Have Artie O'Leary and Johnny Kilbane ever fought each other?

Yes. Artie O'Leary and Johnny Kilbane met once on April 5, 1919, and Johnny Kilbane won by NWS.

Who has the better record, O'Leary or Kilbane?

Artie O'Leary is 0-5 across the 5 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Johnny Kilbane is 110-17-15. Johnny Kilbane has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.

Who has more knockouts, O'Leary or Kilbane?

Artie O'Leary has 0 knockout wins and Johnny Kilbane has 24. Johnny Kilbane has more.

Do O'Leary and Kilbane have any common opponents?

Artie O'Leary and Johnny Kilbane share 1 common opponent: Rocky Kansas. Johnny Kilbane fared better against 1 of them.

How much fight data does Kill The Body have on O'Leary and Kilbane?

This comparison is drawn from 5 bouts tracked for Artie O'Leary and 143 bouts tracked for Johnny Kilbane. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.

Artie O'Leary vs Johnny Kilbane — Records, Stats & Common Opponents

Artie O'Leary

🇺🇸FEATHERWEIGHT

Johnny Kilbane

Artie O'Leary (0-5 across 5 tracked bouts) and Johnny Kilbane (110-17-15) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 1 common opponent.

O'Leary

Tracked record

0–5

counted from 5 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Kilbane

110

Wins24 KO · 22%

Losses

Draws143 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

Kilbane leads 1–0

Artie O'Leary and Johnny Kilbane have met 1 time; Kilbane leads 1–0.
Met	1919Apr 5	Series
Artie O'LearyFighter A	LLost	0–1W–L
Johnny KilbaneFighter B	WWon	1–0W–L
Result	NWSKilbane vs O'Leary	1Meeting

Kilbane vs O'Leary · Apr 5, 1919

The Numbers

O'Leary 0 · Kilbane 4 of 4 measurable rows

O'LearyEdge = longer wingKilbane

Record^†: 0-5110-17-15 (edge)
Win %0–100%: 0%
82.7% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 24: 0
24 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable: —21.82%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)^‡not comparable: —22%
Times stopped^‡levelmax 3: 3
3
Title reignslevelmax 0: 0
0
Bouts per year^§max 9.2: 1.5
9.2 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 143: 5
143

† 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: Artie O'Leary: No date of birth; Johnny Kilbane: Died aged 68

Artie O'Leary left, Johnny Kilbane right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored: younger is not better.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only

Artie O'Leary0 wins · from 5 tracked bouts

No tracked wins for O'Leary yet.

Johnny Kilbane110 wins · from 143 tracked bouts

24 by KO/TKO 22%25 on the cards 23%61 by another method or unrecorded 55%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Artie O'Leary 5, Johnny Kilbane 143 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

1 shared

1 shared · Kilbane better on 11 shared · Johnny Kilbane better on 1

O'LearyArtie O'Leary

Opponent

KilbaneJohnny Kilbane

Artie O'Leary
0–2 against
Loss, NWS
1919Sep 1919
Loss, TKO 5
1918Apr 1918
KansasRocky KansasUnited States 123–27–15 · LightweightKilbane betterJohnny Kilbane better — 1–1 to 0–2
Johnny Kilbane
1–1 against
Loss, NWS
1917Feb 1917
Win, NWS
1915Feb 1915

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

Artie O'Leary last boxed on Sep 17, 1921 — 38,391 days ago. O'Leary had lost five straight.LLLLL

Kansas Apr 1918Kilbane Apr 1919Kansas Sep 1919Kaplan Nov 1920Wolfe Sep 19211.5 tracked bouts per year

Johnny Kilbane had won two in a row before losing by stoppage to Eugène Criqui. Kilbane last boxed on Jun 2, 1923.WLWWL

Jacks May 1920Chaney Jun 1920Root Jul 1920Frush Sep 1920Criqui Jun 19239.2 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them

Have Artie O'Leary and Johnny Kilbane ever fought each other?: Yes. Artie O'Leary and Johnny Kilbane met once on April 5, 1919, and Johnny Kilbane won by NWS.
Who has the better record, O'Leary or Kilbane?: Artie O'Leary is 0-5 across the 5 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Johnny Kilbane is 110-17-15. Johnny Kilbane has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Who has more knockouts, O'Leary or Kilbane?: Artie O'Leary has 0 knockout wins and Johnny Kilbane has 24. Johnny Kilbane has more.
Do O'Leary and Kilbane have any common opponents?: Artie O'Leary and Johnny Kilbane share 1 common opponent: Rocky Kansas. Johnny Kilbane fared better against 1 of them.
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on O'Leary and Kilbane?: This comparison is drawn from 5 bouts tracked for Artie O'Leary and 143 bouts tracked for Johnny Kilbane. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.

Compare someone else

6 suggested matchups

Compare O'Leary with…

Compare Kilbane with…

Someone else?

Release either fighter to put someone new in that slot — the other one stays put.

Artie O'Leary vs Johnny Kilbane — record, stats and common opponents compared

Artie O'Leary

Johnny Kilbane