outboxes him like spinks, does a lot of facial damage, stops him
he also went 12 with a 175 pound ghost of mike mccallum who didnt go into any kind shell when he chased jones all around that ring all night. his...
theres an inverse to that argument: guys today dont fight as much but since they dont fight as much that means too that they dont lose as much,...
jones had a stretch at 175 where he was getting wins but turning in some very regular looking preformances against highly overmatched men, guys...
fair points
burley was a bigger puncher too but i think we over categorize fighters and the differences are not as great as we like to make it. its not as...
i was using that just as a way to show what kind of talent charles had. it was just an artifact to say that charles was great, and i couldnt...
6'0 is a good height too
how so
i've not seen enough of overlin to say
it does say something about charles and what class of fighter he was. i wanted to think about a middleweight who could switch careers with charles...
i like hagler but not against charles. there are not many middleweights who could move up and fight guys like walcott, satterfield, bivins, and...
it tells me how high you rate hagler
charles if he had stayed at the weight, we might be calling him the best middleweight ever, and possibly the best pound for pound boxer ever,...
i think a lot of guys beat haglers middleweights. i think mike mccallum would have dominated the era. i think burley would. i think many guys would.
