Skip to main content
Kill The Body

and the head will die

Horace Bailey vs Johnny Saxton — record, stats and common opponents compared

Horace Bailey

🇺🇸WELTERWEIGHT

Johnny Saxton

Horace Bailey (0-1 across 1 tracked bout) and Johnny Saxton (55-9-2) 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.

Bailey

Tracked record

0–1

counted from 1 bout Kill The Body has ingested

Saxton

55

Wins21 KO · 38%

9

Losses

2

Draws66 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

Saxton leads 1–0

Horace Bailey and Johnny Saxton have met 1 time; Saxton leads 1–0.

Horace Bailey and Johnny Saxton have met 1 time; Saxton leads 1–0.
Met1949Oct 24Series
Horace BaileyFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Johnny SaxtonFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultPTS1Meeting

The Numbers

Bailey 1 · Saxton 4 of 5 measurable rows
BaileySaxton
Record†
0-155-9-2 (edge)
Win %0–100%
0%
84.8% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 21
0
21 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—38.18%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡not comparable
—38%
Times stopped‡max 5
0 (edge)
5
Title reignsmax 4
0
4 (edge)
Bouts per year§not comparable
—6.9
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 66
1
66

† 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
Horace Bailey: No date of birth
Johnny Saxton: Died aged 78
Stance
Horace Bailey: Not recorded
Johnny Saxton: Orthodox

Horace Bailey left, Johnny Saxton right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Horace Bailey0 wins · from 1 tracked bout

Horace Bailey: no tracked wins in the 1 bout Kill The Body has ingested.

No tracked wins for Bailey yet.

Johnny Saxton55 wins · from 66 tracked bouts

Johnny Saxton: 55 tracked wins — 21 by KO/TKO (38%), 33 on the cards (60%) and 1 by another method or unrecorded (2%). Counted from 66 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

21 by KO/TKO 38%33 on the cards 60%1 by another method or unrecorded 2%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Horace Bailey 1, Johnny Saxton 66 — 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

Horace Bailey last boxed on Oct 24, 1949 — 28,129 days ago. Bailey had lost the most recent, to Johnny Saxton.L

Saxton Oct 1949

Johnny Saxton has lost two straight, after one straight win. Saxton last boxed on Dec 15, 1958.LLWLL

Basilio Feb 1957Miceli Sep 1957Allison Oct 1958Moyer Oct 1958Greene Dec 19586.9 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Horace Bailey and Johnny Saxton ever fought each other?
Yes. Horace Bailey and Johnny Saxton met once on October 24, 1949, and Johnny Saxton won by PTS.
The meeting

LOct 24, 1949 · Saxton · PTS

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Bailey or Saxton?
Horace Bailey is 0-1 across the 1 bout Kill The Body has tracked and Johnny Saxton is 55-9-2. Johnny Saxton has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Bailey0–10%

Saxton55–9–284.8%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Bailey or Saxton?
Horace Bailey has 0 knockout wins and Johnny Saxton has 21. Johnny Saxton has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Bailey0

Saxton2138.2%

The Numbers ↓
Do Bailey and Saxton have any common opponents?
Kill The Body's bout data shows no opponents that both Horace Bailey and Johnny Saxton have faced.
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Bailey and Saxton?
This comparison is drawn from 1 bout tracked for Horace Bailey and 66 bouts tracked for Johnny Saxton. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Bailey1bout

Saxton66bouts

How They Win ↓

Compare someone else

3 suggested matchups

Compare Saxton with…

Someone else?

Release either fighter to put someone new in that slot — the other one stays put.