What is Ricky Burns's record?

45–8–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 54 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.

Ricky Burns — record, reach and career in context

Boxing record

45–8–1

Ricky Burns has a reach of 70″ against a height of 69″ — a reach advantage of +1.43%, short for welterweight boxing and the 30th percentile of the 130 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2001–2023

SOURCE·Ricky Burns — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-14

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 2026-07-14. 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 130 welterweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

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
2023	W	Willie Limond	KO/TKO	8
2021	W	Emiliano Dominguez	Decision	10
2019	L	Lee Selby	—	12
2018	W	Scott Cardle	KO/TKO	3
2018	W	Ivan Njegac	KO/TKO	4
2017	L	Anthony Crolla	Decision	12
2017	L	Julius Indongo	Decision	12
2016	W	Kiryl Relikh	Decision	12
2016	W	Michele di Rocco	KO/TKO	8
2015	W	Josh King	—	11
2015	W	Prince Ofotsu	KO/TKO	5
2015	L	Omar Figueroa Jr.	Decision	12
2014	W	Alexandre Lepelley	Decision	8
2014	L	Dejan Zlatičanin	Decision	12
2014	L	Terence Crawford	Decision	12
2013	D	Ray Beltrán	Draw	12
2013	W	Jose Gonzalez	KO/TKO	9
2012	W	Kevin Mitchell	KO/TKO	4
2012	W	Paulus Moses	Decision	12
2011	W	Michael Katsidis	Decision	12
2011	W	Nicky Cook	KO/TKO	1
2011	W	Joseph Laryea	—	7
2010	W	Andreas Evensen	Decision	12
2010	W	Román Martínez	Decision	12
2010	W	Youssef Al Hamidi	Decision	8
2009	W	Kevin O'Hara	Decision	12
2009	W	Michael Gomez	KO/TKO	7
2008	W	Yakubu Amidu	KO/TKO	7
2008	W	Osumanu Akaba	Decision	12
2008	W	Gheorghe Ghiompirica	Decision	10
2008	W	Billy Smith	Decision	4
2008	W	Silence Saheed	KO/TKO	3
2007	W	Billy Smith	Decision	6
2007	W	Youssef Al Hamidi	Decision	6
2007	W	Ben Odamattey	Decision	8
2007	W	Frederic Bonifai	KO/TKO	5
2007	W	Ernie Smith	Decision	6
2007	L	Carl Johanneson	Decision	12
2006	W	Wladimir Borov	Decision	8
2006	W	Adolphe Avadja	KO/TKO	5
2006	L	Alex Arthur	—	12
2005	W	Alan Temple	Decision	4
2005	W	Haider Ali	Decision	8
2005	W	Buster Dennis	Decision	6
2005	W	Graham Earl	Decision	8
2004	W	Colin Bain	Decision	6
2004	W	Jeff Thomas	Decision	4
2004	W	Daniel Thorpe	Decision	6
2002	W	Nono Junior	Decision	8
2002	W	Neil Murray	KO/TKO	2
2002	W	Ernie Smith	Decision	6
2002	W	Gary Harrison	—	1
2002	W	Peter Allen	Decision	6
2001	W	Woody Greenaway	—	4

19 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Ricky Burns — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-14

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+1.43%

70″ reach on a 69″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 130 welterweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.

-2.9%welterweight boxing reach advantage9.4%

Measurements
Reach	70″ (177.8 cm)	44th pct
Height	69″ (175.3 cm)	62nd pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Welterweight Boxing competed at 4: super featherweight, lightweight, light welterweight, welterweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade	2000s — 29 of 54 dated bouts
Country	United Kingdom

Record

Boxing record

45–8

54 bouts on record

Finish rate

38%

of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight boxing median 54%, 25th percentile

By knockout 38%
By decision 62%

The career, bout by bout

54 recorded bouts from 2001 to 2023. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC2001–2023

Career span

23y

2001–2023

Longest unbeaten run

17

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2007

6 bouts

Recorded bouts

54

54 with a date

Closest in build

welterweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Ricky Burns's record?: 45–8–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 54 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

Welterweight boxing

The 304 welterweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Burns sits inside.

304 FIGHTERS 2000s boxing

29 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

481 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Ricky Burns went 17 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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