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Lionel Butler vs Sammy Speech — record, stats and common opponents compared

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Lionel Butler

Sammy Speech

Lionel Butler (32-17-1) and Sammy Speech (1-1 across 2 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.

Butler

32

Wins25 KO · 78%

17

Losses

1

Draw51 tracked bouts

Speech

Tracked record

1–1

counted from 2 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

Speech leads 1–0

Lionel Butler and Sammy Speech have met 1 time; Speech leads 1–0.

Lionel Butler and Sammy Speech have met 1 time; Speech leads 1–0.
Met1990Feb 16Series
Lionel ButlerFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Sammy SpeechFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultUD1Meeting

The Numbers

Butler 5 · Speech 1 of 6 measurable rows
ButlerSpeech
Record†
32-17-1 (edge)1-1
Win %0–100%
65% (edge)
50%
Wins by knockoutmax 25
25 (edge)
0
KO ratenot comparable
78.13%—
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
78% (edge)
0%
Times stopped‡max 8
8
1 (edge)
Title reignsmax 1
1 (edge)
0
Bouts per year§not comparable
2.4—
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 51
51
2

† 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
Lionel Butler: 5′11″
Sammy Speech: No height on file
Reachnot held
Lionel Butler: 72″
Sammy Speech: No reach on file
Agenot held
Lionel Butler: 59
Sammy Speech: No date of birth
Stance
Lionel Butler: Orthodox
Sammy Speech: Not recorded

Lionel Butler left, Sammy Speech right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Lionel Butler32 wins · from 51 tracked bouts

Lionel Butler: 32 tracked wins — 25 by KO/TKO (78%), 6 on the cards (19%) and 1 by another method or unrecorded (3%). Counted from 51 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

25 by KO/TKO 78%6 on the cards 19%1 by another method or unrecorded 3%

Sammy Speech1 win · from 2 tracked bouts

Sammy Speech: 1 tracked win — 1 on the cards (100%). Counted from 2 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 — Lionel Butler 51, Sammy Speech 2 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

1 shared

1 shared · even on 1

Butler

Opponent

Speech

  • Lionel Butler

    Loss, PTS

    1991

    FordEven

    Sammy Speech

    Loss, KO

    1990

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

Lionel Butler last boxed on Jun 12, 2010 — 5,976 days ago. Butler had lost two straight, after one straight win.WLWLL

Ward Aug 2003Purlette Sep 2003Kassi Sep 2009Fedosov Jan 2010Wills Jun 20102.4 tracked bouts per year

Sammy Speech last boxed on Feb 22, 1990 — 13,391 days ago. Speech had won one in a row before losing by stoppage to Kevin Ford.WL

Butler Feb 1990Ford Feb 1990

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Lionel Butler and Sammy Speech ever fought each other?
Yes. Lionel Butler and Sammy Speech met once on February 16, 1990, and Sammy Speech won by UD.
The meeting

LFeb 16, 1990 · Speech · UD

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Butler or Speech?
Lionel Butler is 32-17-1 and Sammy Speech is 1-1 across the 2 bouts Kill The Body has tracked. Lionel Butler has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Butler32–17–165%

Speech1–150%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Butler or Speech?
Lionel Butler has 25 knockout wins and Sammy Speech has 0. Lionel Butler has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Butler2578.1%

Speech0

The Numbers ↓
Do Butler and Speech have any common opponents?
Lionel Butler and Sammy Speech share 1 common opponent: Kevin Ford. Neither fighter fared better across the shared opponents overall.
Shared opponent

Kevin FordLL

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Butler and Speech?
This comparison is drawn from 51 bouts tracked for Lionel Butler and 2 bouts tracked for Sammy Speech. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Butler51bouts

Speech2bouts

How They Win ↓

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