Super Featherweight Boxing

Sandy Saddler vs Willie Pep

A fight that actually happened — and everything both records say about it.

Meetings on record

Sandy Saddler and Willie Pep met 4 times (1948, 1949, 1950, 1951). Sandy Saddler won in 1951 by ko; Sandy Saddler won in 1950 by ko; Willie Pep won in 1949 by decision; Sandy Saddler won in 1948 by ko.

SOURCE·Sandy Saddler and Willie Pep — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·both records name the other·REVIEWED AUG 2026

How this head-to-head is established

This pairing exists only because at least one of the two articles' own results tables names the other fighter. No matchup on this site is speculative and none is a hypothetical.
Every figure in the comparison below comes from that fighter's own page and carries the same source line. A dash means the source states nothing, not that the value is zero.
Common opponents are found by matching linked bout lists, which is only possible because every fight list here is linked to every other. A shared opponent is not a transitive result and this page does not treat it as one.
Nothing on this page predicts an outcome. It is a comparison of what is on record.

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Side by side

What both records stateAUG 2026
Sandy Saddler		Willie Pep
70″ (177.8 cm)	Reach	68″ (172.7 cm)
68″ (172.7 cm)	Height	65″ (165.1 cm)
+2.95%	Reach advantage	+4.6%
145–16	Record	229–11
72%	Finish rate	28%
31	Longest unbeaten run	55
155	Recorded bouts	222
Orthodox	Stance	Orthodox

A comparison of what is on record. Nothing here predicts a result.

Common opponents

Both fought these 5. This is the comparison the siloed databases cannot make, because it needs every fight list linked to every other.

Opponent	Sandy Saddler	Willie Pep
Harold Dade	W	W
Teddy Davis	W	W
Paddy DeMarco	W	W
Teddy Davis	W	W
Phil Terranova	L	W

Both records, drawn

The same ledger line on each: wins stamped above the rule, losses below, the mark's shape carrying how it ended.

Sandy Saddler

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1948–1956 · EARLIEST 74 NOT SHOWN · 1 UNDATED

winlossdraw / NC1944–1956

Willie Pep

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1950–1966 · EARLIEST 142 NOT SHOWN

winlossdraw / NC1940–1966

Cross-references

Sandy Saddler

The full ledger: 155 bouts, the reach placed in its cohort, and what the record does not say.

145–16 Willie Pep

The same, from the other corner — 222 bouts and the cohort Pep is ranked inside.

229–11 Every confirmed matchup

The other 899 pairings whose own records confirm the fight happened — not a list of fights anyone imagined.

900 BOUTS

Sandy Saddler vs Willie Pep

How this head-to-head is established

Side by side

Common opponents

Both records, drawn

Sandy Saddler

Willie Pep

Where this pairing leads

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