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Jack Root vs Mysterious Billy Smith — record, stats and common opponents compared

Jack Root

🇨🇦WELTERWEIGHT

Mysterious Billy Smith

Jack Root (1-0 across 1 tracked bouts) and Mysterious Billy Smith (37-25-27) 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.

Root

Tracked record

1–0

counted from 1 bout Kill The Body has ingested

Smith

37

Wins24 KO · 65%

25

Losses

27

Draws91 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

Root leads 1–0

Jack Root and Mysterious Billy Smith have met 1 time; Root leads 1–0.

Jack Root and Mysterious Billy Smith have met 1 time; Root leads 1–0.
Met1915Dec 29Series
Jack RootFighter AWWon1–0W–L
Mysterious Billy SmithFighter BLLost0–1W–L
ResultTKO1Meeting

The Numbers

Root 4 · Smith 1 of 5 measurable rows
RootSmith
Record†
1-0 (edge)37-25-27
Win %0–100%
100% (edge)
56.7%
Wins by knockoutmax 24
1
24 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—64.86%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
100% (edge)
62%
Times stopped‡max 8
0 (edge)
8
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§not comparable
—3.6
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 91
1
91

† 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
Jack Root: No height on file
Mysterious Billy Smith: 5′9″
Agenot held
Jack Root: No date of birth
Mysterious Billy Smith: Died aged 66

Jack Root left, Mysterious Billy Smith right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored: younger is not better.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Jack Root1 win · from 1 tracked bout

Jack Root: 1 tracked win — 1 by KO/TKO (100%). Counted from 1 bout Kill The Body has ingested.

1 by KO/TKO 100%

Mysterious Billy Smith37 wins · from 91 tracked bouts

Mysterious Billy Smith: 37 tracked wins — 23 by KO/TKO (62%), 9 on the cards (24%) and 5 by another method or unrecorded (14%). Counted from 91 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

23 by KO/TKO 62%9 on the cards 24%5 by another method or unrecorded 14%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Jack Root 1, Mysterious Billy Smith 91 — 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

Jack Root last boxed on Dec 29, 1915 — 40,472 days ago. Root had won once, the most recent against Mysterious Billy Smith.W

Smith Dec 1915

Mysterious Billy Smith has lost two straight, after one straight win. Smith last boxed on Dec 29, 1915.LLWLL

Ryan Mar 1902Walcott May 1903Neill Jun 1910Cameron Jul 1911Root Dec 19153.6 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Jack Root and Mysterious Billy Smith ever fought each other?
Yes. Jack Root and Mysterious Billy Smith met once on December 29, 1915, and Jack Root won by TKO.
The meeting

WDec 29, 1915 · Root · TKO

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Root or Smith?
Jack Root is 1-0 across the 1 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Mysterious Billy Smith is 37-25-27. Jack Root has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Root1–0100%

Smith37–25–2756.7%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Root or Smith?
Jack Root has 1 knockout win and Mysterious Billy Smith has 24. Mysterious Billy Smith has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Root1

Smith2464.9%

The Numbers ↓
Do Root and Smith have any common opponents?
Kill The Body's bout data shows no opponents that both Jack Root and Mysterious Billy Smith have faced.
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Root and Smith?
This comparison is drawn from 1 bout tracked for Jack Root and 91 bouts tracked for Mysterious Billy Smith. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Root1bout

Smith91bouts

How They Win ↓

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