Ezzard Charles - Counter-Punching Excellence
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Ezzard Charles - Was an American professional boxer and World Heavyweight Champion. Known for his slick defense and precision, he is often considered the greatest light heavyweight boxer of all time. Charles defeated numerous Hall of Fame fighters in three different weight classes. Charles retired with a record of 95 wins, 25 losses and 1 draw. He was posthumously inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in the inaugural class of 1990.
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One of the greatest P4P boxers of all time! Ezzard Charles has one of the best resume's in history along with one of the top overall skill sets I've ever seen. In addition to all of his other great assets, his counter-punching was superb so that's what I wanted to focus this highlight on. The Cincinnati Cobra at his best! www.patreon.com/haNZAgod
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
Scariest thing Charles counter punching abilities is that it's he can counter to head or body with either hand at any given time and both do damage. I'm not surprised that from Middleweight to Light Heavyweight he was ducked by the champions.
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.
Ezzard suffered by coming immediately after Joe Louis just as Larry Holmes coming after Ali. Their greatness was overshadowed.
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
Arguably the P4P goat. The guy was amazing! He was the definition of the old school boxer.
"Make 'em miss, make 'em pay."
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
This was James toney idol !!! that alone tells you how skilled he was
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.
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His trainer was Bill Miller.
One could not expect more from a professional boxer. Mr. Charles had it all in terms of all-around boxing skills. He was a good standard bearer for the boxing profession as he was also a truly fine human being.
His counterpucnhing was rather unorthdox yet deadly effective. He's definetly in my top 5 P4P boxers of all time. Great video as always
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
Man how do people like Ezzard Charles exist. He looks like a modern day boxer, so creative and fluid with his counters. Also incredible track for this montage, you'd never expect to hear Bonobo on a boxing highlight reel xD
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.
Louis, Charles, Walcott and Marciano...what a time for the HW division, awesome fights anyway they were matched. Sublime, stylish, thumping, sometimes inspiring and always thrilling. Of that haughty class, Charles is arguably the cream of the crop...and that is high praise indeed. Legends all.
All were old but rocky relax buddy
He is not been HW.
It's really a pity that we cannot watch the two matches between Ezzard Charles and Archie Moore, that's school of boxing
3!
@@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.
brutal counters and perfect timing. Amazing
What an incredibly skilled boxer. Decent chin and amazing heart, too! Watching this, I was surprised once more about the kind of bombs he landed on Marciano. If the latter hadn't had the arguably best chin in boxing history, Ezzard would have ruled the heavyweight division like Louis before him - at under 190 pounds! Tells you all you need to know. Great fighter! Thanks for the highlights!
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 🤡
Ezzard was definitely an underrated fighter. He fell between Joe Louis later years and Rocky Marciano. Timing is a lot in boxing and in a different time he could have been talked about with the greats. He did beat Joe Louis, although well past his prime, and gave Rocky all he could handle. His style was such that he could be competitive in any era. A really tremendous fighter.
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.
in his prime he was one of the GOATs
At 185 pounds this man was a reigning heavyweight champion !!!
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.
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People still got killed by Heavyweight Punching Power.
Excellent vide, Ezzard Charles was very skilled. Ezzard Charles the Greatest light heavy of all time
I see Ezzard Charles in James Toneys blueprint.
It's mind blowing how technicall and skilled fighter were in the 30's and 40's with some agression and fearless they put the fondation of the modern boxing in my opinion they were better than any era expect the 70's I don't know?.
I rate Ezzard Charles as the 5th greatest fighter ever pound for pound; I consider him to be the greatest light heavyweight who ever lived.
Sounds about right to me!
The Cincinnati cobra
The way he smothered punches amd then threw his own reminds me a lot of bud
This is definitely been one of my top channels for many years!
Great video highlighting an underrated legend and master of his craft
This is the best highlight video of one of the p4p greats Ezzard Charles i have seen showcasing all of his skills great work hanzagod 👍🏽.
Another stellar video! And rightly before Thanksgiving too!
Ezzard Charles's ability to roll and slip off of punching FORM built-in defense is something often overlooked. In my P4P top 10 for a reason!
His kind of punches we're great a different angle but they work you're correct he was 100%. Nice 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
The best fighter ever imo
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.
The best left hook I hve ever seen in boxing . This guy was pure class
god man no one else could be like him
All of these great warriors are probably turning over in their graves seeing what boxing has become. A parade of Divas fighting sub-par competition and yelling their the best fighter in the world. It's disgusting!
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!!!
I live your vids @hanza but they make me so sad at the same time..
What a phenomenal era of outstanding athletes :’(
Great video on Ezzard Charles' great counter-punching style.
Beautiful boxing
Genius speaks for itself. Tough ,tough dude. I love the homage videos, and I am glad to see the best of Ezzard Charles.
TY haNZA.
Great shoulder roll...unorthodox snake like style defense
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
i've waited so long for a new ezzard charles edit. thank you.
Thank you for the nice higlight! pure happiness to watch!
🥊Excellent Highlights ‼️
Brilliant highlight.
Amazing skill with deadly accuracy in how he connected with his punches.
A world class boxer without question.
The great Ezzard Charles, RIP
You know my feelings about Charles. THE MOST UNDERRATED fighter in history. An obscene resume and a list of great victims a mile long. What he would do today! I can tell you one thing for sure. alvaroids would have stayed the Hell out of the light heavyweight division if this MAN was there wiating.
Goat🐐.
