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Happy Howard vs Jack Delaney — record, stats and common opponents compared

Happy Howard

🇨🇦LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT, HEAVYWEIGHT

Jack Delaney

Happy Howard (1-7 across 8 tracked bouts) and Jack Delaney (73-11-2) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 1 common opponent.

Howard

Tracked record

1–7

counted from 8 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Delaney

73

Wins43 KO · 59%

11

Losses

2

Draws90 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

Delaney leads 1–0

Happy Howard and Jack Delaney have met 1 time; Delaney leads 1–0.

Happy Howard and Jack Delaney have met 1 time; Delaney leads 1–0.
Met1921Aug 12Series
Happy HowardFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Jack DelaneyFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultPTS1Meeting

The Numbers

Howard 1 · Delaney 6 of 7 measurable rows
HowardDelaney
Record†
1-773-11-2 (edge)
Win %0–100%
12.5%
86% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 43
0
43 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—58.9%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
0%
57% (edge)
Times stopped‡max 3
0 (edge)
3
Title reignsmax 2
0
2 (edge)
Bouts per year§max 7.2
0.8
7.2 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 90
8
90

† 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
Happy Howard: No date of birth
Jack Delaney: Died aged 48
Stance
Happy Howard: Not recorded
Jack Delaney: Orthodox

Happy Howard left, Jack Delaney right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Happy Howard1 win · from 8 tracked bouts

Happy Howard: 1 tracked win — 1 by another method or unrecorded (100%). Counted from 8 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

1 by another method or unrecorded 100%

Jack Delaney75 wins · from 90 tracked bouts

Jack Delaney: 75 tracked wins — 43 by KO/TKO (57%), 28 on the cards (37%) and 4 by another method or unrecorded (5%). Counted from 90 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

43 by KO/TKO 57%28 on the cards 37%4 by another method or unrecorded 5%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Happy Howard 8, Jack Delaney 90 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

1 shared

1 shared · Delaney better on 1

Howard

Opponent

Delaney

  • Happy Howard

    1–1 against

    Win, NWS

    1916

    Loss, NWS

    1915

    McTigueDelaney better

    Jack Delaney

    Win, TKO 4

    1926

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

Happy Howard last boxed on Oct 27, 1924 — 37,246 days ago. Howard had lost six straight.LLLLL

Greb Jun 1919Delaney Aug 1921Stribling Apr 1923Stribling Jun 1923Smith Oct 19240.8 tracked bouts per year

Jack Delaney has won four straight since losing by stoppage to Jack Sharkey. Delaney last boxed on Apr 21, 1932.LWWWW

Sharkey Apr 1928Tassi Sep 1928Johnson Mar 1932Willis Mar 1932Williams Apr 19327.2 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Happy Howard and Jack Delaney ever fought each other?
Yes. Happy Howard and Jack Delaney met once on August 12, 1921, and Jack Delaney won by PTS.
The meeting

LAug 12, 1921 · Delaney · PTS

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Howard or Delaney?
Happy Howard is 1-7 across the 8 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Jack Delaney is 73-11-2. Jack Delaney has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Howard1–712.5%

Delaney73–11–286%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Howard or Delaney?
Happy Howard has 0 knockout wins and Jack Delaney has 43. Jack Delaney has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Howard0

Delaney4358.9%

The Numbers ↓
Do Howard and Delaney have any common opponents?
Happy Howard and Jack Delaney share 1 common opponent: Mike McTigue. Jack Delaney fared better against 1 of them.
Shared opponent

Mike McTigue1–1W

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Howard and Delaney?
This comparison is drawn from 8 bouts tracked for Happy Howard and 90 bouts tracked for Jack Delaney. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Howard8bouts

Delaney90bouts

How They Win ↓

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