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Bill Lang vs Bob Fitzsimmons — record, stats and common opponents compared

🇦🇺AUSTRALIA

Bill Lang

🇺🇸UNITED STATES

Bob Fitzsimmons

Bill Lang (1-5 across 6 tracked bouts) and Bob Fitzsimmons (69-12-14) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 1 common opponent.

Lang

Tracked record

1–5

counted from 6 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Fitzsimmons

69

Wins57 KO · 83%

12

Losses

14

Draws96 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

Lang leads 1–0

Bill Lang and Bob Fitzsimmons have met 1 time; Lang leads 1–0.

Bill Lang and Bob Fitzsimmons have met 1 time; Lang leads 1–0.
Met1909Dec 27Series
Bill LangFighter AWWon1–0W–L
Bob FitzsimmonsFighter BLLost0–1W–L
ResultKOR121Meeting

The Numbers

Lang 2 · Fitzsimmons 4 of 6 measurable rows
LangFitzsimmons
Record†
1-569-12-14 (edge)
Win %0–100%
16.7%
80% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 57
1
57 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—82.61%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
100% (edge)
84%
Times stopped‡max 7
3 (edge)
7
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 3.3
1.3
3.3 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 96
6
96

† 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

Height+1″
Bill Lang: 6′1″ (edge)
Bob Fitzsimmons: 6′0″
Reach+1″
Bill Lang: 73″ (edge)
Bob Fitzsimmons: 72″
Agenot comparable
Bill Lang: Died aged 70
Bob Fitzsimmons: Died aged 54
Stance
Bill Lang: Orthodox
Bob Fitzsimmons: Orthodox

Bill Lang left, Bob Fitzsimmons right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Bill Lang1 win · from 6 tracked bouts

Bill Lang: 1 tracked win — 1 by KO/TKO (100%). Counted from 6 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

1 by KO/TKO 100%

Bob Fitzsimmons69 wins · from 96 tracked bouts

Bob Fitzsimmons: 69 tracked wins — 58 by KO/TKO (84%), 3 on the cards (4%) and 8 by another method or unrecorded (12%). Counted from 96 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

58 by KO/TKO 84%3 on the cards 4%8 by another method or unrecorded 12%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Bill Lang 6, Bob Fitzsimmons 96 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

1 shared

1 shared · even on 1

Lang

Opponent

Fitzsimmons

  • Bill Lang

    Loss, TKO 9

    1907

    JohnsonEven

    Bob Fitzsimmons

    Loss, KO 2

    1907

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

Bill Lang has lost three straight, after one straight win. Lang last boxed on Oct 28, 1911.LWLLL

Burns Sep 1908Fitzsimmons Dec 1909Burns Apr 1910Langford Feb 1911McVey Oct 19111.3 tracked bouts per year

Bob Fitzsimmons has won two straight since losses to Jack Johnson and Bill Lang. Fitzsimmons last boxed on Feb 20, 1914.WLLWW

Haghey Jan 1906Johnson Jul 1907Lang Dec 1909Sweeney Jan 1914Bellew Feb 19143.3 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Bill Lang and Bob Fitzsimmons ever fought each other?
Yes. Bill Lang and Bob Fitzsimmons met once on December 27, 1909, and Bill Lang won by KO in round 12.
The meeting

WDec 27, 1909 · Lang · KO R12

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Lang or Fitzsimmons?
Bill Lang is 1-5 across the 6 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Bob Fitzsimmons is 69-12-14. Bob Fitzsimmons has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Lang1–516.7%

Fitzsimmons69–12–1480%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Lang or Fitzsimmons?
Bill Lang has 1 knockout win and Bob Fitzsimmons has 57. Bob Fitzsimmons has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Lang1

Fitzsimmons5782.6%

The Numbers ↓
Do Lang and Fitzsimmons have any common opponents?
Bill Lang and Bob Fitzsimmons share 1 common opponent: Jack Johnson. Neither fighter fared better across the shared opponents overall.
Shared opponent

Jack JohnsonLL

Common Opponents ↓
Who is bigger, Lang or Fitzsimmons?
Bill Lang is the taller fighter at 185 cm, 3 cm above the other. Bill Lang also has the longer reach, by 3 cm.
Height · reach

Lang185 cm185 cm reach

Fitzsimmons182 cm182 cm reach

Tale of the Tape ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Lang and Fitzsimmons?
This comparison is drawn from 6 bouts tracked for Bill Lang and 96 bouts tracked for Bob Fitzsimmons. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Lang6bouts

Fitzsimmons96bouts

How They Win ↓

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