Rube Ferns
46–19 · 70 recorded bouts · 1896–1910
46–19–9
Rube Ferns finished 72% of 46 wins inside the distance — the 78th percentile for welterweight boxing, where the median is 54%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Rube Ferns — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-12
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 2026-07-12. 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 292 welterweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | L | Wildcat Ferns | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1907 | L | Kid Farmer | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1906 | D | John Dukelow | Decision | 10 |
| 1906 | D | Charley Sieger | Decision | 20 |
| 1906 | W | Art Mason | Decision | 15 |
| 1906 | W | Charlie Conkle | DQ | 3 |
| 1906 | L | Charley Hitte | DQ | 7 |
| 1906 | D | Mike Donovan | Draw | 6 |
| 1906 | W | Matty Matthews | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1906 | W | Billy Delaney | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1906 | W | Gus Gardner | — | 15 |
| 1905 | L | Billy Rhodes | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1905 | D | Jack Dunleavy | Decision | 17 |
| 1904 | W | Eugene Bezenah | — | 20 |
| 1904 | L | Martin Duffy | Decision | 20 |
| 1903 | D | Dick O'Brien | Decision | 10 |
| 1903 | L | Martin Duffy | KO/TKO | 13 |
| 1903 | W | Matty Matthews | KO/TKO | 19 |
| 1902 | L | Matty Matthews | Decision | 10 |
| 1902 | L | Hugo Kelly | Decision | 10 |
| 1902 | W | Billy Emerson | Decision | 10 |
| 1902 | W | Owen Ziegler | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1902 | L | Al Neill | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1902 | L | Tom Tracey | Decision | 20 |
| 1902 | W | Tim Draffin Murphy | Decision | 6 |
| 1902 | W | Jack Bennett | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1901 | L | Barbados Joe Walcott | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1901 | W | Charles Dutch Thurston | Decision | 15 |
| 1901 | W | Frank Erne | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1901 | W | Matty Matthews | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1900 | L | Matty Matthews | Decision | 15 |
| 1900 | W | Eddie Connolly | KO/TKO | 15 |
| 1900 | W | Joe Reptie | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1900 | W | Otto Knop | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1900 | W | Jack Bennett | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1900 | W | Jack Hanley | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1900 | W | Mike Donovan | Decision | 20 |
| 1900 | W | Mysterious Billy Smith | DQ | 21 |
| 1899 | W | Walter Burgo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1899 | W | Sammy Callahan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1899 | W | Bobby Dobbs | Decision | 20 |
| 1899 | L | Bert Young | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1899 | W | Shorty Ahearn | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1899 | W | Otto Mauke | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1899 | L | Charlie McKeever | Decision | 6 |
| 1898 | W | Walter Montgomery | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1898 | W | Spot Robinson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1898 | W | Paddy Purtell | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1898 | D | Ben Smith | Decision | 12 |
| 1898 | W | George Fitzgerald | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1898 | W | Frank 'Dutch' Neal | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1898 | W | Billy Emerson | Decision | 10 |
| 1897 | W | Hugh McManus | KO/TKO | 23 |
| 1897 | D | Walter Montgomery | Decision | 10 |
| 1897 | L | Bobby Dobbs | Decision | 8 |
| 1897 | W | Lou DeMonge | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1897 | L | Izzy Strauss | DQ | 1 |
| 1897 | D | Oscar Gardner | Decision | 6 |
| 1897 | W | Bill Mahan | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1897 | D | Scaldy Bill Quinn | Decision | 6 |
Showing 60 of 70 recorded bouts, most recent first.
9 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Rube Ferns — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-12
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 68″ (172.7 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Welterweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1900s — 37 of 68 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Rube Ferns, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
46–19
74 bouts on record
Finish rate
72%
of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight boxing median 54%, 78th percentile
The career, bout by bout
70 recorded bouts from 1896 to 1910. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
1896–1910
Longest unbeaten run
10
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1906
9 bouts
Recorded bouts
70
68 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Rube Ferns's record?
- 46–19–9 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 70 bouts individually.
- How many of Rube Ferns's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 70. 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.
