Francis Charles

Name: Francois Charles
Birth Name: Pierre Manasse
Hometown: Alfortville, Val-de-Marne, France
Died: 1969-01-01 (Age:71)
Height: 175cm
Pro Boxer: Record

• By 1967 Charles was alive and gave an interview to left wing newspaper "Liberation" denouncing boxing as a sport.

Started his career as a flyweight. Won French national championships as a welterweight, middleweight and as a Light heavyweight. Charles was of Hebrew heritage per The Hank Kaplan Archives. Charles like many fighters of his generation was a World War I veteran. Charles started his fighting career as a flyweight and fought in every weight class up to Light Heavyweight! