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Bert Young vs Rube Ferns — record, stats and common opponents compared

Bert Young

🇺🇸WELTERWEIGHT

Rube Ferns

Bert Young (1-0 across 1 tracked bouts) and Rube Ferns (46-19-9) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share no common opponents in Kill The Body's bout data.

Young

Tracked record

1–0

counted from 1 bout Kill The Body has ingested

Ferns

46

Wins33 KO · 72%

19

Losses

9

Draws74 tracked bouts

Heads up: at least one of these records is a tracked record — the wins and losses Kill The Body has ingested so far, not an independently verified career total. Treat the comparison as a read on the bouts we hold, not a settled ledger.

Head to Head

Young leads 1–0

Bert Young and Rube Ferns have met 1 time; Young leads 1–0.

Bert Young and Rube Ferns have met 1 time; Young leads 1–0.
Met1899Jul 18Series
Bert YoungFighter AWWon1–0W–L
Rube FernsFighter BLLost0–1W–L
ResultTKOR91Meeting

The Numbers

Young 4 · Ferns 1 of 5 measurable rows
YoungFerns
Record†
1-0 (edge)46-19-9
Win %0–100%
100% (edge)
68.2%
Wins by knockoutmax 33
1
33 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—71.74%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
100% (edge)
71%
Times stopped‡max 9
0 (edge)
9
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§not comparable
—5.4
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 74
1
74

† One or both records are tracked, not career-verified. · ‡ Counted from bouts Kill The Body has ingested, not a career total. · § Across each fighter's tracked career span. · Bars are scaled per row — percentages on 0–100, counts against the larger of the two. Every figure is also printed as text.

Tale of the Tape

Heightnot held
Bert Young: No height on file
Rube Ferns: 5′8″
Agenot held
Bert Young: No date of birth
Rube Ferns: Died aged 78
Stance
Bert Young: Not recorded
Rube Ferns: Orthodox

Bert Young left, Rube Ferns right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Bert Young1 win · from 1 tracked bout

Bert Young: 1 tracked win — 1 by KO/TKO (100%). Counted from 1 bout Kill The Body has ingested.

1 by KO/TKO 100%

Rube Ferns45 wins · from 74 tracked bouts

Rube Ferns: 45 tracked wins — 32 by KO/TKO (71%), 9 on the cards (20%) and 4 by another method or unrecorded (9%). Counted from 74 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

32 by KO/TKO 71%9 on the cards 20%4 by another method or unrecorded 9%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Bert Young 1, Rube Ferns 74 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

No opponents in common across the bouts Kill The Body has tracked for these two.

Current Form

Oldest left · newest right

Bert Young last boxed on Jul 18, 1899 — 46,479 days ago. Young had won once, the most recent against Rube Ferns.W

Ferns Jul 1899

Rube Ferns has lost two straight. Ferns last boxed on Apr 5, 1910.WDDLL

Mason Jun 1906Sieger Jun 1906Dukelow Dec 1906Farmer Sep 1907Ferns Apr 19105.4 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Bert Young and Rube Ferns ever fought each other?
Yes. Bert Young and Rube Ferns met once on July 18, 1899, and Bert Young won by TKO in round 9.
The meeting

WJul 18, 1899 · Young · TKO R9

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Young or Ferns?
Bert Young is 1-0 across the 1 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Rube Ferns is 46-19-9. Bert Young has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Young1–0100%

Ferns46–19–968.2%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Young or Ferns?
Bert Young has 1 knockout win and Rube Ferns has 33. Rube Ferns has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Young1

Ferns3371.7%

The Numbers ↓
Do Young and Ferns have any common opponents?
Kill The Body's bout data shows no opponents that both Bert Young and Rube Ferns have faced.
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Young and Ferns?
This comparison is drawn from 1 bout tracked for Bert Young and 74 bouts tracked for Rube Ferns. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Young1bout

Ferns74bouts

How They Win ↓

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