Ezzard Charles - Counter-Punching Excellence 

Thank you for masterfully covering on of my favorite fighters again! Excellent music choice as well as usual.

@@tylerross9706 Hanzagod’s best highlight alongside Matthew Saad Muhammad imo

@@raz_nick4048 Bob Foster was a great light heavyweight you have to throw him in there too

@haNZAgod Can you do a highlight video on Legendary Blind Boxer Gypsy Joe Harris... the guy is really underrated, he's known as a masterful defensive boxer with only 1 loss to Emile Griffith who was completely blind in both eyes throughout his career.

@@joshuahall1581 Doubt it. There's barely any footage if memory serves me right

Respect Antonio Mosley.

@@THEDONSTR8Fightah76 And respect to you too.

​​@@THEDONSTR8Fightah76 It's a shame Charles had ALS in 1951 if not earlier.

Well, he did win a non-title fight against Archie Moore. So I consider Charles an unofficial 3 weight division champ. He was the Amatuer Middleweight Champion, beat the Light Heavyweight Champion and a 2 time Heavyweight Champion. Even in his losses,Charles gave tough, competitive fights. I really think some of his losses came from fighting too often and weight cutting to Light Heavyweight sometimes on short notice. I think that alone added some losses on his record that could have been wins. Still, with victories against Joe Louis, Archie Moore, Joe Walcott, Jimmy Bivins, Rex Layne and Joey Maxim, as well as going the distance with Rocky Marciano 1 fight and nearly getting a TKO on Rocky the 2nd fight, I truly believe Charles is an underrated legend that should be talked about more.

​@azraelknightquest5754 Most definitely. Ezzard Charles is one if not the most skillee fighter at Middleweight or Light-heavyweight Only one who I can see being more skilled at Middleweight is Marvin Hagler.

I wouldn’t say so tbh. To me it’s more like a truly great boxer having absolute phenomenal bouts with all time greats.

​@dennit1221 No he is right...their Greatness was overshadowed....especially after beating Walcott twice and no recognition?....he even beat Charle Barley...and was a ww2 hero....they throughly disrespected this man...dude is top 10

@@Dragoncannon4easily top 10 greatest LHW by far destroyed Archie Moore 3 times.

@surveying482 Exactly they thoroughly disrespected...probably because he was very intelligent....he even spoke Italian...he did beat Archie Moore 3 times....destroyed many legends....I even think about him when train.. I won alot of sparring because of him...with shoulder rolling

Also WW2 he was unable to fight for any titles as the titles were frozen, so rather than having a dozen or title fights he had very few

That makes sense

Or just how old James Toney is lol

@@pandabear1576 his trainer who taught him how to box was from the Ezzard Charles era not sure if he knew him personally but they were all in the game together back in the day & he showed toney old videos

Holyfield follows his style too.

Sugar Ray Vs Ezzard Charles would have been great

@@JWashington754Charles would’ve been too big for him.

@@Faren_ That makes sense

P4p your bugging

​@JWashington754 this is a even crazier take as the original comment

That’s what I was thinking, he moves and counters like a modern day boxer, it’s incredible and beautiful, when you realise that he fought in 40s and 50s.

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@@hanzagod i was so sad when i discovered that there were no videos, i'm a huge fan of both

3rd fight when Archie Moore hurts Charles. Charles suddenly turned the table around to knockout Moore back.

He must be, a middleweight winning the heavyweight title is surely a p4p great

​@@Suplex479James Toney

@@skippylegrandgourou777 he never won a title in heavyweight, he challenged twice

It’s crazy that he stayed in the pocket of much larger and stronger men like Louis and Walcott and still beat them both

All were old but rocky relax buddy

He is not been HW.

Heavyweight division was small back then

@@surveying482 Primo Carnera would like a word with you. And Charles wasn't a natural heavyweight he was naturally a Middle who moved to Heavyweight.

@@surveying482 People still got killed by Heavyweight Punching Power.

Ezzard was way past his best when he met rocky who was a punching bag

@@surveying482 Yeah, but a punching bag that moved awkwardly, was always looking for a way inside and threw an incredible number of punches, most of them power shots (an average of 67 per round against Charles). Rocky was a boxer who got hit a lot, sure, a bum he was not! I feel all those great boxers (Charles, Walcott, Moore) will never get the credit they deserve, if we don't start admitting to ourselves how good Marciano was. And God knows that can be difficult for a fan of the sweet science.

​@@surveying482 Have u forget that ali was a punching bag as well? ali been hit 29000 times to the head only during his entire career way more than rocky u disowned many great boxers just to not admit rocky marciano is 1 of the greatest heavyweights in history the only undefeated heavyweight in HISTORY no one else could achieve this so far what a GREAT boxer marciano was the likes of fraizer louis evander mike wouldn't be able to lace his boots now go watch basketball boxing ain't for u 🤡

he’s the greatest light heavyweight ever so i don’t think timing was a problem lol, he beat every body at light heavyweight

@user-bd7si1yn6s Beat Archie Moore 3x man he was truly an all time great. So many of his best years aren't on film.

@@Cj-qk7il Ezzard Charles was actually a middleweight but moved up in weight because he couldn't get a shot at the title. Racism and corruption.

