Career
He is currently signed to the Sydney Roosters and formerly played for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and Canberra Raiders of the NRL. He made his professional boxing debut on 27 November 2013 in a fight against Luke Turner. In 2009, while playing for the Sharks, Ferguson was just beaten by Jamal Idris as the rookie of the year at the 2009 Dally M Awards. In 2010, he was called up to play for the Indigenous All-Stars replacing the injured Justin Hodges.
In that match he famously ran down Israel Folau.
Following a clause in his contract that allowed him to leave the Sharks if coach Ricky Stuart left, Ferguson also left the club at the end of 2010. He signed a 2-year deal to play with the Canberra Raiders starting from 2011.
He was the Raiders top try-scorer for the season. In 2012, Ferguson had one of his best seasons on the field, representing the Country New South Wales rugby league team and making the Australia national rugby league team train-on squad.
In 2013, Ferguson made his debut for the New South Wales rugby league team in Game I of the 2013 State of Origin series.
He had previously been approached by Queensland rugby league team coach Mal Meninga to play for Queensland. Following his debut Origin game Ferguson"s league career took a highly publicized downward spiral following an indecent assault charge. In May 2014, Ferguson signed with the Sydney Roosters, who beat out South Sydney Rabbitohs for his services.
In late June 2014, following Ferguson"s guilt over his 2013 indecent assault charge, the NRL rejected an application for him to join the Sydney Roosters for the remainder of the 2014 NRL season, meaning he had to wait until the 2015 season to play for his new club
As part of his rehabilitation, Ferguson completed a rugby league refereeing course. He is widely seen as the man to replace Sonny Bill Williams, who departed after the 2014 season.
Foreign the 2015 NRL season Ferguson"s healthy form has led to Wendell Sailor considering him "the second best buy of the season". Follwoing the departure of Roger Tuivasa-Sheck from the Roosters, after 2015, Ferguson was anointed as the player to replace him at fullback for the 2016 season.
Blake has been disciplined for several incidents of off-field behaviour.
At a music festival in November 2012 he was escorted by security staff out of a Very Important Person area after reports that he had been spitting on patrons. The Raiders refused to answer specific questions about the incident but stated that "We are aware of the incident and Blake has been disciplined internally." On 17 June, Ferguson was apprehended and charged by police for an alleged Indecent Assault at the Sutherland Shire nightclub 2230. On Friday 6 September 2013 the Canberra Raiders sacked Ferguson.
On 11 December 2013, Ferguson was found guilty of indecently assaulting a woman at a nightspot in Cronulla on 16 June 2013.
Ferguson had pleaded not guilty arguing that he had mistaken the woman for a woman he was going to meet.