ATG Middleweight Chin Tier list-The Top Forty

Are you talking about the first fight or the second, and if the first, the fourth round or the last?

 

He was down to one knee against Charles on a right hand; , he was then hit with another right hand while on the deck. Still, he was up for a no-count or a three-count depending on who you like. This was as hurt as i've heard of Burley being.

 

He was more hurt in the final round based on everything I have. The worst reports of the fourth round have Burley "hanging on" to Charles, but they also have Charles "hanging on" to Burley in the seventh. It just means holding I think.

The worst Burley was hurt in his career was against Charles and was in the first fight IMO but it was in round ten on that downed punch. And he was fine.

 

Yeah, that's the old Post-Gazette entry that used to sit in the Boxrec entry, I don't think it's there anymore for some reason. There were two Post-Gazette entries and the one you posted there was from Al Abrams. It's very much the minority report though. The other report in the Gazette has Burley "holding on". The Cincinnati paper in attendance was The Enquirer - it makes no special mention of the fourth at all. The Sun-Telegraph makes no special mention of the fourth either but has Charles hurting Burley in the "second, third and fourth rounds" although most have Burley winning the third and being hurt by a right hand to the mouth in the first. The Ring makes no special mention of the fourth, just the tenth.

The Abrams report in the Gazette has had a lot of legs. Fight City recently mentioned Burley as nearly knocked out in the fourth without even mentioning the report, like it's a fact. But nobody else who was at the fight agreed so far as I can see, though I haven't seen the Pittsburgh Press report in years. If five reports have the fourth as nothing special, and one writer has one of the fighters as nearly knocked out, I know what i'm making of that. That might be unfair on Charles because maybe Al saw something everyone else missed, but there it is for what it's worth.

 

That's bad. I wish at the very least they would carry the others. Still, it's the most descriptive and colorful so I suppose it is inevitable.

 

One other little thing, the writers can't agree on whether the punch that hurt Burley in the tenth was a left or a right. I'm actually inclined to believe it was a left based upon this re-read today but there's no way to say really. It just feels unlike even young Charles to double the right hand on Burley for the second shot while he's down whereas a left-hook right-hand is to be believed. According to Otty there were shouts for Charles to be thrown out, but Burley kind of negated them by bouncing back so quickly. That only would have resulted in a third fight though and I just don't think Burley would ever have beaten Charles. Still, if a fighter is going to have your number, might as well be Ezzard.