Ezzard Charles Book Pretty Good ..

Have you got the title and author for this book?

 

where is the long post i wrote about the ezzar charles book? it was a reply to a writer's comment about the book. i said i haven't seen the book yet, but there were a few things in the poster's review that were wrong. the major one was about ezzard being married to a white woman, which showed how much things changed from the joe louis years.

ezzard was not married to a white woman. his only wife was to an african american....her name was gladys gartrell. i knew her family. i went to school with her brother joe. there was another sister..her name was kitty. i spent time on their front steps when ezzard came around. ....i wrote a lot about all this and my post is too long for me to re-write it and i put a lot of effort into it. i hate to have to do it all over again. the time i entered this is listed as today, 02.44 pm. where is it?

 

Albinored,

Jack please give us all you can about Ezzard. Im halfway through this book and its amazing. The Late 1940s Prime Ezzard Charles was something special, maybe a top 3-5 fighter of all time. His knockout victory over a Prime Archie Moore in 1948 is one of the all time greatest victories, and he did it in a storybook ending finish, a finish only a great fighter could mount.

No one in history below 175lb beats a 1948 Ezzard Charles in my opinion.

 

Ive got a good story about Ezzard Charles. I may have told it here before but if I did it was a long time ago so Ill tell it again. There used to be on old former pro that lived near me. He used to walk for exercise at the local mall. He would stop into the coffee shop my ex wife worked at when we were dating and when she found out he was an ex pro she arranged for me to meet him. He showed up at the mall with his s****book. It turned out his name was Leon Thompson and he was transplanted Kentuckian who fought professionally out of Chicago and was Tony Zales sparring partner. The guy had a million great stories. One of those stories concerned Ezzard. He said that one time the Athletic Commission called all of the local fighters in for a meeting to discuss some rules changes. Leon got there a little early and had this stuff on him called "Apple Baum" that they used to use on the farm. It was kind of greasy and smelled absolutely awful he said. Well, he decided he would play a prank on someone and smeared that stuff on the inside doornob to the meeting room so that when someone was leaving they would grab that doornob on their way out and get that awful smelling stuff on their hand and stink for the rest of the day. As the fighters started to file in Ezzard Charles came in and he was HW champion at the time. He had a brand new camel hair coat, very nice and very expensive. He walked in and hung that coat on the doornob smeared with apple baum. When time for the meeting was called Ezzard grabbed his coat and went to sit down. All of the black fighters idolized Ezzard and began congregating around him and filled all of the seats immediately sorrounding him. Leon watched and very quickly they kept sniffing, getting sour faces, and looking puzzled. One by one they all got up and moved to other seats and before long Ezzard was left sitting by himself sorrounded by empty seats as the meeting went on. Leon felt terrible because he was sure he had ruined that coat.

 

Haha, that's a great story. :good

 

Nice story , really tickled me thanks for sharing

 

Whenever the ring would do rankings back in the day, the 20 greatest featherweights, 100 greatest punchers, Dettloff would write the copy. He didn't always agree with the rankings but he did a bang up job

 

Damm

Just finished it. Such a sad ending