Charley Burley should have been in the list and IMHO should be higher om the P4P list of all time greats. When you are as good as he was and you get ducked by everyone in your timeframe including Sugar Ray Robinson. How can someone fight from welterweight to heavyweight and not ever get a title shot. To me he has a better resume than Henry Armstrong because atleast armstrong got a shot at the title and he wasnt ducked by Jake Lamotta, billy conn, marcel cerdan and many others. Take a look at his record and you will see the list of fighter around the same time frame who wouldnt fight him.
Charley Burley should have been in the list and IMHO should be higher om the P4P list of all time greats. When you are as good as he was and you get ducked by everyone in your timeframe including Sugar Ray Robinson. How can someone fight from welterweight to heavyweight and not ever get a title shot. To me he has a better resume than Henry Armstrong because atleast armstrong got a shot at the title and he wasnt ducked by Jake Lamotta, billy conn, marcel cerdan and many others. Take a look at his record and you will see the list of fighter around the same time frame who wouldnt fight him.
What about Eddie Booker, Harry Wills, Jimmy Bivins and the rest of BMR ?, they're all the most feared boxers of the 40s - 50s.
Robinson wasn't ducking Burley, he didn't even have any title when they was supposed to fight, and the money wasn't enough for Robinson so he declined the offer.
Burley said he would of done the same thing. (< from what i've seen from different people on here saying he did )
Why would a Middleweight Burley want to move down to Welter to fight a contender anyway, doesn't make any sense.
Armstrong couldn't of got a title shot at those boxers because he was in a different era and weightclass to them.. (Conn was a LHW)
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