Much as I wanna say Williams... Hill is the solid favorite. Just a bit too much quickness and jab for Prince. Hill 8-4.
It’s a shame the light heavyweight unification process didn’t go through circa 1990. You had a good lineup with Virgil Hill, Prince Charles, Michael Moorer, Jeff Harding and Dennis Andries. There was talk about some of those fights happening but they never materialized. Moorer moved up to heavy. Hill clung to the WBA title lost it to Hearns then regained it for several years and the rest steadily faded out. The Andries Vs Harding Trilogy might have been the best thing to happen in that era. Those were great fights. As for Hill vs Charles, I think it would have been a close one. Virgil was the busier and better boxer but Charles could both box and punch. Safest bet is to pick Hill by decision but I probably wouldn’t put much money down on it.
Of those five, Hill, Williams, and Moorer were on one level, while Andries and Harding, while super exciting, were lower tier fighters.
Yeah I agree with that. And Dennis was already getting up there in age by 1990. But their trilogy was truly a good series of fights. I remember wanting to see an all out unification tournament. The different teams were all pointing fingers at one another for why those matches didn’t happen but I’m not even sure if it was a matter of them avoiding each other. I just think the casual boxing public didn’t know much about those guys or simply didn’t care. Hence there wasn’t much money to be made by risking the loss of a belt fragment. It’s also why Moorer went up to heavy. Far better paydays.
The first Andries-Harding fight was without question one of the all time great light heavyweight wars.
Agree. The second one was pretty good too. Dennis was taking a beating in there and Steward told him “ I’m only giving you one more round and then calling it.” So Andries went out there and forced the knockout. Classic stuff.
