A fight between these two would be fight of the year material. Although these two warriors fought at Heavyweight they would have been fighting at Cruiserweight with todays weights. It's hard to pick a winner biut I'd pick Charles with a late TKO.

You've got Patterson with speed and power and Charles who was a consumate boxer with serious power also.

Imagine having Moore, Marciano and Dempsey in this weight class also??? That's some 'hectic' sh*t right there!

Tough one to pick Charles tended to keep his hands a bit low which cause him problems with someone of the speed and power of patterson, but on the other hand charles was a great boxer who had very good power him self, I would say either a mid round KO for Charles or a close UD for Patterson.