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Dick Turpin vs Marcel Cerdan — record, stats and common opponents compared

🇬🇧MIDDLEWEIGHT

Dick Turpin

Cross-division

🇫🇷WELTERWEIGHT

Marcel Cerdan

Dick Turpin (81-21-5) and Marcel Cerdan (110-4) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 3 common opponents.

Turpin

81

Wins

21

Losses

5

Draws111 tracked bouts

Cerdan

110

Wins65 KO · 59%

4

Losses

0

Draws114 tracked bouts

Head to Head

Cerdan leads 1–0

Dick Turpin and Marcel Cerdan have met 1 time; Cerdan leads 1–0.

Dick Turpin and Marcel Cerdan have met 1 time; Cerdan leads 1–0.
Met1949Mar 29Series
Dick TurpinFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Marcel CerdanFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultKOR71Meeting

The Numbers

Turpin 1 · Cerdan 7 of 8 measurable rows
TurpinCerdan
Record
81-21-5110-4 (edge)
Win %0–100%
78%
96.5% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 65
0
65 (edge)
KO rate0–100%
0%
59.09% (edge)
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)†0–100%
43%
59% (edge)
Times stopped†max 8
8
1 (edge)
Title reignsmax 2
0
2 (edge)
Bouts per year‡max 8.3
8.3 (edge)
7.8
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 114
111
114

† 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
Dick Turpin: No height on file
Marcel Cerdan: 5′7″
Reachnot held
Dick Turpin: No reach on file
Marcel Cerdan: 69″
Agenot comparable
Dick Turpin: Died aged 69
Marcel Cerdan: Died aged 33
Stance
Dick Turpin: Orthodox
Marcel Cerdan: Orthodox

Dick Turpin left, Marcel Cerdan right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

Middleweight against Welterweight. The two are listed in different weight classes, so the tape measures them as they stand rather than as a matchup.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Dick Turpin82 wins · from 111 tracked bouts

Dick Turpin: 82 tracked wins — 35 by KO/TKO (43%), 45 on the cards (55%) and 2 by another method or unrecorded (2%). Counted from 111 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

35 by KO/TKO 43%45 on the cards 55%2 by another method or unrecorded 2%

Marcel Cerdan110 wins · from 114 tracked bouts

Marcel Cerdan: 110 tracked wins — 65 by KO/TKO (59%) and 45 on the cards (41%). Counted from 114 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

65 by KO/TKO 59%45 on the cards 41%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Dick Turpin 111, Marcel Cerdan 114 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

3 shared

3 shared · Turpin better on 1 · Cerdan better on 1 · even on 1

Turpin

Opponent

Cerdan

  • Dick Turpin

    Loss, RTD 7

    1950

    DelannoitCerdan better

    Marcel Cerdan

    1–1 against

    Win, PTS

    1948

    Loss, PTS

    1948

  • Dick Turpin

    Win, DQ 5

    1949

    CharronEven

    Marcel Cerdan

    Win, PTS

    1946

  • Dick Turpin

    2–0 against

    Win, TKO 5

    1947

    Win, PTS

    1940

    DaviesTurpin better

    Marcel Cerdan

    Win, KO 1

    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

Dick Turpin has lost five straight. Turpin last boxed on Jan 29, 1951.LLLLL

Day Mar 1950Finch Apr 1950Delannoit May 1950Finch Jul 1950Bassey Jan 19518.3 tracked bouts per year

Marcel Cerdan had won four in a row before losing by stoppage to Jake LaMotta. Cerdan last boxed on Jun 16, 1949.WWWWL

Delannoit Jul 1948Zale Sep 1948Turpin Mar 1949Krawczyk May 1949LaMotta Jun 19497.8 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Dick Turpin and Marcel Cerdan ever fought each other?
Yes. Dick Turpin and Marcel Cerdan met once on March 29, 1949, and Marcel Cerdan won by KO in round 7.
The meeting

LMar 29, 1949 · Cerdan · KO R7

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Turpin or Cerdan?
Dick Turpin is 81-21-5 and Marcel Cerdan is 110-4. Marcel Cerdan has the higher win percentage.
Records · win %

Turpin81–21–578%

Cerdan110–496.5%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Turpin or Cerdan?
Dick Turpin has 0 knockout wins and Marcel Cerdan has 65. Marcel Cerdan has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Turpin0

Cerdan6559.1%

The Numbers ↓
Do Turpin and Cerdan have any common opponents?
Dick Turpin and Marcel Cerdan share 3 common opponents: Cyrille Delannoit, Robert Charron and Tommy Davies. Neither fighter fared better across the shared opponents overall.
3 shared opponents

Cyrille DelannoitL1–1

Robert CharronWW

Tommy DaviesWW

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Turpin and Cerdan?
This comparison is drawn from 111 bouts tracked for Dick Turpin and 114 bouts tracked for Marcel Cerdan. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Turpin111bouts

Cerdan114bouts

How They Win ↓

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