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Kid Gavilán vs Tommy Bell — record, stats and common opponents compared

🇨🇺CUBA

Kid Gavilán

🇺🇸UNITED STATES

Tommy Bell

Kid Gavilán (108-30-5) and Tommy Bell (1-8 across 9 tracked bouts) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 1 common opponent.

Gavilán

108

Wins28 KO · 26%

30

Losses

5

Draws143 tracked bouts

Bell

Tracked record

1–8

counted from 9 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

Gavilán leads 1–0

Kid Gavilán and Tommy Bell have met 1 time; Gavilán leads 1–0.

Kid Gavilán and Tommy Bell have met 1 time; Gavilán leads 1–0.
Met1948Apr 26Series
Kid GavilánFighter AWWon1–0W–L
Tommy BellFighter BLLost0–1W–L
ResultSD1Meeting

The Numbers

Gavilán 5 · Bell 0 of 5 measurable rows
GavilánBell
Record†
108-30-5 (edge)1-8
Win %0–100%
77.3% (edge)
11.1%
Wins by knockoutmax 28
28 (edge)
0
KO ratenot comparable
25.93%—
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
27% (edge)
0%
Times stopped‡levelmax 0
0
0
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 9.5
9.5 (edge)
0.3
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 143
143
9

† 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 comparable
Kid Gavilán: Died aged 77
Tommy Bell: Died aged 71
Stance
Kid Gavilán: Orthodox
Tommy Bell: Not recorded

Kid Gavilán left, Tommy Bell right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Kid Gavilán108 wins · from 143 tracked bouts

Kid Gavilán: 108 tracked wins — 29 by KO/TKO (27%) and 79 on the cards (73%). Counted from 143 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

29 by KO/TKO 27%79 on the cards 73%

Tommy Bell1 win · from 9 tracked bouts

Tommy Bell: 1 tracked win — 1 on the cards (100%). Counted from 9 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

1 on the cards 100%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Kid Gavilán 143, Tommy Bell 9 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

1 shared

1 shared · even on 1

Gavilán

Opponent

Bell

  • Kid Gavilán

    0–2 against

    Loss, UD

    1949

    Loss, UD

    1948

    RobinsonEven

    Tommy Bell

    0–2 against

    Loss, UD

    1946

    Loss, UD

    1945

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

Kid Gavilán had won one in a row before losing a decision to Yama Bahama. Gavilán last boxed on Jun 18, 1958.LWLWL

Ortega Oct 1957Byars Nov 1957Jones Feb 1958Jones Apr 1958Bahama Jun 19589.5 tracked bouts per year

Tommy Bell has lost eight straight. Bell last boxed on Mar 13, 1972.LLLLL

Robinson Dec 1946LaMotta Mar 1947Gavilán Apr 1948Scott Nov 1968Finnegan Mar 19720.3 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Kid Gavilán and Tommy Bell ever fought each other?
Yes. Kid Gavilán and Tommy Bell met once on April 26, 1948, and Kid Gavilán won by SD.
The meeting

WApr 26, 1948 · Gavilán · SD

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Gavilán or Bell?
Kid Gavilán is 108-30-5 and Tommy Bell is 1-8 across the 9 bouts Kill The Body has tracked. Kid Gavilán has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Gavilán108–30–577.3%

Bell1–811.1%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Gavilán or Bell?
Kid Gavilán has 28 knockout wins and Tommy Bell has 0. Kid Gavilán has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Gavilán2825.9%

Bell0

The Numbers ↓
Do Gavilán and Bell have any common opponents?
Kid Gavilán and Tommy Bell share 1 common opponent: Sugar Ray Robinson. Neither fighter fared better across the shared opponents overall.
Shared opponent

Sugar Ray RobinsonLL

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Gavilán and Bell?
This comparison is drawn from 143 bouts tracked for Kid Gavilán and 9 bouts tracked for Tommy Bell. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Gavilán143bouts

Bell9bouts

How They Win ↓

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