#OnThisDay in 1917 the fighter who was too good for his own good, Charley Burley, was born in Bessemer, Pittsburgh. For years he was more or less a forgotten man – now he's rightly respected as one of the finest boxers of his or any other time. A classy, economical boxer who knew how to feint an opponent into making mistakes and then punish him. He was one of a group of avoided black fighters in the 1940s – Holman Williams, Eddie Booker, Jimmy Bivins, Lloyd Marshall, Elmer Ray and others – and Burley was a genuine master of his craft. He was inconsistent, temperamental, but in nearly 100 fights, nobody ever knocked him out. When Burley outpointed future light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore over ten rounds in 1944, Moore was knocked down four times. "Burley gave me a boxing lesson," he said. "He kept his punches coming at you like a riveting gun beats a tattoo on a rivet." Moore was to say later: "He was the best fighter I ever fought, and the best fighter I ever saw." #boxing #BoxingNews #BoxingHistory #CharleyBurley (at Bessemer, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnYrIeBhtkQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fkou1n0uhahk