H&G All-Time Index public fighter card
Ricky Burns
Lightweight · United Kingdom
Ricky Burns ranks #305 in the H&G All-Time Index at Lightweight, with a 77.70 All-Time Index score and a 45-8-1 professional record. His career span on this page is 2001-2023.
- All-time rank
- #305
- H&G All-Time Index
- 77.700-100 ranking index. This is the number that orders the list.
- Career record
- 45-8-1Professional wins, losses and draws.
- Active years
- 2001-2023
- Data Confidence
- HighDeep career evidence and a tighter peak-rating band in this release. Close ranks still need boxing judgement.
Career story
How Ricky Burns's rating rose and fell year by year, with his peak marked.
Yearly peak-form Elo rating points. This curve is separate from the 0-100 ranking index.
Show the year-by-year numbers
| Year | Peak-form Elo rating |
|---|---|
| 2001 | 1,695 |
| 2002 | 1,735 |
| 2004 | 1,790 |
| 2005 | 1,796 |
| 2006 | 1,807 |
| 2007 | 1,838 |
| 2008 | 1,867 |
| 2009 | 1,880 |
| 2010 | 1,904 |
| 2011 | 1,906 |
| 2012 | 1,902 |
| 2013 | 1,875 |
| 2014 | 1,845 |
| 2015 | 1,827 |
| 2016 | 1,821 |
| 2017 | 1,799 |
| 2018 | 1,796 |
| 2019 | 1,791 |
| 2021 | 1,812 |
| 2023 | 1,823 |
Why this ranking
Ricky Burns ranks #305 with a 77.70 score on the 60-100 H&G All-Time Index. His standout win in our data is over Kevin Mitchell in 2012, who reached a 1,865 Peak-form Elo, one of the stronger opponents on his record. He also has 2 wins over opponents who were ranked in the top 100 around the time of the fight; these are matched by name and date, so we treat them as a careful estimate. The strongest model lifts are quality of opponents beaten (around the typical top-1000 fighter) and sustained head-to-head rating level (around the typical top-1000 fighter). Peak-form Elo is 1,906 (±192), separate from the 60-100 career Index.
What lifts or lowers this ranking
Bars show each weighted signal's relative size. Gold lifts the placement; grey holds it back.
How much the record is helped by wins over contemporaneous title-level opponents.
Collapsed signal from peak rating, sustained rating and same-era separation.
How much major title evidence supports the rating.
Same-era separation left after the shared peak and sustained rating signal is removed.
How much repeat elite-year presence supports the all-time case.
A narrow signal for lineal, explicit undisputed or major multi-belt class control in this release data; it is not a full title history.
Compare and explore
Put Ricky Burns next to any other ranked fighter, or open the tools built on the same rating data.
Top fights
The highest-ranked fighters Ricky Burns actually faced, biggest names first. Each one opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Terence Crawford#2 · Index 98 · 2014
- Lee Selby#323 · Index 77 · 2019
- Roman Martinez#519 · Index 75 · 2010
- Omar Figueroa Jr#541 · Index 75 · 2015
- Kevin Mitchell#917 · Index 71 · 2012
- Anthony Crolla#997 · Index 71 · 2017
Ranked-vs-ranked bouts from the pinned fight archive, ordered by opponent ranking. An objective record of who they shared a ring with.
Great rivals he never fought
Ranked fighters who shared a recognised division and whose competitive careers overlapped, with no bout between them on record. Each name opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Canelo Álvarez#5 · Super Lightweight · 19 overlapping years (2005-2023)
- Floyd Mayweather Jr#7 · Super Featherweight / Lightweight / Super Lightweight · 17 overlapping years (2001-2017)
- Oscar De La Hoya#24 · Super Featherweight / Lightweight / Super Lightweight · 8 overlapping years (2001-2008)
- Manny Pacquiao#25 · Super Featherweight / Super Lightweight · 23 overlapping years (2001-2023)
- Devin Haney#62 · Lightweight / Super Lightweight · 9 overlapping years (2015-2023)
- Marco Antonio Barrera#74 · Super Featherweight · 11 overlapping years (2001-2011)
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- Erik Morales#78 · Super Featherweight / Lightweight / Super Lightweight · 12 overlapping years (2001-2012)
- Miguel Cotto#79 · Super Lightweight · 17 overlapping years (2001-2017)
- Artur Grigorian#93 · Lightweight · 9 overlapping years (2001-2009)
- Zab Judah#103 · Super Lightweight · 19 overlapping years (2001-2019)
- Timothy Bradley Jr#106 · Super Lightweight · 13 overlapping years (2004-2016)
- Sugar Shane Mosley#108 · Lightweight · 16 overlapping years (2001-2016)
Shared recognised division, overlapping competitive years, no recorded bout between them. A measured pattern only.
About this rating
Rankings: H&G All-Time Index v2.0.0. Reflects fights up to , the most recent on record. The ratings are fixed to that point, so fights after it are not yet included.
The rating itself is built from the 54 bouts we hold full data for from 2001 to 2023, which is why this count differs from the professional record above.
For the data-minded
Peak-form Elo rating: 1,906 (peak dated 2011-07-01). This best-point rating sits on its own scale and is not directly comparable with the 0-100 index.
The peak estimate carries an uncertainty band of about ±192 Elo, so read close comparisons with care.