senya..indeed i am aware of charles getting knocked down so many times in his fights with marshal and bivins. i am also aware of how many times...
..charles rose to the top of one of the great periods for light heavyweights....archie moore, jimmy bivins, lloyd marshall, charlie burley (a...
..amsterdam....not THAT excellent!!!:nut
...well..maybe one comment. i think prime jones was an excellent fighter.
..i saw charles in his prime and i've seen jones in his prime, so i'll just let my statement stand without further comment.
.......all of the charles by ko posts are correct, especially if the pre-baroudi charles was in there. post baroudi....jones might go the fifteen...
.. a well trained witherspoon catching louis on an off night might make it as far as seven rounds. a well trained spoon on a good louis night...
..even a Charles fanatic like myself conceded, as I watched it live on theatre pay-per-view that Marciano won that first fight. The difference...
..Prime Charles was about 171...a little to small...but the still great Charles at 180 would beat Marciano.
..I'm assuming that those who don't have Ezzard Charles on their lists is because the are considering him as a heavyweight. Fair enough. I'm...
..Ezzard Charles, Joe Louis, Willie Pep, Sugar Ray Robinson, Harold Johnson,Archie Moore, James Toney (when he was in shape) Tommy...
I thought I posted this already. Guess not. top 20: 1. Ezzard Charles 2. Archie Moore 3 through 20...a bunch of other guys tied.
To use Patterson's beating Chuvalo shows that he could have beaten Liston is like saying Saddler's beating Pep proves he could have beaten Jake...