Ezzard Charles. How good was he?

[eli porter]

Can anyone explain to me his achievements as to be so highly rated by some on here? And also, any technical insights you might have that also make him so looked up to.


I'll just leave this here.

[Obama]

He's one of the few guys you could rate in the top 20 of MW, LHW, and HW. And you can rate him as #1 at LHW. He beat great fighters in each division. Thus he's great...

[sonnyboyx2]

Charles was Very Good

[Tiozzo]

Charles was Very Good

talk about an understatement... you're a joke

[Tiozzo]

He's one of the few guys you could rate in the top 20 of MW, LHW, and HW. And you can rate him as #1 at LHW. He beat great fighters in each division. Thus he's great...

that's what make him so great

that's a rare accomplishment, to remain great in all the weight classes you go through

Charles beat the likes of Yarosz, Burley, Maxim, Moore, Bivins, E. Ray, Walcott, Louis, some of them he beat multiples times

[StarshipTrooper]

He's one of the few guys you could rate in the top 20 of MW, LHW, and HW. And you can rate him as #1 at LHW. He beat great fighters in each division. Thus he's great...

Sweeping a multi-fight series against the legendary Archie Moore is sufficient grounds for greatness in and of itself.

Poet

[Die Antwoord]

Would be KO1'ed by any top Heavyweight today. Sure he beat a 55 year old Joe Louis, and he beat Jersey Joe, but so did losing record fighter Johnny Allen. Tiger Jack Fox also beat Jersey Joe...not to be confused with Tiger Red Fox or any of the other Tigers Jersey Joe Walcott fought. No way is he a top 100 HW. What were his accomplishments at HW? Beating an old Joe Louis?

Ezzard Charles lost to Young Jack Johnson, imagine what would have happened if he had to face Actual Jack Johnson.

[StarshipTrooper]

Would be KO1'ed by any top Heavyweight today. Sure he beat a 55 year old Joe Louis, and he beat Jersey Joe, but so did losing record fighter Johnny Allen. Tiger Jack Fox also beat Jersey Joe...not to be confused with Tiger Red Fox or any of the other Tigers Jersey Joe Walcott fought. No way is he a top 100 HW. What were his accomplishments at HW? Beating an old Joe Louis?

Ezzard Charles lost to Young Jack Johnson, imagine what would have happened if he had to face Actual Jack Johnson.

Another example of troll posting that could be deleted.

Poet

[sonnyboyx2]

talk about an understatement... you're a joke

so i am a joke in your opinion because i claim Ezzard Charles was a "Very Good"Fighter eh....

Maybe it's you who is the joker and is upset because i called into question your exaggerated comments about Jimmy Young in another thread where you claimed Young was Robbed against Muhammad Ali.. you come across to me as someone who never actually watches the fights.

[Tiozzo]

so i am a joke in your opinion because i claim Ezzard Charles was a "Very Good"Fighter eh....

Maybe it's you who is the joker and is upset because i called into question your exaggerated comments about Jimmy Young in another thread where you claimed Young was Robbed against Muhammad Ali.. you come across to me as someone who never actually watches the fights.

as I said, you're a joke because you posted an understatement

to say Ezzard Charles, who is largely considered to be the best LHW of AT and who is highly ranked in 3 weight classes, to say that man was ''very good'', this is like saying Albert Einstein was very intelligent

you would have been better off not posting at all in this thread

and you have been exposed in that other thread (not the first time you get exposed either)

I never ever talk about fights I haven't seen