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Earl Puryear vs Newsboy Brown — record, stats and common opponents compared

Earl Puryear

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Newsboy Brown

Earl Puryear (0-12-4 across 16 tracked bouts) and Newsboy Brown (75-14-11) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share no common opponents in Kill The Body's bout data.

Puryear

Tracked record

0–12–4

counted from 16 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Brown

75

Wins

14

Losses

11

Draws100 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

Brown leads 1–0

Earl Puryear and Newsboy Brown have met 1 time; Brown leads 1–0.

Earl Puryear and Newsboy Brown have met 1 time; Brown leads 1–0.
Met1923Oct 19Series
Earl PuryearFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Newsboy BrownFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultNWS1Meeting

The Numbers

Puryear 1 · Brown 3 of 4 measurable rows
PuryearBrown
Record†
0-12-475-14-11 (edge)
Win %0–100%
12.5%
80.5% (edge)
Wins by knockoutlevelmax 0
0
0
KO ratenot comparable
—0%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡not comparable
—19%
Times stopped‡max 1
0 (edge)
1
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 8.4
2.6
8.4 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 100
16
100

† 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

Agenot held
Earl Puryear: No date of birth
Newsboy Brown: Died aged 71
Stance
Earl Puryear: Not recorded
Newsboy Brown: Orthodox

Earl Puryear left, Newsboy Brown right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Earl Puryear0 wins · from 16 tracked bouts

Earl Puryear: no tracked wins in the 16 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

No tracked wins for Puryear yet.

Newsboy Brown75 wins · from 100 tracked bouts

Newsboy Brown: 75 tracked wins — 14 by KO/TKO (19%), 44 on the cards (59%) and 17 by another method or unrecorded (23%). Counted from 100 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

14 by KO/TKO 19%44 on the cards 59%17 by another method or unrecorded 23%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Earl Puryear 16, Newsboy Brown 100 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

No opponents in common across the bouts Kill The Body has tracked for these two.

Current Form

Oldest left · newest right

Earl Puryear last boxed on Oct 19, 1923 — 37,625 days ago. Puryear had lost six straight.LLLLL

Williams Nov 1920Williams Apr 1921Goldstein Jul 1921Moore Nov 1921Brown Oct 19232.6 tracked bouts per year

Newsboy Brown has lost three straight, after one straight win. Brown last boxed on Apr 2, 1933.LWLLL

Arizmendi Jun 1932Arizmendi Jun 1932Pladner Aug 1932Arizmendi Oct 1932Casanova Apr 19338.4 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Earl Puryear and Newsboy Brown ever fought each other?
Yes. Earl Puryear and Newsboy Brown met once on October 19, 1923, and Newsboy Brown won by NWS.
The meeting

LOct 19, 1923 · Brown · NWS

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Puryear or Brown?
Earl Puryear is 0-12-4 across the 16 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Newsboy Brown is 75-14-11. Newsboy Brown has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Puryear0–12–412.5%

Brown75–14–1180.5%

The Numbers ↓
Do Puryear and Brown have any common opponents?
Kill The Body's bout data shows no opponents that both Earl Puryear and Newsboy Brown have faced.
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Puryear and Brown?
This comparison is drawn from 16 bouts tracked for Earl Puryear and 100 bouts tracked for Newsboy Brown. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Puryear16bouts

Brown100bouts

How They Win ↓

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