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Archie Moore vs Charley Burley

A fight that actually happened — and everything both records say about it.

Meetings on record

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Archie Moore and Charley Burley met once (1944). Charley Burley won in 1944 by decision.

SOURCE·Archie Moore and Charley Burley — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·both records name the other·REVIEWED AUG 2026

How this head-to-head is established

  1. This pairing exists only because at least one of the two articles' own results tables names the other fighter. No matchup on this site is speculative and none is a hypothetical.
  2. Every figure in the comparison below comes from that fighter's own page and carries the same source line. A dash means the source states nothing, not that the value is zero.
  3. Common opponents are found by matching linked bout lists, which is only possible because every fight list here is linked to every other. A shared opponent is not a transitive result and this page does not treat it as one.
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Side by side

What both records stateAUG 2026
Archie MooreCharley Burley
75″ (190.5 cm)Reach—
71″ (180.3 cm)Height69″ (175.3 cm)
+5.66%Reach advantage—
186–23Record83–12
71%Finish rate60%
33Longest unbeaten run24
201Recorded bouts90
OrthodoxStanceOrthodox

A comparison of what is on record. Nothing here predicts a result.

Common opponents

Both fought these 9. This is the comparison the siloed databases cannot make, because it needs every fight list linked to every other.

Both records, drawn

The same ledger line on each: wins stamped above the rule, losses below, the mark's shape carrying how it ended.

