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Neil Kirkwood vs Nikolai Valuev — record, stats and common opponents compared

Neil Kirkwood

🇷🇺RUSSIA

Nikolai Valuev

Neil Kirkwood (0-4 across 4 tracked bouts) and Nikolai Valuev (50-2) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share no common opponents in Kill The Body's bout data.

Kirkwood

Tracked record

0–4

counted from 4 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Valuev

50

Wins34 KO · 68%

2

Losses

0

Draws53 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

Valuev leads 1–0

Neil Kirkwood and Nikolai Valuev have met 1 time; Valuev leads 1–0.

Neil Kirkwood and Nikolai Valuev have met 1 time; Valuev leads 1–0.
Met1996Oct 8Series
Neil KirkwoodFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Nikolai ValuevFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultTKOR21Meeting

The Numbers

Kirkwood 0 · Valuev 6 of 6 measurable rows
KirkwoodValuev
Record†
0-450-2 (edge)
Win %0–100%
0%
96.2% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 34
0
34 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—68%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡not comparable
—68%
Times stopped‡max 4
4
0 (edge)
Title reignsmax 2
0
2 (edge)
Bouts per year§max 3.3
0.6
3.3 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 53
4
53

† 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
Neil Kirkwood: No date of birth
Nikolai Valuev: 53
Stance
Neil Kirkwood: Not recorded
Nikolai Valuev: Orthodox

Neil Kirkwood left, Nikolai Valuev right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Neil Kirkwood0 wins · from 4 tracked bouts

Neil Kirkwood: no tracked wins in the 4 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

No tracked wins for Kirkwood yet.

Nikolai Valuev50 wins · from 53 tracked bouts

Nikolai Valuev: 50 tracked wins — 34 by KO/TKO (68%), 15 on the cards (30%) and 1 by another method or unrecorded (2%). Counted from 53 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

34 by KO/TKO 68%15 on the cards 30%1 by another method or unrecorded 2%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Neil Kirkwood 4, Nikolai Valuev 53 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

No opponents in common across the bouts Kill The Body has tracked for these two.

Current Form

Oldest left · newest right

Neil Kirkwood last boxed on Dec 8, 2002 — 8,719 days ago. Kirkwood had lost four straight.LLLL

Francis Oct 1995Valuev Oct 1996Sosnowski May 2000Skelton Dec 20020.6 tracked bouts per year

Nikolai Valuev last boxed on Nov 7, 2009 — 6,193 days ago. Valuev had won four in a row before losing a decision to David Haye.WWWWL

Bergeron Sep 2007Liakhovich Feb 2008Ruiz Aug 2008Holyfield Dec 2008Haye Nov 20093.3 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Neil Kirkwood and Nikolai Valuev ever fought each other?
Yes. Neil Kirkwood and Nikolai Valuev met once on October 8, 1996, and Nikolai Valuev won by TKO in round 2.
The meeting

LOct 8, 1996 · Valuev · TKO R2

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Kirkwood or Valuev?
Neil Kirkwood is 0-4 across the 4 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Nikolai Valuev is 50-2. Nikolai Valuev has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Kirkwood0–40%

Valuev50–296.2%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Kirkwood or Valuev?
Neil Kirkwood has 0 knockout wins and Nikolai Valuev has 34. Nikolai Valuev has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Kirkwood0

Valuev3468%

The Numbers ↓
Do Kirkwood and Valuev have any common opponents?
Kill The Body's bout data shows no opponents that both Neil Kirkwood and Nikolai Valuev have faced.
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Kirkwood and Valuev?
This comparison is drawn from 4 bouts tracked for Neil Kirkwood and 53 bouts tracked for Nikolai Valuev. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Kirkwood4bouts

Valuev53bouts

How They Win ↓

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