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Jack Dougherty vs Rube Ferns — record, stats and common opponents compared

Jack Dougherty

🇺🇸WELTERWEIGHT

Rube Ferns

Jack Dougherty (0-6-2 across 8 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 1 common opponent.

Dougherty

Tracked record

0–6–2

counted from 8 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

Ferns leads 1–0

Jack Dougherty and Rube Ferns have met 1 time; Ferns leads 1–0.

Jack Dougherty and Rube Ferns have met 1 time; Ferns leads 1–0.
Met1896Jul 15Series
Jack DoughertyFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Rube FernsFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultKO1Meeting

The Numbers

Dougherty 1 · Ferns 4 of 5 measurable rows
DoughertyFerns
Record†
0-6-246-19-9 (edge)
Win %0–100%
12.5%
68.2% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 33
0
33 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—71.74%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡not comparable
—71%
Times stopped‡max 9
4 (edge)
9
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 5.4
0.7
5.4 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 74
8
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
Jack Dougherty: No height on file
Rube Ferns: 5′8″
Agenot held
Jack Dougherty: No date of birth
Rube Ferns: Died aged 78
Stance
Jack Dougherty: Not recorded
Rube Ferns: Orthodox

Jack Dougherty 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
Jack Dougherty0 wins · from 8 tracked bouts

Jack Dougherty: no tracked wins in the 8 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

No tracked wins for Dougherty yet.

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 — Jack Dougherty 8, Rube Ferns 74 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

1 shared

1 shared · even on 1

Dougherty

Opponent

Ferns

  • Jack Dougherty

    Loss, KO 8

    1906

    WalcottEven

    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

Jack Dougherty last boxed on Oct 19, 1906 — 43,831 days ago. Dougherty had lost three straight.LDLLL

Ferns Jul 1896Mellody Apr 1906Walcott Jul 1906Sullivan Sep 1906Lewis Oct 19060.7 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 Jack Dougherty and Rube Ferns ever fought each other?
Yes. Jack Dougherty and Rube Ferns met once on July 15, 1896, and Rube Ferns won by KO.
The meeting

LJul 15, 1896 · Ferns · KO

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Dougherty or Ferns?
Jack Dougherty is 0-6-2 across the 8 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 %

Dougherty0–6–212.5%

Ferns46–19–968.2%

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

Dougherty0

Ferns3371.7%

The Numbers ↓
Do Dougherty and Ferns have any common opponents?
Jack Dougherty and Rube Ferns share 1 common opponent: Barbados Joe Walcott. Neither fighter fared better across the shared opponents overall.
Shared opponent

Barbados Joe WalcottLL

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Dougherty and Ferns?
This comparison is drawn from 8 bouts tracked for Jack Dougherty and 74 bouts tracked for Rube Ferns. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Dougherty8bouts

Ferns74bouts

How They Win ↓

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