Charley Burley - Analyzing Genius Video

[smashup]

Thanks for reminding me. I meant to get the book.

Guys like Burley set the blueprint for textbook shots, advanced.

IMO only the HW division has changed so drastically that fighters from yesteryear couldnt survive.
But Burley would be hell with any fighter today; proof was how so many historians and boxers to this very day who were old enough to have claimed Ray Robinson didnt want no part of him. & this only piece of footage we have of him, nice the way it was edited and word-commentary.

Was it Ray R who said he was too pretty to fight Burley?

Yes,

Sugar Ray was sat ringside watching Burley fight and said exactly that when asked if he'd fight him

[Master]

Thanks for reminding me. I meant to get the book.

Guys like Burley set the blueprint for textbook shots, advanced.

IMO only the HW division has changed so drastically that fighters from yesteryear couldnt survive.
But Burley would be hell with any fighter today; proof was how so many historians and boxers to this very day who were old enough to have claimed Ray Robinson didnt want no part of him. & this only piece of footage we have of him, nice the way it was edited and word-commentary.

Was it Ray R who said he was too pretty to fight Burley?

Yes,

Sugar Ray was sat ringside watching Burley fight and said exactly that when asked if he'd fight him

Cooper would say Liston was too ugly when offered the opportunity to fight him.

[Beanflicker]

It's a shame a lot of those great black fighters didn't get their shot. Jake Lamotta talked a lot about them in his book. He wasn't in bed with the mob and protected, so he ended up having to fight a lot of them, and he said that there were unknown guys like the Murderer's Row that would have chased the champs of the time out of the ring if they got the opportunity.

[SugarBoxing]

Is there anything boxing technique related in this book?

[Max Power]

Hey @smashup,

You forgot one other fighter that ducked him too...

Billy Conn...

One of Joe Louis's <cough> "STELLAR" opponents was brave enough to fight Louis but apparently could not bare the fought of having to face Charley Burley.

How ironic!

[greynotsoold]

Hey @smashup,

You forgot one other fighter that ducked him too...

Billy Conn...

One of Joe Louis's <cough> "STELLAR" opponents was brave enough to fight Louis but apparently could not bare the fought of having to face Charley Burley.

How ironic!

By the time Burley starting making headlines as a welter, Conn was fighting lightheavies. Check the dates.

[IamInuit]

By the time Burley starting making headlines as a welter, Conn was fighting lightheavies. Check the dates.

They did challenge him though and he refused even with a sweetened pot. I hear you though. Conn was not about to risk it all in those days by getting beat by an up and comer anymore then Robinson was.