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.
Happy Smith (0-3 across 3 tracked bouts) and Joe Burman (36-3-6) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 1 common opponent.
Happy Smith vs Joe Burman — record, stats and common opponents compared
Head to Head
Joe Burman leads 1–0- Joe Burman wonBurman vs SmithJan 6, 1917 · NWS
The Numbers
- 0-3
- Record
- 36-3-6 (edge)
- 0%
- Win %
- 86.7% (edge)
- 0
- Wins by knockout
- 21 (edge)
- —
- KO rate
- 58.33%
- —
- Stoppage rate (tracked wins)
- 23%
- 1
- Times stopped
- 0 (edge)
- 0
- Title reigns
- 0
- 0.8
- Bouts per year
- 15.5 (edge)
- 3
- Bouts tracked
- 129
One or both records are tracked, not career-verified.
Counted from bouts Kill The Body has ingested, not a career total.
Counted from bouts Kill The Body has ingested, not a career total.
Across each fighter's tracked career span.
Tale of the Tape
- —
- Height
- 5′4″ (163 cm)
- —
- Age
- 127
- —
- Stance
- Orthodox
- —
- Nationality
- American
How They Win
Tracked bouts onlyHappy Smith · 0 wins
No tracked wins yet.
Joe Burman · 91 wins
KO/TKO
21
Decision
14
Other
56
Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter (3 and 129 respectively), not from a career-complete method table.
Common Opponents
1 sharedHappy Smith
LNWS · Sep 1916Joe Burman
WNWS · Mar 1923WNWS · Jun 1921LNWS · Mar 1921LNWS · Oct 1919DNWS · Sep 1919
Shared opponents are matched on fighter identity, not on name — two different fighters with the same name never merge into one row.
Current Form
Happy Smith
LLL
L3 streak · last fought Mar 26, 1920
Joe Burman
DLWLL
No active streak · last fought Mar 25, 1924
Common Questions
- Have Happy Smith and Joe Burman ever fought each other?
- Yes. Happy Smith and Joe Burman met once on January 6, 1917, and Joe Burman won by NWS.
- Who has the better record, Happy Smith or Joe Burman?
- Happy Smith is 0-3 across the 3 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Joe Burman is 36-3-6. Joe Burman has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
- Who has more knockouts, Happy Smith or Joe Burman?
- Happy Smith has 0 knockout wins and Joe Burman has 21. Joe Burman has more.
- Do Happy Smith and Joe Burman have any common opponents?
- Happy Smith and Joe Burman share 1 common opponent: Joe Lynch. Happy Smith fared better against 1 of them.
- How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Happy Smith and Joe Burman?
- This comparison is drawn from 3 bouts tracked for Happy Smith and 129 bouts tracked for Joe Burman. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.