Ralph Charles

{{short description|English boxer}}

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|total=43

|wins=39 (KO 33)

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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),{{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}} 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),{{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}} 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),{{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|df=dmy-all}} 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.{{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}}