Skip to main content
Kill The Body

and the head will die

Tommy Gibbons vs Willie Keeler — record, stats and common opponents compared

🇺🇸HEAVYWEIGHT

Tommy Gibbons

Willie Keeler

Tommy Gibbons (96-5-4) and Willie Keeler (1-1-1 across 3 tracked bouts) 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.

Gibbons

96

Wins48 KO · 50%

5

Losses

4

Draws106 tracked bouts

Keeler

Tracked record

1–1–1

counted from 3 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

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

Tommy Gibbons and Willie Keeler have met 1 time; Gibbons leads 1–0.

Tommy Gibbons and Willie Keeler have met 1 time; Gibbons leads 1–0.
Met1921Jun 7Series
Tommy GibbonsFighter AWWon1–0W–L
Willie KeelerFighter BLLost0–1W–L
ResultKOR21Meeting

The Numbers

Gibbons 5 · Keeler 0 of 5 measurable rows
GibbonsKeeler
Record†
96-5-4 (edge)1-1-1
Win %0–100%
93.3% (edge)
50%
Wins by knockoutmax 48
48 (edge)
0
KO ratenot comparable
50%—
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
50% (edge)
0%
Times stopped‡levelmax 1
1
1
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 7.7
7.7 (edge)
2
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 106
106
3

† 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
Tommy Gibbons: Died aged 69
Willie Keeler: No date of birth
Stance
Tommy Gibbons: Orthodox
Willie Keeler: Not recorded

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

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
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%

Willie Keeler1 win · from 3 tracked bouts

Willie Keeler: 1 tracked win — 1 by another method or unrecorded (100%). Counted from 3 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

1 by another method or unrecorded 100%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Tommy Gibbons 106, Willie Keeler 3 — 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

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

Willie Keeler last boxed on Jul 4, 1921 — 38,464 days ago. Keeler had won once since two bouts without a win.DLW

Chiariglione Jan 1920Gibbons Jun 1921Chiariglione Jul 19212 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Tommy Gibbons and Willie Keeler ever fought each other?
Yes. Tommy Gibbons and Willie Keeler met once on June 7, 1921, and Tommy Gibbons won by KO in round 2.
The meeting

WJun 7, 1921 · Gibbons · KO R2

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Gibbons or Keeler?
Tommy Gibbons is 96-5-4 and Willie Keeler is 1-1-1 across the 3 bouts Kill The Body has tracked. Tommy Gibbons has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Gibbons96–5–493.3%

Keeler1–1–150%

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

Gibbons4850%

Keeler0

The Numbers ↓
Do Gibbons and Keeler have any common opponents?
Kill The Body's bout data shows no opponents that both Tommy Gibbons and Willie Keeler have faced.
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Gibbons and Keeler?
This comparison is drawn from 106 bouts tracked for Tommy Gibbons and 3 bouts tracked for Willie Keeler. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Gibbons106bouts

Keeler3bouts

How They Win ↓

Compare someone else

4 suggested matchups

Compare Gibbons with…

Compare Keeler with…

Someone else?

Release either fighter to put someone new in that slot — the other one stays put.