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Johnny Summerlin vs Niño Valdés — record, stats and common opponents compared

Johnny Summerlin

🇨🇺CUBA

Niño Valdés

Johnny Summerlin (1-5 across 6 tracked bouts) and Niño Valdés (48-18-3) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 4 common opponents.

Summerlin

Tracked record

1–5

counted from 6 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Valdés

48

Wins36 KO · 75%

18

Losses

3

Draws70 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

Valdés leads 1–0

Johnny Summerlin and Niño Valdés have met 1 time; Valdés leads 1–0.

Johnny Summerlin and Niño Valdés have met 1 time; Valdés leads 1–0.
Met1958May 24Series
Johnny SummerlinFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Niño ValdésFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultKOR51Meeting

The Numbers

Summerlin 2 · Valdés 4 of 6 measurable rows
SummerlinValdés
Record†
1-548-18-3 (edge)
Win %0–100%
16.7%
71.7% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 36
0
36 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—75%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
100% (edge)
75%
Times stopped‡max 5
1 (edge)
5
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 3.9
1.5
3.9 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 70
6
70

† 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
Johnny Summerlin: No height on file
Niño Valdés: 6′3″
Reachnot held
Johnny Summerlin: No reach on file
Niño Valdés: 78″
Agenot held
Johnny Summerlin: No date of birth
Niño Valdés: Died aged 76
Stance
Johnny Summerlin: Not recorded
Niño Valdés: Orthodox

Johnny Summerlin left, Niño Valdés 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 Summerlin1 win · from 6 tracked bouts

Johnny Summerlin: 1 tracked win — 1 by KO/TKO (100%). Counted from 6 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

1 by KO/TKO 100%

Niño Valdés48 wins · from 70 tracked bouts

Niño Valdés: 48 tracked wins — 36 by KO/TKO (75%) and 12 on the cards (25%). Counted from 70 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

36 by KO/TKO 75%12 on the cards 25%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Johnny Summerlin 6, Niño Valdés 70 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

4 shared

4 shared · Summerlin better on 2 · Valdés better on 1 · even on 1

Summerlin

Opponent

Valdés

  • Johnny Summerlin

    0–2 against

    Loss, SD

    1954

    Loss, UD

    1954

    ListonValdés better

    Niño Valdés

    Loss, KO 3

    1959

  • Johnny Summerlin

    Loss, UD

    1956

    MachenSummerlin better

    Niño Valdés

    0–2 against

    Loss, KO 8

    1956

    Loss, UD

    1956

  • Johnny Summerlin

    Win, RTD

    1955

    FolleySummerlin better

    Niño Valdés

    Loss, UD

    1956

  • Johnny Summerlin

    Loss, UD

    1956

    SatterfieldEven

    Niño Valdés

    Loss, UD

    1955

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 Summerlin last boxed on May 24, 1958 — 24,988 days ago. Summerlin had lost three straight, after one straight win.LWLLL

Liston Aug 1954Folley Jun 1955Satterfield Jun 1956Machen Dec 1956Valdés May 19581.5 tracked bouts per year

Niño Valdés has won once since losses to Alonzo Johnson and Sonny Liston. Valdés last boxed on Dec 1, 1959.LWLLW

Powell Mar 1959Hodge Apr 1959Johnson May 1959Liston Aug 1959London Dec 19593.9 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Johnny Summerlin and Niño Valdés ever fought each other?
Yes. Johnny Summerlin and Niño Valdés met once on May 24, 1958, and Niño Valdés won by KO in round 5.
The meeting

LMay 24, 1958 · Valdés · KO R5

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Summerlin or Valdés?
Johnny Summerlin is 1-5 across the 6 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Niño Valdés is 48-18-3. Niño Valdés has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Summerlin1–516.7%

Valdés48–18–371.7%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Summerlin or Valdés?
Johnny Summerlin has 0 knockout wins and Niño Valdés has 36. Niño Valdés has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Summerlin0

Valdés3675%

The Numbers ↓
Do Summerlin and Valdés have any common opponents?
Johnny Summerlin and Niño Valdés share 4 common opponents: Sonny Liston, Eddie Machen and Zora Folley (and 1 other). Johnny Summerlin fared better against 2 of them.
4 shared opponents

Sonny ListonLL

Eddie MachenLL

Zora FolleyWL

Bob SatterfieldLL

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Summerlin and Valdés?
This comparison is drawn from 6 bouts tracked for Johnny Summerlin and 70 bouts tracked for Niño Valdés. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Summerlin6bouts

Valdés70bouts

How They Win ↓

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