What is Ken Buchanan's record?

61–8 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 67 bouts individually.

Does a no contest change a record here?

No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.

What happens when sources disagree about a fight?

This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.

Ken Buchanan — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

61–8

Ken Buchanan finished 44% of 61 wins inside the distance — the 36th percentile for lightweight boxing, where the median is 51%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1965–1982

SOURCE·Ken Buchanan — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

How this record is compiled

Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-07-07. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the MMA record template — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one.
A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
Percentiles rank this fighter among the 258 lightweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

Bout record

Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
1982	L	George Feeney	Decision	8
1981	L	Lance Williams	Decision	8
1981	L	Langton Tinago	Decision	10
1981	L	Steve Early	Decision	12
1980	W	Des Gwilliam	Decision	8
1980	W	Najib Daho	KO/TKO	7
1979	L	Charlie Nash	Decision	12
1979	W	Eloi De Souza	Decision	8
1979	W	Benny Benitez	Decision	8
1975	W	Giancarlo Usai	KO/TKO	12
1975	L	Guts Ishimatsu	Decision	15
1974	W	Leonard Tavarez	KO/TKO	14
1974	W	Winston Noel	KO/TKO	2
1974	W	Antonio Puddu	KO/TKO	6
1974	W	Joe Tetteh	KO/TKO	3
1974	W	Jose Peterson	Decision	10
1973	W	Miguel Araujo	KO/TKO	1
1973	W	Frankie Otero	KO/TKO	6
1973	W	Edwin Malave	KO/TKO	7
1973	W	Hector Matta	Decision	10
1973	W	Jim Watt	Decision	15
1972	W	Chang-Kil Lee	KO/TKO	2
1972	W	Carlos Ortiz	KO/TKO	6
1972	L	Roberto Durán	KO/TKO	13
1972	W	Andries Steyn	KO/TKO	3
1972	W	Al Ford	Decision	10
1971	W	Ismael Laguna	Decision	15
1971	W	Carlos Morocho Hernández	KO/TKO	8
1971	W	Ruben Navarro	Decision	15
1970	W	Donato Paduano	Decision	10
1970	W	Ismael Laguna	Decision	15
1970	W	Brian Hudson	Decision	10
1970	W	Chris Fernandez	Decision	10
1970	W	Leonard Tavarez	Decision	10
1970	L	Miguel Velasquez	Decision	15
1969	W	Vincenzo Pitardi	KO/TKO	2
1969	W	Jerry Graci	KO/TKO	1
1969	W	Jose Luis Tocida	Decision	10
1969	W	Mike Cruz	KO/TKO	4
1969	W	Frankie Narvaez	Decision	10
1968	W	Ameur Lamine	KO/TKO	3
1968	W	Angel Robinson Garcia	Decision	10
1968	W	Ivan Whiter	Decision	8
1968	W	Leonard Tavarez	Decision	8
1968	W	Maurice Cullen	KO/TKO	11
1967	W	Jim McCormack	Decision	12
1967	W	Al Rocca	KO/TKO	7
1967	W	Rene Roque	Decision	8
1967	W	Winston Laud	Decision	8
1967	W	Franco Brondi	KO/TKO	3
1967	W	Tommy Garrison	Decision	10
1967	W	John McMillan	Decision	10
1966	W	Phil Lundgren	Decision	10
1966	W	Al Keen	Decision	8
1966	W	Antonio Paiva	Decision	10
1966	W	Mickey Laud	Decision	8
1966	W	Ivan Whiter	Decision	8
1966	W	Brian Smyth	KO/TKO	1
1966	W	Junior Cassidy	Decision	8
1966	W	Chris Elliott	Decision	8

Showing 60 of 67 recorded bouts, most recent first.

10 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Ken Buchanan — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07

What is on record

Measurements
Reach	not recorded
Height	not recorded
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Lightweight Boxing
Most active decade	1960s — 32 of 67 dated bouts
Country	United Kingdom

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Ken Buchanan, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

winlossdraw / NC1965–1982

Record

Boxing record

61–8

69 bouts on record

Finish rate

44%

of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight boxing median 51%, 36th percentile

By knockout 44%
By decision 56%

The career, bout by bout

67 recorded bouts from 1965 to 1982. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

18y

1965–1982

Longest unbeaten run

37

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1966

10 bouts

Recorded bouts

67

67 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Ken Buchanan's record?: 61–8 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 67 bouts individually.
Does a no contest change a record here?: No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
What happens when sources disagree about a fight?: This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.

Cross-references

Lightweight boxing

The 270 lightweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Buchanan sits inside.

270 FIGHTERS 1960s boxing

32 of these bouts fall in the 1960s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

72 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Ken Buchanan went 37 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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