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Johnny Saxton vs Lester Felton — record, stats and common opponents compared

🇺🇸WELTERWEIGHT

Johnny Saxton

Lester Felton

Johnny Saxton (55-9-2) and Lester Felton (2-6 across 8 tracked bouts) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 3 common opponents.

Saxton

55

Wins21 KO · 38%

9

Losses

2

Draws66 tracked bouts

Felton

Tracked record

2–6

counted from 8 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

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

Johnny Saxton and Lester Felton have met 1 time; Saxton leads 1–0.

Johnny Saxton and Lester Felton have met 1 time; Saxton leads 1–0.
Met1952Mar 14Series
Johnny SaxtonFighter AWWon1–0W–L
Lester FeltonFighter BLLost0–1W–L
ResultDQR61Meeting

The Numbers

Saxton 6 · Felton 1 of 7 measurable rows
SaxtonFelton
Record†
55-9-2 (edge)2-6
Win %0–100%
84.8% (edge)
25%
Wins by knockoutmax 21
21 (edge)
0
KO ratenot comparable
38.18%—
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
38% (edge)
0%
Times stopped‡max 5
5
2 (edge)
Title reignsmax 4
4 (edge)
0
Bouts per year§max 6.9
6.9 (edge)
1
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 66
66
8

† 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
Johnny Saxton: Died aged 78
Lester Felton: No date of birth
Stance
Johnny Saxton: Orthodox
Lester Felton: Not recorded

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

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
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%

Lester Felton2 wins · from 8 tracked bouts

Lester Felton: 2 tracked wins — 2 on the cards (100%). Counted from 8 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

2 on the cards 100%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Johnny Saxton 66, Lester Felton 8 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

3 shared

3 shared · Saxton better on 1 · Felton better on 1 · even on 1

Saxton

Opponent

Felton

  • Johnny Saxton

    1–2 against

    Loss, TKO 2

    1957

    Loss, TKO 9

    1956

    Win, UD

    1956

    BasilioFelton better

    Lester Felton

    Win, UD

    1951

  • Johnny Saxton

    Win, UD

    1954

    GavilánEven

    Lester Felton

    Win, SD

    1949

  • Johnny Saxton

    Win, UD

    1954

    BrattonSaxton better

    Lester Felton

    Loss, TKO 3

    1950

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 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

Lester Felton last boxed on Jun 6, 1957 — 25,342 days ago. Felton had lost three straight, after one straight win.LWLLL

Brown Apr 1951Basilio May 1951Saxton Mar 1952Benton Jan 1953Castellani Jun 19571 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Johnny Saxton and Lester Felton ever fought each other?
Yes. Johnny Saxton and Lester Felton met once on March 14, 1952, and Johnny Saxton won by DQ in round 6.
The meeting

WMar 14, 1952 · Saxton · DQ R6

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Saxton or Felton?
Johnny Saxton is 55-9-2 and Lester Felton is 2-6 across the 8 bouts Kill The Body has tracked. Johnny Saxton has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Saxton55–9–284.8%

Felton2–625%

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

Saxton2138.2%

Felton0

The Numbers ↓
Do Saxton and Felton have any common opponents?
Johnny Saxton and Lester Felton share 3 common opponents: Carmen Basilio, Kid Gavilán and Johnny Bratton. Neither fighter fared better across the shared opponents overall.
3 shared opponents

Carmen Basilio1–2W

Kid GavilánWW

Johnny BrattonWL

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Saxton and Felton?
This comparison is drawn from 66 bouts tracked for Johnny Saxton and 8 bouts tracked for Lester Felton. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Saxton66bouts

Felton8bouts

How They Win ↓

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