Archie Moore

194019501960win v Bob Satterfield, 1949, kowin v Vernon Williams, 1950, kowin v Bert Lytell, 1950, decisionloss v Harold Johnson, 1951, decisionwin v Chubby Wright, 1951, kowin v Embrel Davidson, 1951, kowin v Alfredo Lagay, 1951, kowin v Rafael Miranda, 1951, kowin v Americo Capitanelli, 1951, kowin v Victor Carabajal, 1951, kowin v Vicente Quiroz, 1951, kowin v Alberto Santiago Lovell, 1951, kodraw v Karel Sys, 1951, decisionwin v Abel Cestac, 1951, kowin v Art Henri, 1951, kowin v Herman Harris, 1951, kowin v Jimmy Bivins, 1951, kowin v John Thomas, 1951, kowin v Oakland Billy Smith, 1951, kowin v Joey Maxim, 1952, decisionwin v Clinton Bacon, 1952, kowin v Clarence Henry, 1952, decisionwin v Bob Dunlap, 1952, kowin v Jimmy Slade, 1952, decisionwin v Harold Johnson, 1952, decisionwin v Dogomar Martinez, 1953, decisionwin v Rinaldo Ansaloni, 1953, kowin v Joey Maxim, 1953, decisionwin v Frank Buford, 1953, kowin v Al Spaulding, 1953, kowin v Niño Valdés, 1953, decisionwin v Sonny Andrews, 1953, kowin v Leonard Dugan, 1953, kowin v Toxie Hall, 1953, kowin v Harold Johnson, 1954, kowin v Bert Whitehurst, 1954, kowin v Bob Baker, 1954, kowin v Joey Maxim, 1954, decisionloss v Rocky Marciano, 1955, kowin v Bobo Olson, 1955, kowin v Niño Valdés, 1955, decisionloss v Floyd Patterson, 1956, kowin v Roy Shire, 1956, kowin v James J. Parker, 1956, kowin v Yolande Pompey, 1956, kowin v Gene Thompson, 1956, kowin v Sonny Andrews, 1956, kowin v George Parmentier, 1956, kowin v Willie Bean, 1956, kowin v Howard King, 1956, decisionwin v Frankie Daniels, 1956, decisionwin v Bob Dunlap, 1956, kowin v Roger Rischer, 1957, kowin v Eddie Cotton, 1957, decisionwin v Ralph Hooker, 1957, kowin v Tony Anthony, 1957, kowin v Alain Cherville, 1957, kowin v Hans Kalbfell, 1957, decisionwin v Yvon Durelle, 1958, kodraw v Howard King, 1958, decisionwin v Charley Norkus, 1958, decisionwin v Willi Besmanoff, 1958, decisionwin v Bob Albright, 1958, kowin v Bert Whitehurst, 1958, kowin v Julio Neves, 1958, kowin v Luis Ignacio, 1958, decisionwin v Yvon Durelle, 1959, kowin v Sterling Davis, 1959, kowin v Buddy Turman, 1960, decisionloss v Giulio Rinaldi, 1960, decisionwin v George Abinet, 1960, kowin v Willi Besmanoff, 1960, kowin v Pete Rademacher, 1961, kowin v Giulio Rinaldi, 1961, decisionwin v Buddy Turman, 1961, decisionloss v Cassius Clay, 1962, kodraw v Willie Pastrano, 1962, decisionwin v Howard King, 1962, kowin v Alejandro Lavorante, 1962, kowin v Mike DiBiase, 1963, ko
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1949–1963 · EARLIEST 121 NOT SHOWN