Beat Moore 3 times beat Charley Burley 2 times, Joey Maxim 5 times and Jersey Joe Walcott 2 times and many other good fighters along the way he fought the best and the rest.

Can't argue with that.

Respectfully he is top 10 all time but he isn’t in the same sentence as Ali and SRR stop the madness

@@surveying482 tbf u did say goat lhw so yeah and lhw is my personal fav division

@@surveying482 he really is if you study his resume, but I don’t see any issues in having Ray above Charles.

Agree. In a way hard to take it seriously these days with what it's become.

IKR???? This generation of Boxers are COLLECTIVELY SOFT AS SILLY PUTTY!!!

Sounds about right to me!

Agree 💯👍👍

Has to be.

They didn’t call him the Cincinnati Cobra for nothin’ He is my favorite boxer of all time!

@@raz_nick4048 yea I know they called him the Cincinnati Cobra....he moves like a snake...like Kobe Bryant moved like a Black mamba....4 me I pick Sugar Ray Robinson as P4P

1. Langford 2. Greb 3. Robinson 4. Armstrong 5. Charles

Middleweight or Light Heavyweight. He was ducked so much. Probably would of been higher in the pfp list.

@@antoniomosley9410 he's top 3 as it is.

@@cheetoyeeto1232 No he's below Langford, Greb, Robinson, Armstrong and a few others. He's would of easily been higher if he was allowed for title shots doing his time in both Middleweight and Light Heavyweight divisions.

@Piri Reis Charles beat Moore three times

@@brocksimmons345 And beat Burley twice. And Burley schooled a prime Moore. That's scary.

There is no recordings.

In everybody book

I’m new to boxing why is this?

@@Henryjohn22 he is one of the pound for pound grates of all time for all time

@@Henryjohn22 has one of the greatest resumes and at his best one of the most skilled boxers ever.

@Piri Reis you saw greb fight? Any footage you can spare bro?

@Piri Reis I would have Archie Moore 7th and Pep would probably in the top 15 or 20. I can't be bothered to do a list outside top 10 as it would keep on changing all the time.

Funny how you brought up these two legends!!! I believe that somewhere along the line if Ezzard had lived, he would have been more than happy SIGN ON AND TEACH EVANDER "THE TRICKS OF THE SMOOTH SCIENCE!!"

Bruce Lee studied Footwork of Jersey Joe Walcott too.

Lee was influenced by Ezzard "Intercept Moves."

@@freddy8479 source?

@@hammad9091 I wouldn't be surprised considering Bruce's own boxing background.

There's not really anything else I can highlight of him. Offense and defense covered.

I don't rate Murata if I'm honest but the Canizales and Inoue highlight could be interesting it's been quite a while since my last fantasy fight vid too.

​@@hanzagod Yes, at least the fantasy fight will come !! ANyway, your channel is awesome, i learned a lot. many thanks !!

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Good thanks! How are you

@@hanzagod do you know what happened with reznick? Did hi comeback?

@@hanzagod to be honest with you,i feel myself lonely

@@user-ew9cc6ip9n Same. We are together on this

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Holmes

Larry. Size would count in that fight. Holmes is underrated as a heavyweight.

Ward would get outclassed

You’re not serious are you

Ezzard would beat the hell out of Ward!

Any stories you can share, please. I'm a big Ezzard Charles fan

@miguelyarturo oh no Sir I really don't know any. They just said they remember he would run a lot and be jabbing and swinging his fists. He was a teenager then I guess. They said he was very polite and nice whenever they talked to him. But I thought it was pretty awesome that they just acted like " OH Ezzard? " of course we knew him. Lol

How do you see prime Charles canelo going at 175?

​@kingdomofanimaria That would be a interesting fight. Canelo would try to walk down Ezzard Charles but since Ezzard Charles faced men with similar styles he wouldn't be easy to tag.

Charles takes his head off. Too big too strong. Canelo has no experience dealing with that kind of fighter. None at all. Bivol beat him. Bivol would get trashed by Charles.@@antoniomosley9410

Everyone's too terrified of having a loss on their record and they only fight once a year as well. Far cry from previous eras where they were hungry. An example is how many non title bouts Roberto Duran had during his reign as lightweight champion. He defended his title on average twice a year over the six years but also had another 22 non title bouts in that time as well.

Yes Golovkin Beats him. He was tough but Charles does not have the physical atributes that a modern elite athlete possesses. Prime G is way too fast & powerful. An over the hill Golovkin bullied two young light heavyweights (fight night) in Jacobs and Murata.

He has a 74% win rate

@@treacheroustrouser4652 I mean how he lost to and why like how Duran lost because he was old same with ali

Ended up fighting way past his best years and actually had symptoms of ALS while fighting which later lead to his death.

@@treacheroustrouser4652 he fought way past his prime, way past, and the competition was MUCH MUCH tougher in his era. And a zero loss was not as important as the Mayweather era. The fighters of that are did not pick their opponent, the ref and the judges. Ezzard was a blown up MW where he was at his best. These days young fans have been indoctrinated by the mediocre fighters of today who inexplicably call themselves GOAT. The case is strong for Ezzars and Robinson as the best pound for pound.

Most of them came either when he was inexperienced or when he was past his prime

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