The Greatest Light Heavyweight: Gene Tunney or Ezzard Charles?

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  1. Superheavyweight

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  2. Sweet Pea

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    Charles had the far better resume and generally faced the tougher opposition throughout his LHW career, while Tunney missed out on a lot of the top black fighters of his era. Charles ranks as the #1 LHW of all time for me.
     
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  3. Terrible Terry

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    Ezzard Charles is the greatest light heavy ever, hands down.
     
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  4. the cobra

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    Charles is a clear cut #1 at Lightheavy, Tunney is not 2nd IMO.
     
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  5. catasyou

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    Ezzard Charles was the best LHW ever
     
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  6. wooz

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    Michael Spinks. :think
     
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  7. Minotauro

    Minotauro Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Charles his resume at the weight is unparallel. I have Moore and Langford higher then Tunney at 175lbs.
     
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  8. Superheavyweight

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    H2H would have been a Яeverse Schooling IMO.
     
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  9. Sweet Pea

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    Meaning?
     
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  10. RealIzm

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    Ezzard Charles, and its not really close
     
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  11. Superheavyweight

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    Meaning we are gonna be able to test our theories soon... lists will and should unify.
     
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  12. TommyV

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    Ezzard Charles.

    Done.

    Easy.
     
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  13. OBCboxer

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    Ezzard Charles. Enough said. Though never earning the Light Heavy belt, his resume is far better than Tunney.

    Charles' five best wins at the weight: Archie Moore, Bivins, Burley, Maxim, Lloyd Marshall.

    Tunney's five best at the weight: Lee Houck, Battling Levinsky, Harry Greb, Carpentier, Jeff Smith.

    Do you see the difference? Charles has the far better resume hands down.
     
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  14. the cobra

    the cobra Awesomeizationism! Full Member

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    ^^^^

    Both Burley wins were at 160lbs.
     
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  15. OBCboxer

    OBCboxer Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Oh sorry, I didn't see that. But my point was made. Thanks for pointing that out though. I guess you can substitute that with Baroudi who was a solid fighter. Shame what happend to him, it was said Ezzard was never the same after that.
     
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