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Ernest Mateen vs Will Taylor — record, stats and common opponents compared

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Ernest Mateen

Will Taylor

Ernest Mateen (30-12-3) and Will Taylor (1-2 across 3 tracked bouts) 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.

Mateen

30

Wins

12

Losses

3

Draws45 tracked bouts

Taylor

Tracked record

1–2

counted from 3 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

Taylor leads 1–0

Ernest Mateen and Will Taylor have met 1 time; Taylor leads 1–0.

Ernest Mateen and Will Taylor have met 1 time; Taylor leads 1–0.
Met1997Nov 7Series
Ernest MateenFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Will TaylorFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultTKO1Meeting

The Numbers

Mateen 3 · Taylor 3 of 6 measurable rows
MateenTaylor
Record†
30-12-3 (edge)1-2
Win %0–100%
70% (edge)
33.3%
Wins by knockoutmax 1
0
1 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
0%—
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
33%
100% (edge)
Times stopped‡max 10
10
0 (edge)
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 3
3 (edge)
0.8
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 45
45
3

† 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
Ernest Mateen: Died aged 46
Will Taylor: No date of birth

Ernest Mateen left, Will Taylor right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored: younger is not better.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Ernest Mateen30 wins · from 45 tracked bouts

Ernest Mateen: 30 tracked wins — 10 by KO/TKO (33%), 18 on the cards (60%) and 2 by another method or unrecorded (7%). Counted from 45 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

10 by KO/TKO 33%18 on the cards 60%2 by another method or unrecorded 7%

Will Taylor1 win · from 3 tracked bouts

Will Taylor: 1 tracked win — 1 by KO/TKO (100%). Counted from 3 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 — Ernest Mateen 45, Will Taylor 3 — 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

Ernest Mateen has won once since losing by stoppage to Matt Godfrey. Mateen last boxed on Jun 10, 2006.LWWLW

Jirov Aug 2003Grant Nov 2003Smith Jan 2006Godfrey Feb 2006Porter Jun 20063 tracked bouts per year

Will Taylor last boxed on May 25, 2001 — 9,277 days ago. Taylor had lost two straight, after one straight win.WLL

Mateen Nov 1997Johnson Feb 1999Johnson May 20010.8 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Ernest Mateen and Will Taylor ever fought each other?
Yes. Ernest Mateen and Will Taylor met once on November 7, 1997, and Will Taylor won by TKO.
The meeting

LNov 7, 1997 · Taylor · TKO

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Mateen or Taylor?
Ernest Mateen is 30-12-3 and Will Taylor is 1-2 across the 3 bouts Kill The Body has tracked. Ernest Mateen has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Mateen30–12–370%

Taylor1–233.3%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Mateen or Taylor?
Ernest Mateen has 0 knockout wins and Will Taylor has 1. Will Taylor has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Mateen0

Taylor1

The Numbers ↓
Do Mateen and Taylor have any common opponents?
Kill The Body's bout data shows no opponents that both Ernest Mateen and Will Taylor have faced.
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Mateen and Taylor?
This comparison is drawn from 45 bouts tracked for Ernest Mateen and 3 bouts tracked for Will Taylor. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Mateen45bouts

Taylor3bouts

How They Win ↓

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