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Mel Collins vs Rubin Carter — record, stats and common opponents compared

Mel Collins

🇨🇦CANADA

Rubin Carter

Mel Collins (0-6 across 6 tracked bouts) and Rubin Carter (27-12-1) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 1 common opponent.

Collins

Tracked record

0–6

counted from 6 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Carter

27

Wins19 KO · 70%

12

Losses

1

Draw40 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

Carter leads 1–0

Mel Collins and Rubin Carter have met 1 time; Carter leads 1–0.

Mel Collins and Rubin Carter have met 1 time; Carter leads 1–0.
Met1962Oct 8Series
Mel CollinsFighter ALLost0–1W–L
Rubin CarterFighter BWWon1–0W–L
ResultTKOR51Meeting

The Numbers

Collins 0 · Carter 5 of 5 measurable rows
CollinsCarter
Record†
0-627-12-1 (edge)
Win %0–100%
0%
68.8% (edge)
Wins by knockoutmax 19
0
19 (edge)
KO ratenot comparable
—70.37%
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡not comparable
—70%
Times stopped‡max 3
3
1 (edge)
Title reignslevelmax 0
0
0
Bouts per year§max 8.2
0.8
8.2 (edge)
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 40
6
40

† 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

Reachnot held
Mel Collins: No reach on file
Rubin Carter: 72″
Agenot held
Mel Collins: No date of birth
Rubin Carter: Died aged 76
Stance
Mel Collins: Not recorded
Rubin Carter: Orthodox

Mel Collins left, Rubin Carter right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Mel Collins0 wins · from 6 tracked bouts

Mel Collins: no tracked wins in the 6 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

No tracked wins for Collins yet.

Rubin Carter27 wins · from 40 tracked bouts

Rubin Carter: 27 tracked wins — 19 by KO/TKO (70%) and 8 on the cards (30%). Counted from 40 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

19 by KO/TKO 70%8 on the cards 30%

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Mel Collins 6, Rubin Carter 40 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

1 shared

1 shared · even on 1

Collins

Opponent

Carter

  • Mel Collins

    0–2 against

    Loss, UD

    1962

    Loss, UD

    1960

    RodríguezEven

    Rubin Carter

    0–2 against

    Loss, UD

    1965

    Loss, UD

    1965

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

Mel Collins last boxed on Jan 17, 1968 — 21,460 days ago. Collins had lost six straight.LLLLL

Rodríguez Oct 1960Torres Jun 1961Carter Oct 1962Rodríguez Dec 1962Little Jan 19680.8 tracked bouts per year

Rubin Carter has lost the most recent, to Juan Carlos Rivero. Carter last boxed on Aug 6, 1966.LLWDL

Morris Jan 1966Harrington Jan 1966Burford Feb 1966McClure Mar 1966Rivero Aug 19668.2 tracked bouts per year

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Mel Collins and Rubin Carter ever fought each other?
Yes. Mel Collins and Rubin Carter met once on October 8, 1962, and Rubin Carter won by TKO in round 5.
The meeting

LOct 8, 1962 · Carter · TKO R5

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Collins or Carter?
Mel Collins is 0-6 across the 6 bouts Kill The Body has tracked and Rubin Carter is 27-12-1. Rubin Carter has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Collins0–60%

Carter27–12–168.8%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Collins or Carter?
Mel Collins has 0 knockout wins and Rubin Carter has 19. Rubin Carter has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Collins0

Carter1970.4%

The Numbers ↓
Do Collins and Carter have any common opponents?
Mel Collins and Rubin Carter share 1 common opponent: Luis Manuel Rodríguez. Neither fighter fared better across the shared opponents overall.
Shared opponent

Luis Manuel RodríguezLL

Common Opponents ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Collins and Carter?
This comparison is drawn from 6 bouts tracked for Mel Collins and 40 bouts tracked for Rubin Carter. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Collins6bouts

Carter40bouts

How They Win ↓

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