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