Charlie Burley was a myth, undeserving of fighting the great Sugar Ray Robinson. Burley has only came to prominence in the last 20yrs since trainer Eddie Futch claimed him to be a great fighter. Over the last few years i have read every fighter who ever laced on gloves was afraid to fight him, all made up crap from some book a relative of Burley's has wrote. Mike Casey a boxing historian, has some very good articles in circulation on the web, telling how Burley was nothing to write home about. There is video footage available of Burley and it's laughable to claim Robinson was afraid to fight him.
well put. I won't say Burley is a bad fighter but watching the limited videos available and reading fight reports from the era as well as articles about the man at the time, there was nothing to suggest he was one of the greatest ever or that he was the uncrowned best. cos he wasn't.
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