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Bill Lang vs Tommy Burns — record, stats and common opponents compared

🇦🇺AUSTRALIA

Bill Lang

🇨🇦CANADA

Tommy Burns

Bill Lang (1-5 across 6 tracked bouts) and Tommy Burns (47-5-9) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met 2 times. They share 1 common opponent.

Lang

Tracked record

1–5

counted from 6 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Burns

47

Wins35 KO · 74%

5

Losses

9

Draws64 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

Burns leads 2–0

Bill Lang and Tommy Burns have met 2 times; Burns leads 2–0.

Bill Lang and Tommy Burns have met 2 times; Burns leads 2–0.
Met1908Sep 31910Apr 11Series
Bill LangFighter ALLostLLost0–2W–L
Tommy BurnsFighter BWWonWWon2–0W–L
ResultKOR6PTS2Meetings

The Numbers

Lang 1 · Burns 5 of 6 measurable rows
LangBurns
Record†
1-547-5-9 (edge)
Win %0–100%
16.7%
84.4% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 35
1
35 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—74.47%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
100% (edge)
73%
Times stopped‡max 3
3
2 (edge)
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 3.5
1.3
3.5 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 64
6
64

† 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+6″
Bill Lang: 6′1″ (edge)
Tommy Burns: 5′7″
ReachLevel
Bill Lang: 73″
Tommy Burns: 73″
Agenot comparable
Bill Lang: Died aged 70
Tommy Burns: Died aged 73
Stance
Bill Lang: Orthodox
Tommy Burns: Orthodox

Bill Lang left, Tommy Burns 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%

Tommy Burns48 wins · from 64 tracked bouts

Tommy Burns: 48 tracked wins — 35 by KO/TKO (73%), 11 on the cards (23%) and 2 by another method or unrecorded (4%). Counted from 64 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

35 by KO/TKO 73%11 on the cards 23%2 by another method or unrecorded 4%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Bill Lang 6, Tommy Burns 64 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

1 shared

1 shared · even on 1

Lang

Opponent

Burns

  • Bill Lang

    Loss, TKO 9

    1907

    JohnsonEven

    Tommy Burns

    Loss, TKO 14

    1908

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

Tommy Burns had won two in a row before losing by stoppage to Joe Beckett. Burns last boxed on Jul 16, 1920.WDWWL

Rickard Aug 1912Pelkey Apr 1913Brandt Jan 1914Bracken Sep 1918Beckett Jul 19203.5 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Bill Lang and Tommy Burns ever fought each other?
Yes. Bill Lang and Tommy Burns have met 2 times and Tommy Burns leads the series 2-0.
The 2 meetings

LApr 11, 1910 · Burns · PTS

LSep 3, 1908 · Burns · KO R6

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Lang or Burns?
Bill Lang is 1-5 across the 6 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Tommy Burns is 47-5-9. Tommy Burns has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Lang1–516.7%

Burns47–5–984.4%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Lang or Burns?
Bill Lang has 1 knockout win and Tommy Burns has 35. Tommy Burns has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Lang1

Burns3574.5%

The Numbers ↓
Do Lang and Burns have any common opponents?
Bill Lang and Tommy Burns 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 Burns?
Bill Lang is the taller fighter at 185 cm, 15 cm above the other.
Height · reach

Lang185 cm185 cm reach

Burns170 cm185 cm reach

Tale of the Tape ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Lang and Burns?
This comparison is drawn from 6 bouts tracked for Bill Lang and 64 bouts tracked for Tommy Burns. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Lang6bouts

Burns64bouts

How They Win ↓

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