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Charlie McKeever vs Rube Ferns — record, stats and common opponents compared

Charlie McKeever

🇺🇸WELTERWEIGHT

Rube Ferns

Charlie McKeever (4-10-3 across 17 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 2 common opponents.

McKeever

Tracked record

4–10–3

counted from 17 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

McKeever leads 1–0

Charlie McKeever and Rube Ferns have met 1 time; McKeever leads 1–0.

Charlie McKeever and Rube Ferns have met 1 time; McKeever leads 1–0.
Met1899Feb 7Series
Charlie McKeeverFighter AWWon1–0W–L
Rube FernsFighter BLLost0–1W–L
ResultPTS1Meeting

The Numbers

McKeever 1 · Ferns 5 of 6 measurable rows
McKeeverFerns
Record†
4-10-346-19-9 (edge)
Win %0–100%
32.4%
68.2% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 33
0
33 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—71.74%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
0%
71% (edge)
Times stopped‡max 9
4 (edge)
9
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 5.4
1.7
5.4 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 74
17
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
Charlie McKeever: No height on file
Rube Ferns: 5′8″
Agenot held
Charlie McKeever: No date of birth
Rube Ferns: Died aged 78
Stance
Charlie McKeever: Not recorded
Rube Ferns: Orthodox

Charlie McKeever 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
Charlie McKeever4 wins · from 17 tracked bouts

Charlie McKeever: 4 tracked wins — 2 on the cards (50%) and 2 by another method or unrecorded (50%). Counted from 17 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

2 on the cards 50%2 by another method or unrecorded 50%

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 — Charlie McKeever 17, Rube Ferns 74 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

2 shared

2 shared · Ferns better on 1 · even on 1

McKeever

Opponent

Ferns

  • Charlie McKeever

    Loss, TKO 6

    1901

    WalcottEven

    Rube Ferns

    Loss, TKO 5

    1901

  • Charlie McKeever

    1–2–1 against

    Loss, PTS

    1899

    Win, NWS

    1899

    Draw, PTS

    1899

    Loss, PTS

    1898

    SmithFerns better

    Rube Ferns

    Win, DQ 21

    1900

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

Charlie McKeever last boxed on Apr 16, 1906 — 44,026 days ago. McKeever had lost nine straight.LLLLL

O'Brien Apr 1902O'Brien Jun 1902O'Brien Dec 1902Mellody Mar 1906Mellody Apr 19061.7 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 Charlie McKeever and Rube Ferns ever fought each other?
Yes. Charlie McKeever and Rube Ferns met once on February 7, 1899, and Charlie McKeever won by PTS.
The meeting

WFeb 7, 1899 · McKeever · PTS

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, McKeever or Ferns?
Charlie McKeever is 4-10-3 across the 17 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 %

McKeever4–10–332.4%

Ferns46–19–968.2%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, McKeever or Ferns?
Charlie McKeever has 0 knockout wins and Rube Ferns has 33. Rube Ferns has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

McKeever0

Ferns3371.7%

The Numbers ↓
Do McKeever and Ferns have any common opponents?
Charlie McKeever and Rube Ferns share 2 common opponents: Barbados Joe Walcott and Mysterious Billy Smith. Rube Ferns fared better against 1 of them.
2 shared opponents

Barbados Joe WalcottLL

Mysterious Billy Smith1–2–1W

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on McKeever and Ferns?
This comparison is drawn from 17 bouts tracked for Charlie McKeever and 74 bouts tracked for Rube Ferns. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

McKeever17bouts

Ferns74bouts

How They Win ↓

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