prime ezzard charles vs prime sonny liston?

Cute statistic. Of course, when Charles was actually 43 fights into his career he had 4 losses and a draw on his record. But we're going to ignore those and pretend that his career started when he was 25, and then carefully snip it short just before he was knocked cold by a 37 year old opponent.

 

Pretty transparent isn't it.

 

Chokelab thinks Charles was in his prime for Marciano I

 

I love it when chokelab the troll is exposed

 

Before spreading your usual garbage, why don’t you actually do some research for once


The United Press scorecard had it 5-4-1 for Ray

Here is the description from the Middlesboro Daily News account:

"The gallery gods went into ranting hysterics last night when the burly negro who once wrestled alligators for a living smashed the myth which was Ezzard Charles. The boxing bigwigs, who had been grooming Charles for a fight with Joe Louis, laughed. Once more they had given Joe Louis, the heavyweight champion, an excuse to dodge the violent one. For from 10 rows back it looked like Charles all the way. He danced and jabbed and landed a lot on Ray's bobbing pate and Elmer's busy elbows. But inside 10 rows you could see the devastation wrought by Ray's jarring hooks, blasts which raised the sheaf of Ezzard's cheek. “No holding,” was the continual admonition of referee Eddie Joseph. But Ezzard, of the winged retreating feet, had to hold for his life, and in doing so he made of Elmer Ray a modern Sam Langford."


According to the Nevada State Journal,

"Ezzard had clicked off 15 straight victories since he received his discharge from the army 18 months ago, including nine knockouts, but he was unable to overcome his heavier and more experienced opponent, and he was unable to score a single knock-down against rugged Ray, who kept marching in, bobbing and weaving and throwing hooks to body and head. Although Ray admits to 36, which would make him at least ten years older than his opponent, it was Ray who finished stronger in the 10th round and thereby apparently wrapped up the bout by a close margin."



Charls knocked out ray in the rematch, by this point ray was 37 years old.