I always enjoyed watching brewer, his fight with echols was a classic, he only had 13 amature fights winning ten and was trained by boggalo wats. thoughts?
Well I always liked his nickname, The Hatchett. He was an entertaining fighter, and so was Echols thats why they made such a great fight. He was a good solid middleweight fighter that won the title, nothing special but a good boxer puncher.
he was supermiddleweight not middle, but did box as a middle early on, but best work was at supermiddle. For guy who wasnt expected to do nothing after loseing twice in a row both stoppage losses he done really well had a good career becomeing world champion and beating british legend herol graham who was comeing off some solid wins going into that fight. I heard he got his belt robbed of him in germany, then got robbed in the rematch. Any one seen the fights in germany against the guy who wouldnt step foot out of germany? :good
His showing against a still dangerous Graham was impressive, he was knocked down/stunned multiple times but just kept going at Herol until he caught him. His shootout with Echols was indeed one of the most exciting fights of the past few years. I remember Echols going down three times in round two... He got the benefit of the doubt even though he was damn near out on his feet. The stoppage was a bit premature considering the chance Echols was given to recover.
Big puncher with a vulnerable chin. I thought he won at least one of those fights with Ottke. He was supposed to be past his prime when he finally got a shot at Calzaghe, but he did have a pretty decent "comeback" win over Scott Pemberton after that.
I know he was a super middle. He also fought a guy who wouldnt step foot out of the UK. That fight had Calzahge really showcasing how much of a slapper he was, and for a while I wasnt too sure he would ever be able to win against the better fighters.
LOL, the Bomber was shot to pieces, he used smoke screens and mirrors to bluff his way to almost causing the upset. Brewer should get no credit for that fight, Herol was just different gravy... Brewer was a fun fighter, but a mere footnote in a young division.
You mean Ottke? Yeah, I did. The first fight was a close one. Could have gone either way. BUT that was due to Ottke knewing he already had won and doing **** in the second half of the fight - his corner always knew the scores. In the second fight Brewer got schooled.
Sven Ottke is going to be on the ballot for the IBHOF. He is, but Eddie Booker ain't... Charles Brewer was on a comeback of sorts back in November 1994 and he signed to fight a fighter who was my best friend growing up, Rodney "The Punisher" Toney. Rodney was a few years older than me, but was a masher in his youth as a streetfighter. He actually taught me to box when I was about 12. Anyway, the place was rough and our group of friends was inter-racial -which was a no-no back then and of course provoked a lot of less heterogenous gangs, be they black, Puerto Rican, or Irish. This was before the crack epidemic and the guns that came with it in the 80s so we'd all fight on the up-and-up. And we were all boxers. Anyway, Rodney was knocking grown men out cold on the pavement with one shot by the time he was 14, 15 years old. One night was really bad. There were 25 or 30 guys who came up in vans. We were adolescents. I remember he had his back to a car in a parking lot and they formed a half-circle around him and one by one these guys would step forward. He'd line up that right and BAP! -down they'd go in a heap; one by one they'd be dragged off before the next guy stepped forward. Rodney was going through generations. The last guy must have been a grandfather because after his sons and grandsons got laid out, he came in, the right dinged him and his dentures went flying across the parking lot. Anyway, Rodney Toney became a professional fighter and was invited down to Campo, CA to join Terry Norris's camp, which he did. On the night he fought Charles Brewer, the whole neighborhood showed up at Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut and the fight was on ESPN -Friday Night Fights I think. Toney put him down with a jab in the first round and it was an excellent see-saw battle for the length of it. Rodney Toney's best win of a once-promising career. This content is protected ^ That's from his second to last bout, in '06. On the right. Toney is a trainer now down at "The Ring" gym on Commonwealth Ave in Boston. (...Excuse my nostalgia.)
Brewer-Pemberton is an underrated scrap. Brawls with skills always make for the best action, in my opinion.
