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Don Shortland vs Larry Gains — record, stats and common opponents compared

Don Shortland

🇨🇦CANADA

Larry Gains

Don Shortland (0-2 across 2 tracked bouts) and Larry Gains (118-22-5) 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.

Shortland

Tracked record

0–2

counted from 2 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Gains

118

Wins63 KO · 53%

22

Losses

5

Draws146 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

Gains leads 1–0

Don Shortland and Larry Gains have met 1 time; Gains leads 1–0.

Don Shortland and Larry Gains have met 1 time; Gains leads 1–0.
Met1929Dec 12Series
Don ShortlandFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Larry GainsFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultDQR81Meeting

The Numbers

Shortland 1 · Gains 5 of 6 measurable rows
ShortlandGains
Record†
0-2118-22-5 (edge)
Win %0–100%
0%
83.1% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 63
0
63 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—53.39%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡not comparable
—53%
Times stopped‡max 14
0 (edge)
14
Title reignsmax 1
0
1 (edge)
Bouts per year§max 7.7
1.7
7.7 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 146
2
146

† 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

Heightnot held
Don Shortland: No height on file
Larry Gains: 6′1″
Reachnot held
Don Shortland: No reach on file
Larry Gains: 77″
Agenot held
Don Shortland: No date of birth
Larry Gains: Died aged 82

Don Shortland left, Larry Gains right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored: younger is not better.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Don Shortland0 wins · from 2 tracked bouts

Don Shortland: no tracked wins in the 2 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

No tracked wins for Shortland yet.

Larry Gains118 wins · from 146 tracked bouts

Larry Gains: 118 tracked wins — 63 by KO/TKO (53%), 49 on the cards (42%) and 6 by another method or unrecorded (5%). Counted from 146 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

63 by KO/TKO 53%49 on the cards 42%6 by another method or unrecorded 5%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Don Shortland 2, Larry Gains 146 — 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

Don Shortland last boxed on Feb 9, 1931 — 34,955 days ago. Shortland had lost two straight.LL

Gains Dec 1929Daniels Feb 19311.7 tracked bouts per year

Larry Gains has lost two straight, after one straight win. Gains last boxed on Jun 6, 1942.WLWLL

James Feb 1940London Jan 1941Elemett Feb 1941London May 1941London Jun 19427.7 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Don Shortland and Larry Gains ever fought each other?
Yes. Don Shortland and Larry Gains met once on December 12, 1929, and Larry Gains won by DQ in round 8.
The meeting

LDec 12, 1929 · Gains · DQ R8

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Shortland or Gains?
Don Shortland is 0-2 across the 2 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Larry Gains is 118-22-5. Larry Gains has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Shortland0–20%

Gains118–22–583.1%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Shortland or Gains?
Don Shortland has 0 knockout wins and Larry Gains has 63. Larry Gains has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Shortland0

Gains6353.4%

The Numbers ↓
Do Shortland and Gains have any common opponents?
Kill The Body's bout data shows no opponents that both Don Shortland and Larry Gains have faced.
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Shortland and Gains?
This comparison is drawn from 2 bouts tracked for Don Shortland and 146 bouts tracked for Larry Gains. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Shortland2bouts

Gains146bouts

How They Win ↓

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