1940 1950 1960 win vs Billy Simms (1935)win vs Sammy Jackson (1936)win vs Murray Allen (1936)draw vs Sammy Christian (1936)win vs Kid Pocahuntas (1936)win vs Sammy Jackson (1937)win vs Sammy Christian (1937)win vs Chuck Vickers (1937)win vs Charley Dawson (1937)win vs Sammy Slaughter (1937)loss vs Billy Adams (1937)win vs Deacon Logan (1937)win vs Frank Hatfield (1937)win vs Al Dublinsky (1937)win vs Doty Turner (1937)win vs Carl Martin (1937)win vs Ham Pounder (1937)win vs Joe Huff (1937)win vs Johnny Davis (1937)win vs Mack Payne (1937)win vs Bob Turner (1938)win vs Ray Lyle (1938)win vs Bobby Yannes (1938)win vs Tom Henry (1938)win vs Frank Rowsey (1938)win vs Johnny Romero (1938)win vs Lorenzo Pedro (1938)win vs Johnny Sikes (1938)win vs Ray Vargas (1938)win vs Jimmy Brent (1938)win vs Karl Lautenschlager (1938)loss vs Shorty Hogue (1939)win vs Honeyboy Jones (1939)win vs Billy Day (1939)draw vs Freddie Dixon (1939)win vs Bobby Seaman (1939)win vs Jack Coggins (1939)loss vs Teddy Yarosz (1939)win vs Marty Simmons (1939)win vs Domenico Ceccarelli (1939)win vs Jack Moran (1939)win vs Pancho Ramirez (1940)win vs Ron Richards (1940)win vs Fred Henneberry (1940)win vs Frank Lindsay (1940)win vs Joe Delaney (1940)win vs Atilio Sabatino (1940)win vs Jack McNamee (1940)draw vs Eddie Booker (1941)loss vs Shorty Hogue (1941)win vs Clay Rowan (1941)draw vs Eddie Booker (1942)win vs Jack Chase (1942)win vs Tabby Romero (1942)win vs Shorty Hogue (1942)win vs Jimmy Casino (1942)win vs Al Globe (1942)win vs Bobby Britt (1942)win vs Jack Chase (1943)win vs Kid Hermosillo (1943)loss vs Aaron Wade (1943)win vs Eddie Cerda (1943)win vs Big Boy Hogue (1943)win vs Nate Bolden (1944)win vs Battling Monroe (1944)win vs Jimmy Hayden (1944)win vs Lloyd Kip Mays (1944)win vs Kenny LaSalle (1944)loss vs Charley Burley (1944)win vs Roman Starr (1944)loss vs Eddie Booker (1944)win vs Amado Rodriguez (1944)win vs Colion Chaney (1945)win vs Holman Williams (1945)win vs O'Dell Riley (1945)win vs Cocoa Kid (1945)loss vs Jimmy Bivins (1945)win vs Lloyd Marshall (1945)win vs George Kochan (1945)win vs Teddy Randolph (1945)win vs Nate Bolden (1945)win vs Napoleon Mitchell (1945)win vs Bob Jacobs (1945)win vs Joey Jones (1945)draw vs Jack Chase (1946)draw vs Oakland Billy Smith (1946)win vs Jimmy O'Brien (1946)win vs Buddy Walker (1946)loss vs Ezzard Charles (1946)win vs Vern Escoe (1946)win vs George Parks (1946)win vs Curtis Sheppard (1946)win vs George Fitch (1947)win vs Jimmy Bivins (1947)win vs Bobby Zander (1947)win vs Bert Lytell (1947)win vs Curtis Sheppard (1947)loss vs Ezzard Charles (1947)win vs Rusty Payne (1947)win vs Jack Chase (1947)win vs Charley Williams (1948)win vs Bob Amos (1948)win vs Henry Hall (1948)loss vs Lloyd