Best modern sized heavyweights that prime Ezzard Charles could beat?

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  1. InMemoryofJakeLamotta

    InMemoryofJakeLamotta I have defeated the great Seamus Full Member

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    What are some modern day heavyweights that prime Ezzard Charles could beat? Could he beat a guy like say, Ron Lyle or Trevor Berbick? He's likely not beating the Tyson's and Lewises of the world. But could he beat an Oliver McCall type of guy?
     
  2. Dempsey1238

    Dempsey1238 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    On Charles best day he could perhaps beat everyone from Tyson to Lewis, to Fury.
     
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  3. swagdelfadeel

    swagdelfadeel Obsessed with Boxing

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    lol
     
  4. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 Mauling Mormon’s Full Member

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    Is Liston modern sized?
     
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  5. Jackomano

    Jackomano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    This. Charles in top form was that good and had a chance against anybody. Charles wasn’t a stranger to fighting different styles and fought and beat opponents of all sizes.

    Tyson, Lewis, and Fury are great fighters, but they could definitely get decisioned or even stopped by Charles.
     
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  6. Bukkake

    Bukkake Boxing Addict Full Member

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    So you think, Charles might even stop those 3 much bigger guys? You're of course entitled to that opinion, but since you also believe Usyk would get flattened by Conn and Maxim, and actually picked Bellew to knock him out, when they met a few years back... you have lost the right to be taken seriously!
     
  7. thistle

    thistle Boxing Addict Full Member

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    since when was Fury a Great Fighter???

    Tyson Fury IS an Invested Package, a Commodity and a Guarded & Protected Investment, who has fought NO ONE and IS 3rd Rate, in terms of True Boxers, Fighters and Boxing History.

    Dear God, the people that just go with all this TV Modern, particularily British B.S (and I am British), is frightening, Boxing History and TRUE CHampions & Fighters desreve much more integrity!
     
  8. InMemoryofJakeLamotta

    InMemoryofJakeLamotta I have defeated the great Seamus Full Member

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    I'll say yes
     
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  9. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 Mauling Mormon’s Full Member

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    The difference between the ears is so vast Sonny Liston would think he’s getting sucker punched by someone else in the ring all night.
     
  10. swagdelfadeel

    swagdelfadeel Obsessed with Boxing

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    I thought I was losing my mind. :lol:
     
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  11. janitor

    janitor VIP Member Full Member

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    Charles is the kind of fighter who has a tricksters chance against anybody.

    Having said that, I don't think that he would match up well against the best super heavyweights of history.
     
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  12. JohnThomas1

    JohnThomas1 VIP Member

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    Mike Tyson would punch the living christ out of Charles as well as the rest of the light heavyweights cum heavyweights
     
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  13. Cojimar 1946

    Cojimar 1946 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Tyson's not a modern sized heavyweight though
     
  14. JohnThomas1

    JohnThomas1 VIP Member

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    You might be the most size mad poster in the world. Tyson is literally named in the OP. He's certainly a modern sized heavyweight for me if not current sized tho we have Usyk cutting a swathe thru the big "modern sized" guys you champion. Tyson would be far harder to beat than some of the oversized rumpers in the top 10.
     
  15. Bukkake

    Bukkake Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Just curious... do you think there are any pre-Liston HW champions, that Fury could beat? Or would he lose to all of them?
     
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