Manuel Charr: B level OR C level fighter?

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  1. Aydamn

    Aydamn Dillian Da Dissappointment Full Member

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    One of the worst fighters ever

    F-
     
  2. POTUS

    POTUS Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Good enough for Vitz
     
  3. northpaw

    northpaw Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Definitely C-minus level.

    1. How is he a champion but would likely lose to the majority of guys in the top 15?
    1a. His most recent losses include 2 guys not even ranked in the top 15, one not even ranked at HW.
    2. How is he a "defending" champion but hasn't fought in 3 years?
    3. How is his mandatory a fighter that hasn't fought in 6 years?

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  4. Italian Stallion

    Italian Stallion Active Member Full Member

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    Do you think the following heavyweights were also C-level: Francesco Damiani, John Tate, Frank Bruno, Sergei Liakhovich, Bruce Seldon?
     
  5. Eggman

    Eggman "The cream of the crop! Nobody does it better! Full Member

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    I wonder if crippled haye could actually beat him if the fight came off

    close one
     
  6. eltirado

    eltirado Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Shot Charr vs Shot Holy, potentially a great fight

    Due to his ATG status, Holyfield is the favorite to regain his WBA belt
     
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  7. Big Ukrainian

    Big Ukrainian Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    All of them were clearly better than Charr
     
  8. Italian Stallion

    Italian Stallion Active Member Full Member

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    Would you rate the five guys I mentioned as C-level and Charr borderline D-level?
     
  9. eltirado

    eltirado Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    They were clearly better than prime Charr, but if we shot all of them....how many of them will be able to comeback and win the WBA Regular Heavyweight championship belt, there is a Vinny Pazesque element to Charr accomplishment
     
  10. Italian Stallion

    Italian Stallion Active Member Full Member

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    So it's safe to call all of them (Charr Damiani, Tate, Bruno, Liakhovich, Seldon) C/D boxers who weren't very good?
     
  11. eltirado

    eltirado Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Not sure what C/D is....but those folks are definitely Elite humans who are dimensions above 99.999% of plain average people, so using C or D implies we are giving (E/F = average tough guy)

    As of Charr current ability, would be nice to test him vs current Holyfield, Fully healed Toe Haye
     
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  12. Stallion

    Stallion Son of Rome Full Member

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    He's from Lebanon, it's not all Arabs there. Might be a Phoenician :smoking:
     
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  13. eltirado

    eltirado Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    He is from the ISIS-Kurdish contested region in Anatolia.

    Those folks are a mix of many people, but they identify as Turk or Arab or Kurd or German depending on their self-identification, a big percentage of the Lebanese in Germany are second step migrants from that region.
     
  14. Stallion

    Stallion Son of Rome Full Member

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    Wikipedia says that he's born in Beirut, Lebanon. The true coastal Lebanese are not Arab. But the same Wiki page also says that his nationalities are Syrian and German so you might be right.
     
  15. eltirado

    eltirado Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Possibly...

    Identity in the middle east is based on religion/superstition, its not as genetic/tribal as Europe or Africa.

    Maybe you can relate to Italy better...

    The true people of Eastern Sicily are Greeks, but then lots of people showed up & the result is the 19th century "Italian Americans" who immigrated because they were discriminated against by the mainland Italy dominated by the Piedmont deep state, who found themselves giving up their mainland in return of complete control over largely feudal Peasantry in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. It was all done in the name of progress & modernization, the effect was amplified in Eastern Sicily, because the traditionally Anti-Greek Sicilians of Palermo paid their taxes of their eastern portion of the island, the poor abused East Sicilians, then took the ships out to start a new life in the new world...

    ...So the the stories in the North vary, but in Lombardy

    The true people of Lombardy are Celts, after a short lived Pax-Romana, Germans made it their seasonal R&R for 1000 years of German Holy-Romanization, So you see, way back then, uh, North Italians were like, uh, wogs from Southern Italy. Ah, they all had dark hair and dark eyes, but, uh, well, then the Krauts moved in there, and uh, well, they changed the whole country. They did so much walkin' with North Italian women, huh? That they changed the whole bloodline forever. That's why dark hair and dark eyes became light hair and blue eyes. You know, it's absolutely amazing to me to think that to this day, hundreds of years later, that, uh, that North Italians still carry that German gene. Now this