Gibson (1948)win vs Oakland Billy Smith (1948)win vs Ted Lowry (1948)win vs Jimmy Bivins (1948)loss vs Leonard Morrow (1948)win vs Dusty Wilkerson (1948)loss vs Ezzard Charles (1948)win vs Leonard Morrow (1949)win vs Charley Williams (1949)win vs Phil Muscato (1949)win vs Bob Amos (1949)win vs Esco Greenwood (1949)win vs Bob Sikes (1949)loss vs Clinton Bacon (1949)win vs Harold Johnson (1949)win vs Jimmy Bivins (1949)win vs Dusty Wilkerson (1949)win vs Alabama Kid (1949)win vs Bob Satterfield (1949)win vs Vernon Williams (1950)win vs Bert Lytell (1950)loss vs Harold Johnson (1951)win vs Chubby Wright (1951)win vs Embrel Davidson (1951)win vs Alfredo Lagay (1951)win vs Rafael Miranda (1951)win vs Americo Capitanelli (1951)win vs Victor Carabajal (1951)win vs Vicente Quiroz (1951)win vs Alberto Santiago Lovell (1951)draw vs Karel Sys (1951)win vs Abel Cestac (1951)win vs Art Henri (1951)win vs Herman Harris (1951)win vs Jimmy Bivins (1951)win vs John Thomas (1951)win vs Oakland Billy Smith (1951)win vs Joey Maxim (1952)win vs Clinton Bacon (1952)win vs Clarence Henry (1952)win vs Bob Dunlap (1952)win vs Jimmy Slade (1952)win vs Harold Johnson (1952)win vs Dogomar Martinez (1953)win vs Rinaldo Ansaloni (1953)win vs Joey Maxim (1953)win vs Frank Buford (1953)win vs Al Spaulding (1953)win vs Niño Valdés (1953)win vs Sonny Andrews (1953)win vs Leonard Dugan (1953)win vs Toxie Hall (1953)win vs Harold Johnson (1954)win vs Bert Whitehurst (1954)win vs Bob Baker (1954)win vs Joey Maxim (1954)loss vs Rocky Marciano (1955)win vs Bobo Olson (1955)win vs Niño Valdés (1955)loss vs Floyd Patterson (1956)win vs Roy Shire (1956)win vs James J. Parker (1956)win vs Yolande Pompey (1956)win vs Gene Thompson (1956)win vs Sonny Andrews (1956)win vs George Parmentier (1956)win vs Willie Bean (1956)win vs Howard King (1956)win vs Frankie Daniels (1956)win vs Bob Dunlap (1956)win vs Roger Rischer (1957)win vs Eddie Cotton (1957)win vs Ralph Hooker (1957)win vs Tony Anthony (1957)win vs Alain Cherville (1957)win vs Hans Kalbfell (1957)win vs Yvon Durelle (1958)draw vs Howard King (1958)win vs Charley Norkus (1958)win vs Willi Besmanoff (1958)win vs Bob Albright (1958)win vs Bert Whitehurst (1958)win vs Julio Neves (1958)win vs Luis Ignacio (1958)win vs Yvon Durelle (1959)win vs Sterling Davis (1959)win vs Buddy Turman (1960)loss vs Giulio Rinaldi (1960)win vs George Abinet (1960)win vs Willi Besmanoff (1960)win vs Pete Rademacher (1961)win vs Giulio Rinaldi (1961)win vs Buddy Turman (1961)loss vs Cassius Clay (1962)draw vs Willie Pastrano (1962)win vs Howard King (1962)win vs Alejandro Lavorante (1962)win vs Mike DiBiase (1963)
winlossdraw / NC1935–1963

