Ezra Sellers was a hell of a puncher

There's an interview on youtube with Carl Thompson talking bout Sellers power says he's the hardest puncher he faced more powerful then Haye. He could seriously crack but his chin was pretty poor like a modern Satterfield.

 

Oh sure, punish me for not being online when this thread was posted by stealing my Better than Ezra line.

 

Why are you talking to yourself?

 

He was clearly a harder puncher than Haye. You just need to compare their respective performances against Thompson to verify that. Haye threw the kitchen sink at an older Thompson and was only able to get him down through attrition before getting blasted out himself. Sellers dropped Thompson hard every time he landed, and laid him out flat on the canvas.

Sellers needs to have some more boxers do the Earnie Shavers thing on him. He's terribly underappreciated as a raw puncher.

 

Great comparison.

 

Sellers vs Thompson was a barn burner and proof positive that you don't need two great fighters to produce a classic.

It reminded me of a Cruiserweight version of Moorer-Cooper as much as anything. Two dangerous but also vulnerable guys just mixing it up until one eventually gave out.

 

Sellers fight with Johnny Nelson is on Youtube for anyone interested, closest Nelson ever came to losing as world champion even he got floored and hurt by Sellers.

 

I had seen the Sellers-Stewart fight before, but, somehow missed Sellers-Thompson. That fight was ****ing awesome. Sellers didn't have very good defense, or much of a chin, but, man could he crack. RIP Erza!

 

Sellers trained at a gym in Winston Salem, N.C., owned by the wrestler, Big John Studd. Bert Cooper, Oliver McCall, and Tim Witherspoon were also training there and they all sparred together. I saw Sellers spar once with a guy who was at the time about 180 pounds but later became a decent heavyweight. The guy had not worked with a southpaw before and he couldn't pick up Seller's left hand so he was getting hitting a lot. That sparring session didn't last long.

 

Here's the fight for anyone that's interested. Knockdown happens at 14:15 of the video.

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Sellers was winning this fight until the knockout,Nelson barely connected 10 punches.

 

Damn, either this was an old thread or my short-term memory is failing, lol.