The Cincinatti Cobra. Career record 93-25-1. Sounds competent journeymanish, right? Weeeeeeeell, maybe not. Like a lot of guys he hung on too long. At 33 he was ruined in back to back fights with Rocky Marciano. After that he went 10-13.

Ezzard went 21-7-1 against HOFers from 160-heavyweight. Think about that for a second. Almost 30 fights with eight HOFers and he won 75% of them. Awesome.

But for some more context? In a time when only 88 fighters were ranked (as opposed to the 187 ranked today)? Ezzard defeated them on forty occasions. FORTY!

Against that level of competition? He recorded over 50 KO's.

Ezzard also lost a total of 30 months while he was 22-24 to WWII service. In other words he lost almost as much time in his career as Muhammad Ali did in his.

Finally Ezzard is seen as a mediocre heavyweight champion. Maybe he was. But in his 13 month reign? He defended eight times against six ranked guys.

Now THAT is what an extraordinary resume looks like.