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Joe Gans vs Martin Flaherty — record, stats and common opponents compared

🇺🇸LIGHTWEIGHT

Joe Gans

Martin Flaherty

Joe Gans (160-12-21) and Martin Flaherty (1-3-1 across 5 tracked bouts) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 1 common opponent.

Gans

160

Wins

12

Losses

21

Draws194 tracked bouts

Flaherty

Tracked record

1–3–1

counted from 5 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

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

Gans leads 1–0

Joe Gans and Martin Flaherty have met 1 time; Gans leads 1–0.

Joe Gans and Martin Flaherty have met 1 time; Gans leads 1–0.
Met1901Apr 1Series
Joe GansFighter AWWon1–0W–L
Martin FlahertyFighter BLLost0–1W–L
ResultTKOR41Meeting

The Numbers

Gans 4 · Flaherty 1 of 5 measurable rows
GansFlaherty
Record†
160-12-21 (edge)1-3-1
Win %0–100%
88.3% (edge)
30%
Wins by knockoutlevelmax 0
0
0
KO ratenot comparable
0%—
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡0–100%
63% (edge)
0%
Times stopped‡max 5
5
1 (edge)
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 12.7
12.7 (edge)
0.5
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 194
194
5

† 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
Joe Gans: 5′7″
Martin Flaherty: No height on file
Reachnot held
Joe Gans: 71″
Martin Flaherty: No reach on file
Agenot held
Joe Gans: Died aged 35
Martin Flaherty: No date of birth
Stance
Joe Gans: Orthodox
Martin Flaherty: Not recorded

Joe Gans left, Martin Flaherty right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Joe Gans160 wins · from 194 tracked bouts

Joe Gans: 160 tracked wins — 101 by KO/TKO (63%), 39 on the cards (24%) and 20 by another method or unrecorded (13%). Counted from 194 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

101 by KO/TKO 63%39 on the cards 24%20 by another method or unrecorded 13%

Martin Flaherty1 win · from 5 tracked bouts

Martin Flaherty: 1 tracked win — 1 on the cards (100%). Counted from 5 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

1 on the cards 100%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Joe Gans 194, Martin Flaherty 5 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

1 shared

1 shared · Flaherty better on 1

Gans

Opponent

Flaherty

  • Joe Gans

    1–1 against

    Win, KO 1

    1902

    Loss, TKO 12

    1900

    ErneFlaherty better

    Martin Flaherty

    Win, UD

    1897

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

Joe Gans has won once since back-to-back stoppage losses to Battling Nelson. Gans last boxed on Mar 12, 1909.WWLLW

Robson Apr 1908Unholz May 1908Nelson Jul 1908Nelson Sep 1908White Mar 190912.7 tracked bouts per year

Martin Flaherty last boxed on Apr 1, 1901 — 45,857 days ago. Flaherty had lost two straight, after one straight win.LDWLL

Dixon Apr 1891Dixon Jun 1896Erne Feb 1897Smith May 1897Gans Apr 19010.5 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Joe Gans and Martin Flaherty ever fought each other?
Yes. Joe Gans and Martin Flaherty met once on April 1, 1901, and Joe Gans won by TKO in round 4.
The meeting

WApr 1, 1901 · Gans · TKO R4

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Gans or Flaherty?
Joe Gans is 160-12-21 and Martin Flaherty is 1-3-1 across the 5 bouts Kill The Body has tracked. Joe Gans has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Gans160–12–2188.3%

Flaherty1–3–130%

The Numbers ↓
Do Gans and Flaherty have any common opponents?
Joe Gans and Martin Flaherty share 1 common opponent: Frank Erne. Martin Flaherty fared better against 1 of them.
Shared opponent

Frank Erne1–1W

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Gans and Flaherty?
This comparison is drawn from 194 bouts tracked for Joe Gans and 5 bouts tracked for Martin Flaherty. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Gans194bouts

Flaherty5bouts

How They Win ↓

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