So when I'm not training I spend most of my time watching old fight films and old school training footage for fun. This match up just came to mind was I watched Joe Louis fight Ezzard and Galento. Joe and Ezzard we're both smart boxers,great jabs and were the aggressors when needed. Galento was an awkward unorthodox fighter with not much going for him but a mean left hook. No question that Ezzard would win but its open for discussion :bbb
It would be quite a long tough fight but I think Ezzard would break Galento down, have him cut up and groggy, and stop him late in a 15-round.
Strangely enough, I think Charles might make a better fist of Galento than Louis did, but I can't explain why? Maybe its in the foot work? Galento may make me eat my words if he gets that left in as Walcott did ,but Walcott was a pin point sniper. Galento had serious power but he was a bludgeon to Walcott's black jack.
He would make Al Gainer's butchering of Galento his blueprint. Charles doesn't have Gainer's power, so it would take him a bit longer. But destroy Galento he would.
Never seen Film of that fight (if it exists) But Charles had plenty power he just sorta carried his opponents more after he killed that guy.
He was. Never fell out of the top 10 during the entire decade of the 1930s, which says a lot considering the depth the division had during that era. I wrote about Gainer-Galento in the first few paragraphs here: http://www.thesweetscience.com/news/articles/17026-a-left-hook-that-rings-for-the-ambulance
Thank you...But I've already read that! I thought it was excellent and enjoyed it. I was stumbling around the net and came upon an old poster of Gainer...then saw he had fought Galento...then I found your article. I had dropped a note about it in some thread awhile back...Cheers Surf!:good
