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Denny Ball vs Henry Cooper — record, stats and common opponents compared

Denny Ball

🇬🇧HEAVYWEIGHT

Henry Cooper

Denny Ball (0-2 across 2 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.

Ball

Tracked record

0–2

counted from 2 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

Denny Ball and Henry Cooper have met 1 time; Cooper leads 1–0.

Denny Ball and Henry Cooper have met 1 time; Cooper leads 1–0.
Met1954Dec 7Series
Denny BallFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Henry CooperFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultKOR31Meeting

The Numbers

Ball 1 · Cooper 3 of 4 measurable rows
BallCooper
Record†
0-240-14-1 (edge)
Win %0–100%
0%
73.6% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 27
0
27 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—67.5%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡not comparable
—68%
Times stopped‡max 8
2 (edge)
8
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§not comparable
—3.3
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 55
2
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
Denny Ball: No height on file
Henry Cooper: 6′2″
Reachnot held
Denny Ball: No reach on file
Henry Cooper: 75″
Agenot held
Denny Ball: No date of birth
Henry Cooper: Died aged 76
Stance
Denny Ball: Not recorded
Henry Cooper: Orthodox

Denny Ball 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
Denny Ball0 wins · from 2 tracked bouts

Denny Ball: no tracked wins in the 2 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

No tracked wins for Ball yet.

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 — Denny Ball 2, Henry Cooper 55 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

1 shared

1 shared · Cooper better on 1

Ball

Opponent

Cooper

  • Denny Ball

    Loss, TKO

    1955

    RichardsonCooper better

    Henry Cooper

    2–0 against

    Win, KO 5

    1963

    Win, TKO 5

    1958

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

Denny Ball last boxed on Apr 18, 1955 — 26,116 days ago. Ball had lost two straight.LL

Cooper Dec 1954Richardson Apr 1955

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 Denny Ball and Henry Cooper ever fought each other?
Yes. Denny Ball and Henry Cooper met once on December 7, 1954, and Henry Cooper won by KO in round 3.
The meeting

LDec 7, 1954 · Cooper · KO R3

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Ball or Cooper?
Denny Ball is 0-2 across the 2 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 %

Ball0–20%

Cooper40–14–173.6%

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

Ball0

Cooper2767.5%

The Numbers ↓
Do Ball and Cooper have any common opponents?
Denny Ball and Henry Cooper share 1 common opponent: Dick Richardson. Henry Cooper fared better against 1 of them.
Shared opponent

Dick RichardsonLW

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Ball and Cooper?
This comparison is drawn from 2 bouts tracked for Denny Ball and 55 bouts tracked for Henry Cooper. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Ball2bouts

Cooper55bouts

How They Win ↓

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