Burley VS heavyweights

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  1. Colonel Sanders

    Colonel Sanders Pounchin powar calculateur Full Member

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    Can someone knowledgeable enough clear up the air about Charley Burley apparently regularly taking on heavyweights.

    How many did he really fight ?
    Who were they ?
    How good were they ?
    Is the fact that he took on those heavyweights is now loosely overrated/underrated ?


    :think
     
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    in Britain this was probably more expect than anywhere else in the Boxing world during the 1920s, 30s and 40s.

    Top British middleweights and L-HWs repeatedly stretched themselves against Top HWs.
     
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  4. Colonel Sanders

    Colonel Sanders Pounchin powar calculateur Full Member

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    I see...

    again, it has been blown-out of proportion...
     
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