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Farmer Joe Cooper vs Lew Tendler — record, stats and common opponents compared

Farmer Joe Cooper

🇺🇸WELTERWEIGHT

Lew Tendler

Farmer Joe Cooper (1-6 across 7 tracked bouts) and Lew Tendler (145-16-8) 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.

Cooper

Tracked record

1–6

counted from 7 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Tendler

145

Wins38 KO · 26%

16

Losses

8

Draws170 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

Tendler leads 1–0

Farmer Joe Cooper and Lew Tendler have met 1 time; Tendler leads 1–0.

Farmer Joe Cooper and Lew Tendler have met 1 time; Tendler leads 1–0.
Met1926Oct 15Series
Farmer Joe CooperFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Lew TendlerFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultPTS1Meeting

The Numbers

Cooper 0 · Tendler 6 of 6 measurable rows
CooperTendler
Record†
1-6145-16-8 (edge)
Win %0–100%
14.3%
88.2% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 38
0
38 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—26.21%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
0%
27% (edge)
Times stopped‡max 3
3
1 (edge)
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 11.6
1.7
11.6 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 170
7
170

† 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
Farmer Joe Cooper: No date of birth
Lew Tendler: Died aged 72
Stance
Farmer Joe Cooper: Not recorded
Lew Tendler: Southpaw

Farmer Joe Cooper left, Lew Tendler right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Farmer Joe Cooper1 win · from 7 tracked bouts

Farmer Joe Cooper: 1 tracked win — 1 on the cards (100%). Counted from 7 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

1 on the cards 100%

Lew Tendler145 wins · from 170 tracked bouts

Lew Tendler: 145 tracked wins — 39 by KO/TKO (27%), 20 on the cards (14%) and 86 by another method or unrecorded (59%). Counted from 170 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

39 by KO/TKO 27%20 on the cards 14%86 by another method or unrecorded 59%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Farmer Joe Cooper 7, Lew Tendler 170 — 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

Farmer Joe Cooper last boxed on Nov 5, 1930 — 35,051 days ago. Cooper had won one in a row before losing by stoppage to Young Corbett III.LLLWL

Britton Mar 1929Fields Jun 1929Freeman Nov 1929Britton Dec 1929III Nov 19301.7 tracked bouts per year

Lew Tendler has won once since losing a decision to Ace Hudkins. Tendler last boxed on Jun 18, 1928.WWWLW

Forgione Nov 1927Martínez Dec 1927McFarland Jan 1928Hudkins Jan 1928Goldman Jun 192811.6 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Farmer Joe Cooper and Lew Tendler ever fought each other?
Yes. Farmer Joe Cooper and Lew Tendler met once on October 15, 1926, and Lew Tendler won by PTS.
The meeting

LOct 15, 1926 · Tendler · PTS

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Cooper or Tendler?
Farmer Joe Cooper is 1-6 across the 7 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Lew Tendler is 145-16-8. Lew Tendler has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Cooper1–614.3%

Tendler145–16–888.2%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Cooper or Tendler?
Farmer Joe Cooper has 0 knockout wins and Lew Tendler has 38. Lew Tendler has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Cooper0

Tendler3826.2%

The Numbers ↓
Do Cooper and Tendler have any common opponents?
Kill The Body's bout data shows no opponents that both Farmer Joe Cooper and Lew Tendler have faced.
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Cooper and Tendler?
This comparison is drawn from 7 bouts tracked for Farmer Joe Cooper and 170 bouts tracked for Lew Tendler. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Cooper7bouts

Tendler170bouts

How They Win ↓

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