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Don Warner vs Sonny Banks — record, stats and common opponents compared

Don Warner

🇺🇸UNITED STATES

Sonny Banks

Don Warner (0-4 across 4 tracked bouts) and Sonny Banks (18-7) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 2 common opponents.

Warner

Tracked record

0–4

counted from 4 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Banks

18

Wins14 KO · 78%

7

Losses

0

Draws25 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

Banks leads 1–0

Don Warner and Sonny Banks have met 1 time; Banks leads 1–0.

Don Warner and Sonny Banks have met 1 time; Banks leads 1–0.
Met1964May 18Series
Don WarnerFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Sonny BanksFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultKO1Meeting

The Numbers

Warner 1 · Banks 4 of 5 measurable rows
WarnerBanks
Record†
0-418-7 (edge)
Win %0–100%
0%
72% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 14
0
14 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—77.78%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡not comparable
—78%
Times stopped‡max 5
3 (edge)
5
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 5
1.3
5 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 25
4
25

† 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
Don Warner: No date of birth
Sonny Banks: Died aged 24
Stance
Don Warner: Not recorded
Sonny Banks: Orthodox

Don Warner left, Sonny Banks right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Don Warner0 wins · from 4 tracked bouts

Don Warner: no tracked wins in the 4 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

No tracked wins for Warner yet.

Sonny Banks18 wins · from 25 tracked bouts

Sonny Banks: 18 tracked wins — 14 by KO/TKO (78%) and 4 on the cards (22%). Counted from 25 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

14 by KO/TKO 78%4 on the cards 22%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Don Warner 4, Sonny Banks 25 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

2 shared

2 shared · even on 2

Warner

Opponent

Banks

  • Don Warner

    Loss, KO

    1965

    MartinEven

    Sonny Banks

    Loss, KO 9

    1965

  • Don Warner

    Loss, TKO 4

    1962

    AliEven

    Sonny Banks

    Loss, TKO 4

    1962

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

Don Warner last boxed on Apr 19, 1965 — 22,464 days ago. Warner had lost four straight.LLLL

Ali Feb 1962London May 1963Banks May 1964Martin Apr 19651.3 tracked bouts per year

Sonny Banks has lost two straight, after two straight wins. Banks last boxed on May 10, 1965.LWWLL

Batts Nov 1963Batts Mar 1964Warner May 1964Williams Jul 1964Martin May 19655 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Don Warner and Sonny Banks ever fought each other?
Yes. Don Warner and Sonny Banks met once on May 18, 1964, and Sonny Banks won by KO.
The meeting

LMay 18, 1964 · Banks · KO

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Warner or Banks?
Don Warner is 0-4 across the 4 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Sonny Banks is 18-7. Sonny Banks has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Warner0–40%

Banks18–772%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Warner or Banks?
Don Warner has 0 knockout wins and Sonny Banks has 14. Sonny Banks has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Warner0

Banks1477.8%

The Numbers ↓
Do Warner and Banks have any common opponents?
Don Warner and Sonny Banks share 2 common opponents: Leotis Martin and Muhammad Ali. Neither fighter fared better across the shared opponents overall.
2 shared opponents

Leotis MartinLL

Muhammad AliLL

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Warner and Banks?
This comparison is drawn from 4 bouts tracked for Don Warner and 25 bouts tracked for Sonny Banks. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Warner4bouts

Banks25bouts

How They Win ↓

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