Ralph Charles

{{short description|English boxer (born 1943)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Use British English|date=June 2015}} {{Infobox boxer |name=Ralph Charles |image= |realname= |nickname= |weight=light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight |height={{height|ft=5|in=7}} |reach= |nationality=English |birth_date={{birth date and age|1943|02|05|df=y}} |birth_place=England |death_date= |death_place= |style=Orthodox |total=43 |wins=39 (KO 33) |losses=4 (KO 3) |draws= |no contests= |medaltemplates= }} '''Ralph Charles''' (born 5 February 1943) is an English amateur welterweight and professional light welter/welter/light middle/middleweight boxer of the 1960s and '70s who as an amateur won the Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) 1959 Junior Class-A title against Kenneth "Ken"/"Kenny" J. Cooper [http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=31274&cat=boxer] (Warley ABC),<ref name="1959 ABAE National Championship">{{cite web|url=http://www.abae.co.uk/aba/index.cfm/boxers/roll-of-honour/junior/1950-1959/1959/|archive-url=https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20120416144527/http://www.abae.co.uk/aba/index.cfm/boxers/roll-of-honour/junior/1950-1959/1959/|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 April 2012|title=1959 ABAE National Championship|publisher=abae.co.uk|date=31 December 2012|accessdate=1 January 2013}}</ref> boxing out of West Ham Boys & ABC, won the Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) 1960 Junior Class-B title against J. Harwood (National Association of Boys Clubs),<ref name="1960 ABAE National Championship">{{cite web|url=http://www.abae.co.uk/aba/index.cfm/boxers/roll-of-honour/junior/1960-1969/1960/|title=1960 ABAE National Championship|publisher=abae.co.uk|date=31 December 2012|accessdate=1 January 2013}}</ref> boxing out of West Ham Boys & ABC, and was runner-up for the 1963 Amateur Boxing Association of England welterweight title, against Johnny Pritchett (Bingham & District ABC),<ref name="1963 76th ABAE National Championship">{{cite web|url=http://www.abae.co.uk/aba/index.cfm/boxers/roll-of-honour/elite-abae-championship/1980-19891/1963/|title=1963 76th ABAE National Championship|publisher=abae.co.uk|date=31 December 2012|accessdate=1 January 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130822110156/http://www.abae.co.uk/aba/index.cfm/boxers/roll-of-honour/elite-abae-championship/1980-19891/1963/|archivedate=22 August 2013}}</ref> boxing out of West Ham ABC, and as a professional won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) Southern Area welterweight title, BBBofC British welterweight title, European Boxing Union (EBU) welterweight title, and Commonwealth welterweight title, and was a challenger for the World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight title, and World Boxing Association (WBA) World welterweight title against José Nápoles, his professional fighting weight varied from {{convert|140|lb|kg stlb||abbr=on}}, i.e. light welterweight to {{convert|157|lb|kg stlb||abbr=on}}, i.e. middleweight.<ref name="Statistics at boxrec.com">{{cite web|url=http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=12563&cat=boxer|title=Statistics at boxrec.com|publisher=boxrec.com|date=31 December 2013|accessdate=1 January 2013}}</ref>

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==External links== *{{Boxrec|id=12563}} *[http://static.boxrec.com/3/34/Ralph_Charles1.jpg Image - Ralph Charles]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Charles, Ralph}} Category:1943 births Category:English male boxers Category:Middleweight boxers Category:Light-middleweight boxers Category:Light-welterweight boxers Category:Living people Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:Boxers from London Category:Welterweight boxers