Ralph Charles
Ralph Charles 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 1959 Junior Class-A title against Kenneth "Ken"/"Kenny" J. Cooper , boxing out of West Ham Boys & ABC, won the Amateur Boxing Association of England 1960 Junior Class-B title against J. Harwood, boxing out of West Ham Boys & ABC, and was runner-up for the 1963 Amateur Boxing Association of England welterweight title, against Johnny Pritchett, boxing out of West Ham ABC, and as a professional won the British Boxing Board of Control Southern Area welterweight title, BBBofC British welterweight title, European Boxing Union welterweight title, and Commonwealth welterweight title, and was a challenger for the World Boxing Council welterweight title, and World Boxing Association World welterweight title against José Nápoles, his professional fighting weight varied from, i.e. light welterweight to, i.e. middleweight.
