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Marty Marshall vs Willi Besmanoff — record, stats and common opponents compared

🇺🇸UNITED STATES

Marty Marshall

🇩🇪GERMANY

Willi Besmanoff

Marty Marshall (2-5 across 7 tracked bouts) and Willi Besmanoff (51-34-8) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 1 common opponent.

Marshall

Tracked record

2–5

counted from 7 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Besmanoff

51

Wins19 KO · 37%

34

Losses

8

Draws93 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

Besmanoff leads 1–0

Marty Marshall and Willi Besmanoff have met 1 time; Besmanoff leads 1–0.

Marty Marshall and Willi Besmanoff have met 1 time; Besmanoff leads 1–0.
Met1959Aug 1Series
Marty MarshallFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Willi BesmanoffFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultUD1Meeting

The Numbers

Marshall 2 · Besmanoff 4 of 6 measurable rows
MarshallBesmanoff
Record†
2-551-34-8 (edge)
Win %0–100%
28.6%
59.1% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 19
1
19 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—37.25%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
50% (edge)
38%
Times stopped‡max 10
1 (edge)
10
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 6.2
1.4
6.2 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 93
7
93

† 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
Marty Marshall: No height on file
Willi Besmanoff: 5′11″
Agenot comparable
Marty Marshall: Died aged 80
Willi Besmanoff: Died aged 78
Stance
Marty Marshall: Not recorded
Willi Besmanoff: Orthodox

Marty Marshall left, Willi Besmanoff right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Marty Marshall2 wins · from 7 tracked bouts

Marty Marshall: 2 tracked wins — 1 by KO/TKO (50%) and 1 on the cards (50%). Counted from 7 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

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

Willi Besmanoff53 wins · from 93 tracked bouts

Willi Besmanoff: 53 tracked wins — 20 by KO/TKO (38%), 32 on the cards (60%) and 1 by another method or unrecorded (2%). Counted from 93 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

20 by KO/TKO 38%32 on the cards 60%1 by another method or unrecorded 2%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Marty Marshall 7, Willi Besmanoff 93 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

1 shared

1 shared · Besmanoff better on 1

Marshall

Opponent

Besmanoff

  • Marty Marshall

    1–2 against

    Loss, UD

    1956

    Loss, TKO 6

    1955

    Win, SD

    1954

    ListonBesmanoff better

    Willi Besmanoff

    Loss, TKO 7

    1959

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

Marty Marshall has lost five straight. Marshall last boxed on Aug 1, 1959.LLLLL

Johnson Dec 1954Satterfield Mar 1955Liston Apr 1955Liston Mar 1956Besmanoff Aug 19591.4 tracked bouts per year

Willi Besmanoff has lost three straight, after one straight win. Besmanoff last boxed on Aug 1, 1967.LWLLL

Lanum Nov 1966Lanum Dec 1966Chuvalo Apr 1967Chuvalo May 1967Zyglewicz Aug 19676.2 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Marty Marshall and Willi Besmanoff ever fought each other?
Yes. Marty Marshall and Willi Besmanoff met once on August 1, 1959, and Willi Besmanoff won by UD.
The meeting

LAug 1, 1959 · Besmanoff · UD

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Marshall or Besmanoff?
Marty Marshall is 2-5 across the 7 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Willi Besmanoff is 51-34-8. Willi Besmanoff has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Marshall2–528.6%

Besmanoff51–34–859.1%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Marshall or Besmanoff?
Marty Marshall has 1 knockout win and Willi Besmanoff has 19. Willi Besmanoff has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Marshall1

Besmanoff1937.3%

The Numbers ↓
Do Marshall and Besmanoff have any common opponents?
Marty Marshall and Willi Besmanoff share 1 common opponent: Sonny Liston. Willi Besmanoff fared better against 1 of them.
Shared opponent

Sonny Liston1–2L

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Marshall and Besmanoff?
This comparison is drawn from 7 bouts tracked for Marty Marshall and 93 bouts tracked for Willi Besmanoff. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Marshall7bouts

Besmanoff93bouts

How They Win ↓

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