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Gary Poole vs Melvin Foster — record, stats and common opponents compared

Gary Poole

🇺🇸UNITED STATES

Melvin Foster

Gary Poole (0-1 across 1 tracked bout) and Melvin Foster (24-13-1) 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.

Poole

Tracked record

0–1

counted from 1 bout Kill The Body has ingested

Foster

24

Wins

13

Losses

1

Draw38 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

Foster leads 1–0

Gary Poole and Melvin Foster have met 1 time; Foster leads 1–0.

Gary Poole and Melvin Foster have met 1 time; Foster leads 1–0.
Met1993Jul 2Series
Gary PooleFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Melvin FosterFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultTKO1Meeting

The Numbers

Poole 1 · Foster 2 of 3 measurable rows
PooleFoster
Record†
0-124-13-1 (edge)
Win %0–100%
0%
64.5% (edge)
Wins by knockoutlevelmax 0
0
0
KO ratenot comparable
—0%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡not comparable
—75%
Times stopped‡max 8
1 (edge)
8
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§not comparable
—3
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 38
1
38

† 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
Gary Poole: No date of birth
Melvin Foster: 55

Gary Poole left, Melvin Foster right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored: younger is not better.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Gary Poole0 wins · from 1 tracked bout

Gary Poole: no tracked wins in the 1 bout Kill The Body has ingested.

No tracked wins for Poole yet.

Melvin Foster24 wins · from 38 tracked bouts

Melvin Foster: 24 tracked wins — 18 by KO/TKO (75%) and 6 on the cards (25%). Counted from 38 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

18 by KO/TKO 75%6 on the cards 25%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Gary Poole 1, Melvin Foster 38 — 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

Gary Poole last boxed on Jul 2, 1993 — 12,164 days ago. Poole had lost the most recent, to Melvin Foster.L

Foster Jul 1993

Melvin Foster last boxed on Apr 22, 2005 — 7,852 days ago. Foster had won one in a row before losing by stoppage to Eddie Chambers.LLLWL

Saleem Dec 2001Nicholson Jan 2002Boswell Sep 2002Perryman Feb 2005Chambers Apr 20053 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Gary Poole and Melvin Foster ever fought each other?
Yes. Gary Poole and Melvin Foster met once on July 2, 1993, and Melvin Foster won by TKO.
The meeting

LJul 2, 1993 · Foster · TKO

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Poole or Foster?
Gary Poole is 0-1 across the 1 bout Kill The Body has tracked and Melvin Foster is 24-13-1. Melvin Foster has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Poole0–10%

Foster24–13–164.5%

The Numbers ↓
Do Poole and Foster have any common opponents?
Kill The Body's bout data shows no opponents that both Gary Poole and Melvin Foster have faced.
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Poole and Foster?
This comparison is drawn from 1 bout tracked for Gary Poole and 38 bouts tracked for Melvin Foster. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Poole1bout

Foster38bouts

How They Win ↓

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