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Johnny Van Heest vs Young Griffo — record, stats and common opponents compared

Johnny Van Heest

🇦🇺FEATHERWEIGHT, LIGHTWEIGHT

Young Griffo

Johnny Van Heest (2-2-2 across 6 tracked bouts) and Young Griffo (118-12-68) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 3 common opponents.

Heest

Tracked record

2–2–2

counted from 6 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Griffo

118

Wins33 KO · 28%

12

Losses

68

Draws198 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

Series level 0–0 with 1 draw

Johnny Van Heest and Young Griffo have met 1 time; Series level 0–0 with 1 draw.

Johnny Van Heest and Young Griffo have met 1 time; Series level 0–0 with 1 draw.
Met1894Jan 23Series
Johnny Van HeestFighter ADDraw0–0–1W–L–D
Young GriffoFighter BDDraw0–0–1W–L–D
ResultPTS1Meeting

The Numbers

Heest 2 · Griffo 4 of 6 measurable rows
HeestGriffo
Record†
2-2-2118-12-68 (edge)
Win %0–100%
50%
76.8% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 33
1
33 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—27.97%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
50% (edge)
28%
Times stopped‡max 4
2 (edge)
4
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 11
0.6
11 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 198
6
198

† 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 Van Heest: No date of birth
Young Griffo: Died aged 56

Johnny Van Heest left, Young Griffo right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored: younger is not better.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Johnny Van Heest2 wins · from 6 tracked bouts

Johnny Van Heest: 2 tracked wins — 1 by KO/TKO (50%) and 1 on the cards (50%). Counted from 6 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

1 by KO/TKO 50%1 on the cards 50%

Young Griffo118 wins · from 198 tracked bouts

Young Griffo: 118 tracked wins — 33 by KO/TKO (28%), 31 on the cards (26%) and 54 by another method or unrecorded (46%). Counted from 198 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

33 by KO/TKO 28%31 on the cards 26%54 by another method or unrecorded 46%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Johnny Van Heest 6, Young Griffo 198 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

3 shared

3 shared · Heest better on 1 · Griffo better on 2

Heest

Opponent

Griffo

  • Johnny Van Heest

    1–1 against

    Loss, KO 4

    1902

    Win, TKO 6

    1899

    MurphyGriffo better

    Young Griffo

    4–0 against

    Win, PTS

    1894

    Win, DQ 22

    1891

    Win, RTD

    1890

    Win, PTS

    1888

  • Johnny Van Heest

    Win, PTS

    1895

    GansHeest better

    Young Griffo

    0–1–2 against

    Loss, TKO 8

    1900

    Draw, PTS

    1897

    Draw, PTS

    1895

  • Johnny Van Heest

    0–1–1 against

    Draw, PTS

    1894

    Loss, KO

    1892

    SmithGriffo better

    Young Griffo

    Draw, PTS

    1894

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 Van Heest last boxed on Aug 3, 1902 — 45,369 days ago. Heest had won two in a row before losing by stoppage to Torpedo Billy Murphy.DDWWL

Griffo Jan 1894Smith Oct 1894Gans Apr 1895Murphy Mar 1899Murphy Aug 19020.6 tracked bouts per year

Young Griffo had won one in a row before losing by stoppage to Tommy White. Griffo last boxed on Feb 10, 1904.LWDWL

Tipman Sep 1902Bain Dec 1902Memsic Dec 1903Judge Jan 1904White Feb 190411 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Johnny Van Heest and Young Griffo ever fought each other?
Yes. Johnny Van Heest and Young Griffo met once on January 23, 1894, and the bout was a draw by PTS.
The meeting

DJan 23, 1894 · Draw · PTS

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Heest or Griffo?
Johnny Van Heest is 2-2-2 across the 6 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Young Griffo is 118-12-68. Young Griffo has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Heest2–2–250%

Griffo118–12–6876.8%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Heest or Griffo?
Johnny Van Heest has 1 knockout win and Young Griffo has 33. Young Griffo has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Heest1

Griffo3328%

The Numbers ↓
Do Heest and Griffo have any common opponents?
Johnny Van Heest and Young Griffo share 3 common opponents: Torpedo Billy Murphy, Joe Gans and Solly Smith. Young Griffo fared better against 2 of them.
3 shared opponents

Torpedo Billy Murphy1–1W

Joe GansW0–1–2

Solly Smith0–1–1D

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Heest and Griffo?
This comparison is drawn from 6 bouts tracked for Johnny Van Heest and 198 bouts tracked for Young Griffo. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Heest6bouts

Griffo198bouts

How They Win ↓

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