"Prince" Charles Williams - Highlight Reel and Appreciation Thread

Used footage from every fight of his I could find for this one- 14 in total. It really is a shame that despite having a near six-year reign with his title, there's so few fights recorded or up for us to watch now. Just imagine if Charles had better people in his corner, management or otherwise... Now that'd be something.

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His hands were extremely fast for his size... He didn't throw these long, complex combinations, but he could throw very sharp, exact punches on the inside at frightening speeds. All of those punches would put you on the canvas if you didn't see em coming- And sometimes, even if you DID see em coming. It's definitely impressive that amongst the 14 fights we have footage of, Williams knocked down his opponents 7 times (maybe more cause I haven't watched the full Winbush fight, terrible quality and very boring) through all of em. I thought that knocking down Kinchen was pretty impressive.

 

It definitely seemed like the fight that made him who he was. He had ripped a good win over the unbeaten Anthony Witherspoon at the time, but still, I don't think anybody expected a 12-3-2 guy to do this well against a then 2 time LHW champion. He was mostly dominated against Johnson, but he still was able to land some pretty good combinations and sneaky right hands in-between it all.

The run he had up till the loss to Maske (who he would've dominated had he kept himself busier) was pretty great, though I do think he was on the winning end of sketchy decisions before he won the title... I scored the Salerno fight in favor of James- He looked very out of it that fight. But, all things considered, that 20 fight win streak had pretty good names attached to it.

Jeff Lampkin
James Salerno (sketchy decision, but still)
Bobby Czyz x2
Swindell
Kinchen
Delgado
Etc.

I don't think he did that bad at Super Middle (he actually performed quite well against Toney), but it was still a very bad decision for the end of his career. I feel like he could've beaten Maske had he ran it back, and he would've been a hard fight for most guys at the weight had he just taken a different fight rather than Toney. Imagine he faced Liles or Nunn at the time rather than James- He would've had a better chance.

 

I thought that Williams - Moorer would've been a real firefight... Every time that I see that possible unification match get brought up, I see most people say that Michael would win one-sidedly, but I really can't see it that way. Charles was a lot more proven at LHW and definitely much more experienced compared to Moorer at the time, not to mention that he seemed to have the better chin between the two of em, and could recover better when put in danger. I feel like Williams would've been put down early, but would come back around the middle rounds to stop Moorer for good.

 

Yeah. It's good to have guys like Sims or Williams for highlight reels cause it's real easy to match songs to em, but it ain't always that easy. Like "El Poema" Antonio Avelar... What the hell am I supposed to do with that?