Tommy Burns
73″ reach · +8.93% reach advantage · 89th percentile
47–5–9
Tommy Burns has a reach of 73″ against a height of 67″ — a reach advantage of +8.93%, long for heavyweight boxing and the 89th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Tommy Burns (Canadian boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25
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 2026-07-25. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the
MMA recordtemplate — 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 317 heavyweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
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.
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | L | Joe Beckett | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1918 | W | Bob Bracken | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1914 | W | Battling Brandt | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1913 | D | Arthur Pelkey | Draw | 6 |
| 1912 | W | Bill Rickard | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1910 | W | Bill Lang | Decision | 20 |
| 1908 | L | Jack Johnson | Decision | 14 |
| 1908 | W | Bill Lang | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1908 | W | Bill Squires | KO/TKO | 13 |
| 1908 | W | Jewey Smith | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1908 | W | Jem Roche | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1908 | W | Jack Palmer | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1907 | W | Gunner Moir | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1907 | W | Bill Squires | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1907 | W | Philadelphia Jack O'Brien | Decision | 20 |
| 1906 | D | Philadelphia Jack O'Brien | Decision | 20 |
| 1906 | W | Fireman Jim Flynn | KO/TKO | 15 |
| 1906 | W | James J Walker | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1906 | W | Jim O'Brien | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1906 | W | Marvin Hart | Decision | 20 |
| 1905 | L | Jack Twin Sullivan | Decision | 20 |
| 1905 | W | Dave Barry | KO/TKO | 20 |
| 1905 | D | Hugo Kelly | Decision | 20 |
| 1905 | W | Joe Schildt | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1904 | L | Philadelphia Jack O'Brien | — | 6 |
| 1904 | D | Billy Woods | Decision | 15 |
| 1904 | W | Cyclone Kelly | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1904 | W | Hans Erickson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1904 | W | Joe Wardinski | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1904 | W | Tony Caponi | Decision | 6 |
| 1904 | D | Mike Schreck | Decision | 6 |
| 1904 | W | George Shrosbree | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1904 | W | Ben O'Grady | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1903 | W | Tom McCune | Decision | 10 |
| 1903 | W | Jack O'Donnell | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1903 | W | Jack Butler | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1903 | D | Billy Moore | Draw | 10 |
| 1903 | W | Jack Hammond | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1903 | W | Jim Duggan | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1903 | W | Earl Thompson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1903 | W | Dick Smith | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1903 | W | Reddy Phillips | DQ | 2 |
| 1903 | W | Jim O'Brien | Decision | 10 |
| 1903 | L | Mike Schreck | Decision | 10 |
| 1902 | W | Tom McCune | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1902 | W | Reddy Phillips | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1902 | W | Jack O'Donnell | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1902 | W | Dick Smith | Decision | 10 |
| 1902 | W | Ed Sholtreau | Decision | 10 |
| 1902 | W | Billy Walsh | — | 6 |
| 1902 | W | Archie Steele | — | 2 |
| 1902 | W | Harry Peppers | — | 2 |
| 1902 | W | Fred Thornton | — | 5 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
8 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Tommy Burns (Canadian boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+8.93%
73″ reach on a 67″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 12th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 67″ (170.2 cm) | 1st pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing competed at 3: welterweight, middleweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1900s — 47 of 53 dated bouts | |
| Country | Canada |
Record
Boxing record
47–5
61 bouts on record
Finish rate
74%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 64th percentile
The career, bout by bout
54 recorded bouts from 1902 to 1920. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
1902–1920
Longest unbeaten run
18
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1903
11 bouts
Recorded bouts
54
53 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Julio César La Cruz+8.85% 78″ reach · 89th pct
- Damian Knyba+8.82% 86″ reach · 88th pct
- Henry Akinwande+8.82% 86″ reach · 88th pct
- Michael Grant+8.82% 86″ reach · 88th pct
- Carlos Takam+9.09% 80.3″ reach · 89th pct
- Lennox Lewis+9.1% 84″ reach · 90th pct
- Sirimongkol Singmanasak+9.13% 72″ reach · 90th pct
- Mike Williams+9.22% 83″ reach · 90th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Tommy Burns's record?
- 47–5–9 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 54 bouts individually.
- How many of Tommy Burns's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 54. The source lists them without a date this site can read, so they are printed with no year, sorted last, and drawn past the double rule in the record line rather than placed in the chronology. No year has been inferred for any of them.
- 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.
Where this record leads
The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Burns sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS Jack Johnson vs Tommy BurnsA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1908 Longest unbeaten runsTommy Burns went 18 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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