H&G All-Time Index public fighter card
Ezzard Charles
Heavyweight · United States
Ezzard Charles ranks #38 in the H&G All-Time Index at Heavyweight, with a 89.74 All-Time Index score and a 95-25-1 professional record. His career span on this page is 1940-1959.
- All-time rank
- #38Elite Greats
- H&G All-Time Index
- 89.740-100 ranking index. This is the number that orders the list.
- Career record
- 95-25-1Professional wins, losses and draws.
- Active years
- 1940-1959
- Data Confidence
- HighDeep career evidence and a tighter peak-rating band in this release. Close ranks still need boxing judgement.
Career story
How Ezzard Charles's rating rose and fell year by year, with his peak marked.
Yearly peak-form Elo rating points. This curve is separate from the 0-100 ranking index.
Show the year-by-year numbers
| Year | Peak-form Elo rating |
|---|---|
| 1940 | 1,835 |
| 1941 | 1,868 |
| 1942 | 1,896 |
| 1943 | 1,898 |
| 1946 | 2,008 |
| 1947 | 2,009 |
| 1948 | 2,008 |
| 1949 | 1,991 |
| 1950 | 1,934 |
| 1951 | 1,910 |
| 1952 | 1,795 |
| 1953 | 1,760 |
| 1954 | 1,682 |
| 1955 | 1,595 |
| 1956 | 1,510 |
| 1958 | 1,454 |
| 1959 | 1,440 |
Why this ranking
Ezzard Charles ranks #38 with a 89.74 score on the 60-100 H&G All-Time Index. His standout win in our data is over Joe Louis in 1950, who reached a 2,122 Peak-form Elo, one of the stronger opponents on his record. In 2 cases a result was later reversed, including Jersey Joe Walcott, whom he beat once but lost to in a later fight. Our fight-by-fight records do not add up to his full public win-loss-draw total, so the head-to-head details here are a partial picture. Peak-form Elo is 2,009 (±173), separate from the 60-100 career Index.
What lifts or lowers this ranking
Bars show each weighted signal's relative size. Gold lifts the placement; grey holds it back.
How much repeat elite-year presence supports the all-time case.
Collapsed signal from peak rating, sustained rating and same-era separation.
How much the record is helped by wins over contemporaneous title-level opponents.
A narrow signal for lineal, explicit undisputed or major multi-belt class control in this release data; it is not a full title history.
How much major title evidence supports the rating.
Same-era separation left after the shared peak and sustained rating signal is removed.
Compare and explore
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Top fights
The highest-ranked fighters Ezzard Charles actually faced, biggest names first. Each one opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Joe Louis#4 · Index 97 · 1950
- Archie Moore#16 · Index 93 · 1946, 1947, 1948
- Rocky Marciano#54 · Index 88 · 1954
- Harold Johnson#104 · Index 84 · 1953
- Ken Overlin#243 · Index 79 · 1941, 1942
- Jimmy Bivins#258 · Index 79 · 1943, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1952
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- Gus Lesnevich#289 · Index 78 · 1949
- Teddy Yarosz#302 · Index 78 · 1941
- Lloyd Marshall#424 · Index 76 · 1943, 1946, 1947
- Jersey Joe Walcott#503 · Index 75 · 1949, 1951, 1952
- Charley Burley#625 · Index 74 · 1942
- Harry Matthews#632 · Index 74 · 1956
Ranked-vs-ranked bouts from the pinned fight archive, ordered by opponent ranking. An objective record of who they shared a ring with.
Great rivals he never fought
Ranked fighters who shared a recognised division and whose competitive careers overlapped, with no bout between them on record. Each name opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Sugar Ray Robinson#6 · Super Middleweight / Light Heavyweight · 11 overlapping years (1949-1959)
- Billy Conn#52 · Super Middleweight / Light Heavyweight / Cruiserweight / Heavyweight · 7 overlapping years (1942-1948)
- Floyd Patterson#64 · Super Middleweight / Light Heavyweight / Cruiserweight / Heavyweight · 8 overlapping years (1952-1959)
- Gene Fullmer#85 · Super Middleweight · 9 overlapping years (1951-1959)
- Sonny Liston#89 · Heavyweight · 7 overlapping years (1953-1959)
- Fred Apostoli#98 · Light Heavyweight · 7 overlapping years (1942-1948)
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- Dick Tiger#150 · Light Heavyweight · 8 overlapping years (1952-1959)
- Bobo Olson#160 · Super Middleweight / Light Heavyweight / Cruiserweight · 14 overlapping years (1946-1959)
- Marcel Cerdan#162 · Super Middleweight · 8 overlapping years (1942-1949)
- Jake LaMotta#241 · Super Middleweight / Light Heavyweight · 13 overlapping years (1942-1954)
- Melio Bettina#368 · Light Heavyweight / Heavyweight · 7 overlapping years (1942-1948)
- Paul Pender#401 · Super Middleweight · 11 overlapping years (1949-1959)
Shared recognised division, overlapping competitive years, no recorded bout between them. A measured pattern only.
Linked style profile
8-axis style breakdown
Ezzard Charles also has a reviewed style profile with radar scores, study notes and diagnostic comparisons.
About this rating
Rankings: H&G All-Time Index v2.0.0. Reflects fights up to , the most recent on record. The ratings are fixed to that point, so fights after it are not yet included.
The rating itself is built from the 101 bouts we hold full data for from 1942 to 1959, which is why this count differs from the professional record above.
For the data-minded
Peak-form Elo rating: 2,009 (peak dated 1947-02-01). This best-point rating sits on its own scale and is not directly comparable with the 0-100 index.
The peak estimate carries an uncertainty band of about ±173 Elo, so read close comparisons with care.