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Tom Roper vs Tommy Gibbons — record, stats and common opponents compared

Tom Roper

🇺🇸HEAVYWEIGHT

Tommy Gibbons

Tom Roper (0-2 across 2 tracked bouts) and Tommy Gibbons (96-5-4) 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.

Roper

Tracked record

0–2

counted from 2 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Gibbons

96

Wins48 KO · 50%

5

Losses

4

Draws106 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

Gibbons leads 1–0

Tom Roper and Tommy Gibbons have met 1 time; Gibbons leads 1–0.

Tom Roper and Tommy Gibbons have met 1 time; Gibbons leads 1–0.
Met1919Apr 28Series
Tom RoperFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Tommy GibbonsFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultNWS1Meeting

The Numbers

Roper 0 · Gibbons 4 of 4 measurable rows
RoperGibbons
Record†
0-296-5-4 (edge)
Win %0–100%
0%
93.3% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 48
0
48 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—50%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡not comparable
—50%
Times stopped‡levelmax 1
1
1
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 7.7
0.3
7.7 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 106
2
106

† 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
Tom Roper: No date of birth
Tommy Gibbons: Died aged 69
Stance
Tom Roper: Not recorded
Tommy Gibbons: Orthodox

Tom Roper left, Tommy Gibbons right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Tom Roper0 wins · from 2 tracked bouts

Tom Roper: no tracked wins in the 2 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

No tracked wins for Roper yet.

Tommy Gibbons96 wins · from 106 tracked bouts

Tommy Gibbons: 96 tracked wins — 48 by KO/TKO (50%), 8 on the cards (8%) and 40 by another method or unrecorded (42%). Counted from 106 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

48 by KO/TKO 50%8 on the cards 8%40 by another method or unrecorded 42%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Tom Roper 2, Tommy Gibbons 106 — 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

Tom Roper last boxed on Jan 25, 1926 — 36,799 days ago. Roper had lost two straight.LL

Gibbons Apr 1919Delaney Jan 19260.3 tracked bouts per year

Tommy Gibbons had won four in a row before losing by stoppage to Gene Tunney. Gibbons last boxed on Jun 5, 1925.WWWWL

Jamieson Oct 1924Norfolk Dec 1924Burke Jan 1925Herman Jan 1925Tunney Jun 19257.7 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Tom Roper and Tommy Gibbons ever fought each other?
Yes. Tom Roper and Tommy Gibbons met once on April 28, 1919, and Tommy Gibbons won by NWS.
The meeting

LApr 28, 1919 · Gibbons · NWS

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Roper or Gibbons?
Tom Roper is 0-2 across the 2 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Tommy Gibbons is 96-5-4. Tommy Gibbons has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Roper0–20%

Gibbons96–5–493.3%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Roper or Gibbons?
Tom Roper has 0 knockout wins and Tommy Gibbons has 48. Tommy Gibbons has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Roper0

Gibbons4850%

The Numbers ↓
Do Roper and Gibbons have any common opponents?
Kill The Body's bout data shows no opponents that both Tom Roper and Tommy Gibbons have faced.
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Roper and Gibbons?
This comparison is drawn from 2 bouts tracked for Tom Roper and 106 bouts tracked for Tommy Gibbons. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Roper2bouts

Gibbons106bouts

How They Win ↓

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