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Johnny Buff vs Pancho Villa — record, stats and common opponents compared

🇺🇸BANTAMWEIGHT

Johnny Buff

Cross-division

🇵🇭FLYWEIGHT

Pancho Villa

Johnny Buff (67-20-9) and Pancho Villa (90-8-4) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 1 common opponent.

Buff

67

Wins14 KO · 21%

20

Losses

9

Draws11 tracked bouts

Villa

90

Wins22 KO · 24%

8

Losses

4

Draws104 tracked bouts

Head to Head

Villa leads 1–0

Johnny Buff and Pancho Villa have met 1 time; Villa leads 1–0.

Johnny Buff and Pancho Villa have met 1 time; Villa leads 1–0.
Met1922Sep 14Series
Johnny BuffFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Pancho VillaFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultTKOR111Meeting

The Numbers

Buff 0 · Villa 8 of 8 measurable rows
BuffVilla
Record
67-20-990-8-4 (edge)
Win %0–100%
74.5%
90.2% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 22
14
22 (edge)
KO rate0–100%
20.9%
24.44% (edge)
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)†0–100%
17%
24% (edge)
Times stopped†max 2
2
0 (edge)
Title reignsmax 2
1
2 (edge)
Bouts per year‡max 16
3.9
16 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 104
11
104

† 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
Johnny Buff: No height on file
Pancho Villa: 5′1″
Agenot comparable
Johnny Buff: Died aged 66
Pancho Villa: Died aged 23
Stance
Johnny Buff: Orthodox
Pancho Villa: Orthodox

Johnny Buff left, Pancho Villa right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

Bantamweight against Flyweight. The two are listed in different weight classes, so the tape measures them as they stand rather than as a matchup.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Johnny Buff6 wins · from 11 tracked bouts

Johnny Buff: 6 tracked wins — 1 by KO/TKO (17%), 3 on the cards (50%) and 2 by another method or unrecorded (33%). Counted from 11 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

1 by KO/TKO 17%3 on the cards 50%2 by another method or unrecorded 33%

Pancho Villa90 wins · from 104 tracked bouts

Pancho Villa: 90 tracked wins — 22 by KO/TKO (24%), 55 on the cards (61%) and 13 by another method or unrecorded (14%). Counted from 104 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

22 by KO/TKO 24%55 on the cards 61%13 by another method or unrecorded 14%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Johnny Buff 11, Pancho Villa 104 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

1 shared

1 shared · Buff better on 1

Buff

Opponent

Villa

  • Johnny Buff

    2–0 against

    Win, TKO 2

    1921

    Win, NWS

    1920

    GoldsteinBuff better

    Pancho Villa

    1–1 against

    Win, UD

    1922

    Loss, NWS

    1922

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

Johnny Buff has lost three straight, after two straight wins. Buff last boxed on Sep 14, 1922.WWLLL

Herman Sep 1921Sharkey Nov 1921Moore Dec 1921Lynch Jul 1922Villa Sep 19223.9 tracked bouts per year

Pancho Villa had won four in a row before losing a decision to Jimmy McLarnin. Villa last boxed on Jul 4, 1925.WWWWL

Murray Jul 1924Carlin Aug 1924Pilapil Mar 1925Sencio May 1925McLarnin Jul 192516 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Johnny Buff and Pancho Villa ever fought each other?
Yes. Johnny Buff and Pancho Villa met once on September 14, 1922, and Pancho Villa won by TKO in round 11.
The meeting

LSep 14, 1922 · Villa · TKO R11

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Buff or Villa?
Johnny Buff is 67-20-9 and Pancho Villa is 90-8-4. Pancho Villa has the higher win percentage.
Records · win %

Buff67–20–974.5%

Villa90–8–490.2%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Buff or Villa?
Johnny Buff has 14 knockout wins and Pancho Villa has 22. Pancho Villa has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Buff1420.9%

Villa2224.4%

The Numbers ↓
Do Buff and Villa have any common opponents?
Johnny Buff and Pancho Villa share 1 common opponent: Abe Goldstein. Johnny Buff fared better against 1 of them.
Shared opponent

Abe GoldsteinW1–1

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Buff and Villa?
This comparison is drawn from 11 bouts tracked for Johnny Buff and 104 bouts tracked for Pancho Villa. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Buff11bouts

Villa104bouts

How They Win ↓

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