Is Ezzard Charles a great heavyweight?

I guess it depends if your definition and criteria for great? To me he has a case for 13-15 ATG HW, even though I place him in the 16-20 range currently 18 I believe so yeah, IMO he is an ATG HW.

 

He was in his own era.

 

How is this even a question? Of course.

Maybe if he beat Alex Miteff, the situation would be more clear.

 

No, he was a lhw fighting as small cruiser

 

There was cruiserweight in Charles era? As i said he was a heavyweight in his own era. Via the greatness scheme of things this is how he is judged as a heavyweight - what achievements did he have at heavyweight in his own era. He won the title and defended it several times. Sure it wasn't the strongest era but that of course is taken into account when he is rated.

Spinks was a light heavyweight but he moved up to heavyweight and beat Holmes. He has a resume there.

Chrles has enough achievement at heavyweight to be a top 20 heavy without fail.

 

Spinks is not ranked at all at hw, he has very few fights, Charles was a lhw in his own era, the fact he was competitive against "the hws" of his era only proves that this era was a joke.

 

There were fighters over CW limit during Charles reign.

 

You are completely missing the point Charles. Via your interpretation we need to wipe Charles, Marciano and Dempsey from the history of the heavyweight division.

 

Yeah, let's completely ignore whole HW history because people decided to make another division between LHW and HW... It's just silly.

 

I am being realistic my bro. But marciano and Dempsey were naturally bigger than Charles to be fair, look at and compare their frames regardless of the weight. Plus Rocky and Dempsey only fought at hw, Charles was in his prime a lhw

 

By your definition they competed as cruisers tho. You can't have it both ways.

 

Yeah but their full careers were in the "hw" division,it is not the case of Charles

 

But like them Charles defended the lineal heavyweight crown multiple times. Despite being the GOAT 175 he still had a strong quite long career at Heavyweight.