Charley Burley

193019401950UNFILEDwin v Johnny Folio, 1937, kowin v Ray Collins, 1937, kowin v Ralph Gizzy, 1937, kowin v Billy Soose, 1938, decisionwin v Werther Arcelli, 1938, kowin v Herbert Lewis Hardwick, 1938, decisionwin v Leon Zorrita, 1938, decisionwin v Fritzie Zivic, 1938, decisionwin v Mike Barto, 1938, kowin v Art Tate, 1938, kowin v Carl Turner, 1938, decisionwin v Johnny Folio, 1938, decisionwin v Tiger Jackson, 1938, koloss v Holman Williams, 1939, decisionwin v Mickey Makar, 1939, kowin v Jimmy Leto, 1939, decisionwin v Fritzie Zivic, 1939, decisionwin v Sonny Jones, 1939, kowin v Vince Pimpinella, 1940, decisionwin v Ernest Peirce, 1940, decisionloss v Jimmy Bivins, 1940, decisionwin v Kenny LaSalle, 1940, decisiondraw v Georgie Abrams, 1940, decisionwin v Carl Dell, 1940, decisionwin v Sam Edwards, 1940, kowin v Baby Kid Chocolate, 1940, kowin v Nate Bolden, 1940, decisionwin v Jerry Hayes, 1941, kowin v Ted Morrison, 1941, kowin v Antonio Fernandez, 1941, decisionwin v Otto Blackwell, 1941, decisionwin v Young Gene Buffalo, 1941, kowin v Ossie Harris, 1941, kowin v Eddie Ellis, 1941, kowin v Babe Synnott, 1941, koloss v Lloyd Marshall, 1942, decisionwin v Cecilio Lozada, 1942, koloss v Holman Williams, 1942, decisionloss v Ezzard Charles, 1942, decisionwin v George Wilson, 1942, kowin v Joe Sutka, 1942, kowin v Phil McQuillan, 1942, kowin v Cleo McNeal, 1942, kowin v Jay D Turner, 1942, kowin v Shorty Hogue, 1942, kowin v Milo Theodorescu, 1942, kowin v Jackie Burke, 1942, kowin v Bobby Birch, 1943, decisionresult not stated v Holman Williams, 1943draw v Herbert Lewis Hardwick, 1943, decisionwin v Aaron Wade, 1943, decisionwin v Jack Chase, 1943, decisionwin v Harvey Massey, 1943, kowin v Jack Chase, 1944, kowin v Young Gene Buffalo, 1944, kowin v Frankie Nelson, 1944, kowin v Al Gilbert, 1944, kowin v Archie Moore, 1944, decisionwin v Aaron Wade, 1944, decisionwin v Bobby Berger, 1944, kowin v Oakland Billy Smith, 1945, decisionwin v Speedy Duvall, 1945, kowin v Dave Clark, 1945, kowin v Aaron Wade, 1945, decisionwin v Oscar Boyd, 1945, koloss v Holman Williams, 1945, decisionwin v Joe Carter, 1945, decisionwin v Bert Lytell, 1946, decisionwin v Charley Banks, 1946, decisionwin v Oakland Billy Smith, 1946, decisionwin v Paulie Peters, 1946, kowin v Charley Dodson, 1946, kowin v Larry Cartwright, 1947, koloss v Bert Lytell, 1947, decisionwin v Lonnie Craft, 1948, kowin v Willie Wright, 1949, decisionloss v Charley Doc Williams, 1949, decisionwin v Pilar Bastidas, 1950, decisionwin v Buddy Hodnett, 1950, kowin v Chuck Higgins, 1950, koresult not stated v Opponent, no date on record
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1937–1950 · EARLIEST 9 NOT SHOWN · 1 UNDATED
1940 1950 win vs Eddie Wirko (1936)win vs Ralph Gizzy (1936)win vs George Liggins (1936)loss vs Eddie Dolan (1937)win vs Sammy Grippe (1937)win vs Remo Fernandez (1937)win vs Mickey O'Brien (1937)win vs Keith Goodballet (1937)win vs Ray Gray (1937)win vs Johnny Folio (1937)win vs Ray Collins (1937)win vs Ralph Gizzy (1937)win vs Billy Soose (1938)win vs Werther Arcelli (1938)win vs Herbert Lewis Hardwick (1938)win vs Leon Zorrita (1938)win vs Fritzie Zivic (1938)win vs Mike Barto (1938)win vs Art Tate (1938)win vs Carl Turner (1938)win vs Johnny Folio (1938)win vs Tiger Jackson (1938)loss vs Holman Williams (1939)win vs Mickey Makar (1939)win vs Jimmy Leto (1939)win vs Fritzie Zivic (1939)win vs Sonny Jones (1939)win vs Vince Pimpinella (1940)win vs Ernest Peirce (1940)loss vs Jimmy Bivins (1940)win vs Kenny LaSalle (1940)draw vs Georgie Abrams (1940)win vs Carl Dell (1940)win vs Sam Edwards (1940)win vs Baby Kid Chocolate (1940)win vs Nate Bolden (1940)win vs Jerry Hayes (1941)win vs Ted Morrison (1941)win vs Antonio Fernandez (1941)win vs Otto Blackwell (1941)win vs Young Gene Buffalo (1941)win vs Ossie Harris (1941)win vs Eddie Ellis (1941)win vs Babe Synnott (1941)loss vs Lloyd Marshall (1942)win vs Cecilio Lozada (1942)loss vs Holman Williams (1942)loss vs Ezzard Charles (1942)win vs George Wilson (1942)win vs Joe Sutka (1942)win vs Phil McQuillan (1942)win vs Cleo McNeal (1942)win vs Jay D Turner (1942)win vs Shorty Hogue (1942)win vs Milo Theodorescu (1942)win vs Jackie Burke (1942)win vs Bobby Birch (1943)? vs Holman Williams (1943)draw vs Herbert Lewis Hardwick (1943)win vs Aaron Wade (1943)win vs Jack Chase (1943)win vs Harvey Massey (1943)win vs Jack Chase (1944)win vs Young Gene Buffalo (1944)win vs Frankie Nelson (1944)win vs Al Gilbert (1944)win vs Archie Moore (1944)win vs Aaron Wade (1944)win vs Bobby Berger (1944)win vs Oakland Billy Smith (1945)win vs Speedy Duvall (1945)win vs Dave Clark (1945)win vs Aaron Wade (1945)win vs Oscar Boyd (1945)loss vs Holman Williams (1945)win vs Joe Carter (1945)win vs Bert Lytell (1946)win vs Charley Banks (1946)win vs Oakland Billy Smith (1946)win vs Paulie Peters (1946)win vs Charley Dodson (1946)win vs Larry Cartwright (1947)loss vs Bert Lytell (1947)win vs Lonnie Craft (1948)win vs Willie Wright (1949)loss vs Charley Doc Williams (1949)win vs Pilar Bastidas (1950)win vs Buddy Hodnett (1950)win vs Chuck Higgins (1950)
winlossdraw / NC1936–1950

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