School me on Eddie Chambers

Chambers seemed to have good natural skills, but his lack of size, power and, just by the looks of him over the years, his overall dedication to being in athletic shape, killed his chances at being more.

 

Wasted talent could have been so much better. Needed someone to teach him how to sit down on his punches more. Very skilled defensively

 

Good hand speed. That's about it.
His lack of footwork hurt him at his size. He used to square up and ride punches with a high guard and a slight lean back. Then he would throw some quick shots in return. It worked ok with fighters of his own height. This was a dumb strategy in an era of giants.
He didn't have enough power, and not enough stamina/punch volume to make up for that lack of power.
His dedication was very questionable too, as he was another one of the numerous fat "little" guys of that era. He often did just enough to be in a fight, but never enough to dominate.
He was a world class fighter, but a very mediocre world class fighter if that makes any sense. Basically, he was no Chris Byrd

 

Too small for HW, not skilled enough for CW.

 

Good heavyweight but a bit undersized for his era, and he was mentioned for a jump to cruiser for quite some time before he finally did.
But by then it was too late, as cruiser rose to big heights with lots of quality fighters, and he already lost a step.

 

He was difficult to beat on Fight Night Champion, legacy mode.

 

Joshua believes him to be a disgrace to his race

 

He was garbage and knows nothing about boxing.

 

Hello from the future, IB!

 

I still think now and then of the alternate timeline wherein he doesn't, to borrow a Lampleyism, "dispense with the jab" at the halfway mark and consequently snatches Sasha Povetkin's zero. How differently would both their career trajectories have gone?! Maybe a lot, maybe not. Fun to chew over, though.

 

IIRC he was a round away from having cleanly swept the first half. Just needed to not do exactly what he proceeded to do (shat the bed the rest of the way). All-time choke job, maybe the biggest in that HW era next to Liakhovich's heartbreaking last-minute collapse versus Briggs.

 

And Dimentrenko.

 

Delete.

 

Different poster; that was @BlackCloud