I have
1.Robinson
2. Armstrong
3. Greb
4. Charles
5. Tunney
1. Langford
2. Greb
3. Robinson
4. Armstrong
5. Charles
Legend
He beat rocky in that first fight. Hate the narrative that he just started hot and ran Marciano close. Nah. He literally destroyed and schooled rocky in that first fight.
Another excellent video, haNZA, could you by any chance do a video on Eddie Hopson?
Can you do a video on the 3 great Mexican boxers of the 2000s barrera, morales, Márquez put together
you have made several outstanding videos. but i think this might be my favourite one. the music choice with the black and white footage just gives it such an amazing eerie feeling, plus the fact that this focus on counter puching makes it even better. and charles also helped, he is one of my favourite fighters. besides having skill out of this world and nerver dodging and cherry picking, he just had such swagger and poise in the ring, he always looks so cool and composed. plus the way he moved and threw punches was simply stylish. anyways superb video, big props hanza
You always been a real one, hanza but i fuck with Bonobo super heavy. Excellent song choice sir. I absolutely love this album!!
Great boxer, great man, true warrior and the legend. RIP The Cincinnati Cobra.
tremendous work!
Best vision attribute in boxing history.
0:51 that was a peach of a left hook!! On the button and the lights go out!
What a boxer sublime
Top 3 P4P goat
Nice video hanza. Reminded me of the Ssndy Sadler video from the past
Greatest light heavyweight ever
Agree 💯👍👍
Has to be.
One of the greatest boxers ever with great win over Archie Moore and Charley burley. He also went up to heavyweight beating Joe Louis, Jerseys Joe Walcott and going the distance with Rocky Marciano in a very close fight.
I have him the 5th greatest of all time
1. Sam Langford
2. Harry Greb
3. Sugar Ray Robinson
4. Henry Armstrong
5. Ezzard Charles
@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.
This is great.....love the old fighters
A " Jazz Boxer " .... fantastic pace and graceful
Beautiful. What a masterful boxer
My Respect.
Amazing fighter
It’s crazy that he never won a world title at light heavyweight, he’s easily the best ever in that division
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.
True ATG.
Absolutely amazing UNDERRATED fighter!
Look at evander holyfield after moving to Heavyweight. The two looked alike and he had the same aggression.
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!!"
this is the stuff
Til this day. I can't find a video of Charles vs Moore. They fought 3 times
There is no recordings.
In my book the #1 P4P boxer in history
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?
He beats young Archie Moore 3 times.
He is the only fighter to reach 15th Round with Rocky.
Edward Charles was a bad dude, a real fighter
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Ezzard was the definition of Bruce Lee's quote of fearing a fighter who practiced a move 1000 times. His main move was to catch his opponents jab with his right and then shoot a counter right off of that. A very simple move, but one he perfected.
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.
Dangerous all the time. Would hit you hard even moving backwards.
Footwork 🐾💪🏽
Whats fhe music, can you say by chance?
Bonobo - Silver
How are you doing Hanza?everything is okay?
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
One of the few guys to go 15 rounds with rocky and he nearly beat him in both their fights
In the first he got a close decision loss and on the second he caused a huge cut by spotting rockys nose in half and if they had made it to the next round rocky might’ve been retired in his corner and Charles would’ve been the first man to beat rocky
Tap the shoulder of the sleeping monster has they call him to battle
Самый великий непризнанный боксер
Here's a thought. Bring back same day weigh ins. You think GGG could beat this man because he'd have to fight him with same day weighins? What about Bob Foster or the Mongoose? These modern-day fighters have no idea what it was like. So many more fights against such elite competition. Less weight classes, one belt per division = real world champions. Not the crap we see today. Match up Spence and Crawford with Carlos Monzon, Ray Robinson, Fullmer etc. I just don't see them doing so great.
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.
Cincinnati Cobra
can you make other highlight video of eduardo lausse?
There's not really anything else I can highlight of him. Offense and defense covered.
Ezzard Charles vs Larry Holmes who winning
Holmes
Larry. Size would count in that fight. Holmes is underrated as a heavyweight.
What's the instrumental? This one of my favorites
Bonobo - Silver
Could you make 2 videos ? One ryota murata routes to the body and the other a fantasy fight orlando canizales vs naoya inoue.
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 !!
👀Andre Ward vs Ezzard Charles 👀
Ward would get outclassed
You’re not serious are you
Ezzard would beat the hell out of Ward!
Lead hooks to head as if they were liver shots.
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My Parents knew Ezzard Charles when he was a teenager.
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
Ezzard Charles fought on too long and lost a lot of fights near the end of his boxing career. In his prime he was excellent. He defeated Archie Moore 3 times when he was a light heavyweight.
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Decent music this time keep doing that 💯 Ezzard Charles greatest LHW of all time it isn’t close 3-0 on Archie Moore.
U ever looked at ring ratings 160 lbs 1940s the best boxers ie Charley burley Ezzard Charles etc never won or got a shot at the title Bert lytell Aaron wade etc all in the top 10 from around 1940-9 only Holman Williams i think got a shot was probably robbed vs cerdan who knows
How come he has 25 losses?
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
Great boxer but showed a lack of boxing IQ against Marciano when he chose to fight him on the inside instead of the stick and move tactic.
He lost to young jack johnson but i had wish charles fought cleve williams
As incredible as Ezzard's speed, power, and timing was, his ring smarts was equally as impressive. He knew what his opponent was gonna do before he did.