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.
Leach Cross (7-9 across 16 tracked bouts) and Willie Ritchie (45-14-17) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 6 common opponents.
Leach Cross vs Willie Ritchie — record, stats and common opponents compared
Head to Head
Willie Ritchie leads 1–0- Willie Ritchie wonRitchie vs CrossNov 10, 1913 · NWS
The Numbers
- 7-9
- Record
- 45-14-17 (edge)
- 43.8%
- Win %
- 70.4% (edge)
- 2
- Wins by knockout
- 9 (edge)
- —
- KO rate
- 20%
- 29% (edge)
- Stoppage rate (tracked wins)
- 19%
- 0 (edge)
- Times stopped
- 2
- 0
- Title reigns
- 0
- 2.1
- Bouts per year
- 3.8 (edge)
- 16
- Bouts tracked
- 80
One or both records are tracked, not career-verified.
Counted from bouts Kill The Body has ingested, not a career total.
Counted from bouts Kill The Body has ingested, not a career total.
Across each fighter's tracked career span.
Tale of the Tape
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- Age
- 135
- —
- Stance
- Orthodox
- —
- Nationality
- American
How They Win
Tracked bouts onlyLeach Cross · 7 wins
Willie Ritchie · 47 wins
Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter (16 and 80 respectively), not from a career-complete method table.
Common Opponents
6 sharedLeach Cross
WTKO R6 · Dec 1915WNWS · Jun 1915Willie Ritchie
WNWS · Mar 1914WDQ R16 · Nov 1912WNWS · May 1912
Shared opponents are matched on fighter identity, not on name — two different fighters with the same name never merge into one row.
Current Form
Leach Cross
W1 streak · last fought Dec 17, 1915
Willie Ritchie
W3 streak · last fought Aug 29, 1927
Common Questions
- Have Leach Cross and Willie Ritchie ever fought each other?
- Yes. Leach Cross and Willie Ritchie met once on November 10, 1913, and Willie Ritchie won by NWS.
- Who has the better record, Leach Cross or Willie Ritchie?
- Leach Cross is 7-9 across the 16 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Willie Ritchie is 45-14-17. Willie Ritchie has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
- Who has more knockouts, Leach Cross or Willie Ritchie?
- Leach Cross has 2 knockout wins and Willie Ritchie has 9. Willie Ritchie has more.
- Do Leach Cross and Willie Ritchie have any common opponents?
- Leach Cross and Willie Ritchie share 6 common opponents: Adolph Wolgast, Johnny Dundee and Charley White (and 3 others). Willie Ritchie fared better against 3 of them.
- How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Leach Cross and Willie Ritchie?
- This comparison is drawn from 16 bouts tracked for Leach Cross and 80 bouts tracked for Willie Ritchie. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.