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Franco De Piccoli vs Wayne Bethea — record, stats and common opponents compared

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Franco De Piccoli

Wayne Bethea

Franco De Piccoli (37-4) and Wayne Bethea (5-10-1 across 16 tracked bouts) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 1 common opponent.

Piccoli

37

Wins29 KO · 78%

4

Losses

0

Draws41 tracked bouts

Bethea

Tracked record

5–10–1

counted from 16 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

Bethea leads 1–0

Franco De Piccoli and Wayne Bethea have met 1 time; Bethea leads 1–0.

Franco De Piccoli and Wayne Bethea have met 1 time; Bethea leads 1–0.
Met1963Mar 22Series
Franco De PiccoliFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Wayne BetheaFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultKO1Meeting

The Numbers

Piccoli 5 · Bethea 1 of 6 measurable rows
PiccoliBethea
Record†
37-4 (edge)5-10-1
Win %0–100%
90.2% (edge)
34.4%
Wins by knockoutmax 29
29 (edge)
2
KO ratenot comparable
78.38%—
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
78% (edge)
40%
Times stopped‡max 4
4
1 (edge)
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 8.2
8.2 (edge)
2.2
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 41
41
16

† 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
Franco De Piccoli: 6′1″
Wayne Bethea: No height on file
Agenot held
Franco De Piccoli: Died aged 88
Wayne Bethea: No date of birth

Franco De Piccoli left, Wayne Bethea right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored: younger is not better.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Franco De Piccoli37 wins · from 41 tracked bouts

Franco De Piccoli: 37 tracked wins — 29 by KO/TKO (78%), 6 on the cards (16%) and 2 by another method or unrecorded (5%). Counted from 41 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

29 by KO/TKO 78%6 on the cards 16%2 by another method or unrecorded 5%

Wayne Bethea5 wins · from 16 tracked bouts

Wayne Bethea: 5 tracked wins — 2 by KO/TKO (40%) and 3 on the cards (60%). Counted from 16 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

2 by KO/TKO 40%3 on the cards 60%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Franco De Piccoli 41, Wayne Bethea 16 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

1 shared

1 shared · Bethea better on 1

Piccoli

Opponent

Bethea

  • Franco De Piccoli

    Loss, KO

    1963

    BygravesBethea better

    Wayne Bethea

    2–0 against

    Win, UD

    1962

    Win, TKO

    1956

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

Franco De Piccoli has lost two straight, after three straight wins. Piccoli last boxed on Dec 26, 1965.WWWLL

Beasley Apr 1965Moore May 1965Johnson Jul 1965Copeland Oct 1965Weiland Dec 19658.2 tracked bouts per year

Wayne Bethea last boxed on Jul 6, 1963 — 23,121 days ago. Bethea had lost the most recent, to Karl Mildenberger.LWWDL

Cooper Feb 1962Bygraves Sep 1962Piccoli Mar 1963Rinaldi Apr 1963Mildenberger Jul 19632.2 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Franco De Piccoli and Wayne Bethea ever fought each other?
Yes. Franco De Piccoli and Wayne Bethea met once on March 22, 1963, and Wayne Bethea won by KO.
The meeting

LMar 22, 1963 · Bethea · KO

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Piccoli or Bethea?
Franco De Piccoli is 37-4 and Wayne Bethea is 5-10-1 across the 16 bouts Kill The Body has tracked. Franco De Piccoli has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Piccoli37–490.2%

Bethea5–10–134.4%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Piccoli or Bethea?
Franco De Piccoli has 29 knockout wins and Wayne Bethea has 2. Franco De Piccoli has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Piccoli2978.4%

Bethea2

The Numbers ↓
Do Piccoli and Bethea have any common opponents?
Franco De Piccoli and Wayne Bethea share 1 common opponent: Joe Bygraves. Wayne Bethea fared better against 1 of them.
Shared opponent

Joe BygravesLW

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Piccoli and Bethea?
This comparison is drawn from 41 bouts tracked for Franco De Piccoli and 16 bouts tracked for Wayne Bethea. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Piccoli41bouts

Bethea16bouts

How They Win ↓

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