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Bobby Dobbs vs Rube Ferns — record, stats and common opponents compared

Bobby Dobbs

🇺🇸WELTERWEIGHT

Rube Ferns

Bobby Dobbs (3-6-1 across 10 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 2 times. They share 1 common opponent.

Dobbs

Tracked record

3–6–1

counted from 10 bouts 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

Series level 1–1

Bobby Dobbs and Rube Ferns have met 2 times; Series level 1–1.

Bobby Dobbs and Rube Ferns have met 2 times; Series level 1–1.
Met1897Jul 21899Sep 29Series
Bobby DobbsFighter AWWonLLost1–1W–L
Rube FernsFighter BLLostWWon1–1W–L
ResultPTSPTS2Meetings

The Numbers

Dobbs 1 · Ferns 5 of 6 measurable rows
DobbsFerns
Record†
3-6-146-19-9 (edge)
Win %0–100%
35%
68.2% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 33
1
33 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—71.74%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
33%
71% (edge)
Times stopped‡max 9
3 (edge)
9
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 5.4
0.5
5.4 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 74
10
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
Bobby Dobbs: No height on file
Rube Ferns: 5′8″
Agenot held
Bobby Dobbs: No date of birth
Rube Ferns: Died aged 78
Stance
Bobby Dobbs: Not recorded
Rube Ferns: Orthodox

Bobby Dobbs 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
Bobby Dobbs3 wins · from 10 tracked bouts

Bobby Dobbs: 3 tracked wins — 1 by KO/TKO (33%) and 2 on the cards (67%). Counted from 10 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

1 by KO/TKO 33%2 on the cards 67%

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 — Bobby Dobbs 10, Rube Ferns 74 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

1 shared

1 shared · Ferns better on 1

Dobbs

Opponent

Ferns

  • Bobby Dobbs

    0–2 against

    Loss, KO 6

    1899

    Loss, NWS

    1897

    WalcottFerns better

    Rube Ferns

    Loss, TKO 5

    1901

Both sides are set at the same size on purpose. Kill The Body does not score a second-round knockout above a split decision — the edge counts losses first and wins as the tiebreak, and the rest is yours to argue. Shared opponents are matched on fighter identity, not on name, so two different fighters with the same name never merge into one row.

Current Form

Oldest left · newest right

Bobby Dobbs last boxed on Feb 3, 1912 — 41,900 days ago. Dobbs had lost five straight.LLLLL

Ferns Sep 1899Walcott Dec 1899Gans May 1901Gans Dec 1901Holberg Feb 19120.5 tracked bouts per year

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 Bobby Dobbs and Rube Ferns ever fought each other?
Yes. Bobby Dobbs and Rube Ferns have met 2 times and the series is level at 1-1.
The 2 meetings

LSep 29, 1899 · Ferns · PTS

WJul 2, 1897 · Dobbs · PTS

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Dobbs or Ferns?
Bobby Dobbs is 3-6-1 across the 10 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Rube Ferns is 46-19-9. Rube Ferns has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Dobbs3–6–135%

Ferns46–19–968.2%

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

Dobbs1

Ferns3371.7%

The Numbers ↓
Do Dobbs and Ferns have any common opponents?
Bobby Dobbs and Rube Ferns share 1 common opponent: Barbados Joe Walcott. Rube Ferns fared better against 1 of them.
Shared opponent

Barbados Joe WalcottLL

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Dobbs and Ferns?
This comparison is drawn from 10 bouts tracked for Bobby Dobbs and 74 bouts tracked for Rube Ferns. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Dobbs10bouts

Ferns74bouts

How They Win ↓

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