Ezzard Charles...top ten wins...name em'!

1. Moore 3
2. Walcott 1
3. Walcott 2
4. Burley 1
5. Marshall 2
6. Bivins 1
7. Ray 2
8. Maxim
9. Louis
10. Lesnevich

 

Ezzard Charles list of wins make me question my rating of Sugar Ray Robinson at #1.

 

In chrono order

Archie Moore I
Bivins III
Lloyd Marshall III
Elmer Ray II
Baksi
Lesnevich
Louis
Maxim IV
Rex Layne III
Holman II(he beat an elite 6'3 HW in his prime while being nearly washed)

Walcott II would be 11th.

 

too me it also shows the analysis & sentiments that Boxing Media & powerbrokers weilded, Charles, like Marshall, Walcott and obviously many many others too, but do you know how many times these men were described as 'washed' up and/or written off by Boxing Voices, who had the power of influence, which quite literally assisted or desisted some & certain fighters.

I have really been disillusioned by Boxing, not the Fighters nor the 'cough cough' sport, but the whole lying Business Managed Outcome.

Charles was some fighter, for one so washed up and often written off - was indeed a shame, GOD Bless them all.

 

Archie Moore x 3
Jimmy Bivins 2
Jimmy Bivins 3
Charley Burley 1
Charley Burley 2
Lloyd Marshall 2
Lloyd Marshall 3
JJW 2

HMs - JJW 1, Joe Louis, Elmer Ray, Gus Lesnevich, Jimmy Bivins 3, Joey Maxim x 5, Teddy Yarosz, Antonio Christorforidis, Jose Basora and Oakland Billy Smith 2.

Insane, absurdly brilliant win resume.

 

One of the Moore fights have to be the best wins, probably the third. Beating a consensus top 5 ATG for the weight class in his prime is truly rare, might not hava happened before or since. Certainly not 3 out of 3.

 

Whilst I'm the only one to have voted all 3 Moore wins, I'd go far as to say all 3 should be locks in Ezzard's top 10 wins. Moore is generally ranked either #1 or #2 all time at LHW and was prime for all 3 of Charles's wins.

Not only are all 3 of Moore's wins amongst Charles best 10, they're probably the best 3 wins he has. Wins don't get much better than beating the greatest of all time, aside from yourself, in the weight divison, during your opponents prime.

 

Depends on how you view SRR Vs Gavilan, but yeah, the Moore wins are decisive credentials.

Ezz is exactly what modernists make out Evan and Usyk to be and then some - by miles actually.

 

My reasoning for leaving them out was I was going with the 10 most dominant wins. 2 of the Moore wins were close fights. Anything where Charles got knocked down or could have lost doesn't make it.

Also Moore was still recovering from his surgery. Agewise he was in his prime but physically he wasn't there. Or at least wasn't as good as he'd be later. When comparing these two fighters while Charles was nearly a decade younger time was pretty cleanly on Moores side here. If this trilogy happens a few years later the beneficiary would be Moore.

 

Charles beat Moore by 10-0 shut out in one fight and stoppage in another fight.

 

Yes that was the one closest to his surgery. I still put it in my top 10.

The stoppage was still a close fight Moore could have won.