I thought Lovejoy recently retired? There was a thread about it and all. And didn't they finally strip Charr of his somewhat regular maybe gold WBA strap, in favor of Trever "life of " Brian?
Charr is inactive for long years. Doesn't looks that he now is ranked by boxing orgs but WBA marks him as champion in recess. Maybe this is different belt? List of current boxing rankings - Wikipedia World Boxing Association Ranking – World Boxing Association (wbaboxing.com)
Not even Charr, is my guess. Dude has not fought in 3 years and we all know that if he really wanted to, he could have gotten a fight at any point.
even the corpse of Charr, an average HW when at his "peak", was at least a real professional fighter who fought other real professional fighters as opposed to cab drivers, taco stall owners etc in that hot bed of HW boxing that is Mexico. I doubt LOvejoy could beat Charr victims Konstantin Airich, Yakup Saglam, 90 yr old Michael Grant.........hell, Safety Pin Johnson would like wipe the floor with fatty Lovejoy in a couple of rounds
He wasn't top 10 but some timeframe was top 5- top 10 so not at all just average. Really decent gatekeeper in 247-252 lbs size. 34 y.o prime Povetkin needed to land on him long combo with power punches to finish him, Briedis managed to stop him easier and Klit stopped him via cut. Later looks that he had some problems with health and leg etc a like things. Not HW champ material cos he was slow but for HW gatekeeper he was not bad at all.
Fair comment, gatekeeper describes him well, kinda Kali Meehan, Danny Williams, Lou Saverese level guy