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Says you mate, I am not saying he wasn't a fabulous scientific, boxer he clearly was but no title and no shot against Zale or if I remember rightly never fought La Motta the two best MW's of Burley's time at MW. The problem with Burley and one thing I think you may have overlooked entirely is this... why wasn't Burley rated so highly then as he is now ???
Revisionism, from writer who had an axe to grind..... I think head to head les Darcy beat him, Zale and LaMotta and all other MW's from the 40's, I have very little doubt about it, he most probably knocks them out, especially if they try hitting Darcy with bombs, that wouldn't stop Darcy, he would just get serious and hit back harder and then harder even still. I use him as my example because he is usually the victim of these guys when it comes to all time MW lists and because he is the real deal, the complete boxer/fighter/puncher/infighter and outfighter.Comment
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Basically what I am saying is the in actual fact he is not "undisputed" top 20 or anything else except that he was a beautiful boxing stylist, very good defensive fighter, maybe as good a chin as Darcy, he never got knocked out and he carried a good heavy punch, yes a pretty formidable guy, but name any single middleweight with say the top 80 or 90 best MW's of all time that isn't formidable ? His record is very good, 86-12-2 is nothing to sneeze at but there are many with similar records. What also bothers me is that there are aome very good names on his resume but equally as many if not more from this time period who are not there, I mentioned two before but there are more. I will look into it further but most of it has been covered in this thread like beating a young and far from prime Archie Moore who was a late bloomer, Fritzie Zivic is one of the few white names he had on his record but I think Fritzie was well past his best and only a WW in reality.Comment
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I can tell you one thing for sure, Ezzard Charles should have been a schoolteacher because to took most boxing opponents into a school where they were shown up as such poor students that they had to "repeat" a year ........ or two or three even, some just upped and left school altogether.Comment
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By the way, I LOVE that reel of film of Mayweather getting blasted you put up there and it tells me everything I know is wrong with boxing today, especially in Mayweather fights... WHY THE %$###(*^$# is this bloody referee stepping in between the fighters and protecting Floyd from getting hit as he would have gotten repeatedly in any other era, this proves the refs are simply paid or coerced into protecting this rich FOOL at all times, it is obvious from that one small loop of film you have that the boxing game today is irredeemable, the ref saves Floyd from a KO here....... his legacy will be "the guy who f*****d boxing and made it a circus"Comment
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No serious..... Floyd is rocked bad after that punch and the ****** ref jumps in between them.... wtf ?..... is this how Floyd stays unbeaten ?... I have seen the refs part Floyd and his opponent the very instant they look like clinching especially when the opponent is superior in infighting...Floyd is a protected species..... now there is one guy Burley could have beaten every day of the weekComment
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