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Harold Gates vs Joe Knight — record, stats and common opponents compared

Harold Gates

🇺🇸UNITED STATES

Joe Knight

Harold Gates (0-1 across 1 tracked bout) and Joe Knight (125-19-18) 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.

Gates

Tracked record

0–1

counted from 1 bout Kill The Body has ingested

Knight

125

Wins66 KO · 53%

19

Losses

18

Draws164 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

Knight leads 1–0

Harold Gates and Joe Knight have met 1 time; Knight leads 1–0.

Harold Gates and Joe Knight have met 1 time; Knight leads 1–0.
Met1928Mar 16Series
Harold GatesFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Joe KnightFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultPTS1Meeting

The Numbers

Gates 0 · Knight 4 of 4 measurable rows
GatesKnight
Record†
0-1125-19-18 (edge)
Win %0–100%
0%
82.7% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 66
0
66 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—52.8%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡not comparable
—53%
Times stopped‡levelmax 0
0
0
Title reignsmax 1
0
1 (edge)
Bouts per year§not comparable
—15.6
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 164
1
164

† 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
Harold Gates: No height on file
Joe Knight: 6′0″
Reachnot held
Harold Gates: No reach on file
Joe Knight: 74″
Agenot held
Harold Gates: No date of birth
Joe Knight: Died aged 67
Stance
Harold Gates: Not recorded
Joe Knight: Southpaw

Harold Gates left, Joe Knight right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Harold Gates0 wins · from 1 tracked bout

Harold Gates: no tracked wins in the 1 bout Kill The Body has ingested.

No tracked wins for Gates yet.

Joe Knight125 wins · from 164 tracked bouts

Joe Knight: 125 tracked wins — 66 by KO/TKO (53%), 58 on the cards (46%) and 1 by another method or unrecorded (1%). Counted from 164 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

66 by KO/TKO 53%58 on the cards 46%1 by another method or unrecorded 1%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Harold Gates 1, Joe Knight 164 — 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

Harold Gates last boxed on Mar 16, 1928 — 36,018 days ago. Gates had lost the most recent, to Joe Knight.L

Knight Mar 1928

Joe Knight has won four straight since losing a decision to Melio Bettina. Knight last boxed on Apr 19, 1938.LWWWW

Bettina Jun 1937Anderson Mar 1938Boyle Mar 1938McDuff Apr 1938Gideon Apr 193815.6 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Harold Gates and Joe Knight ever fought each other?
Yes. Harold Gates and Joe Knight met once on March 16, 1928, and Joe Knight won by PTS.
The meeting

LMar 16, 1928 · Knight · PTS

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Gates or Knight?
Harold Gates is 0-1 across the 1 bout Kill The Body has tracked and Joe Knight is 125-19-18. Joe Knight has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Gates0–10%

Knight125–19–1882.7%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Gates or Knight?
Harold Gates has 0 knockout wins and Joe Knight has 66. Joe Knight has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Gates0

Knight6652.8%

The Numbers ↓
Do Gates and Knight have any common opponents?
Kill The Body's bout data shows no opponents that both Harold Gates and Joe Knight have faced.
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Gates and Knight?
This comparison is drawn from 1 bout tracked for Harold Gates and 164 bouts tracked for Joe Knight. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Gates1bout

Knight164bouts

How They Win ↓

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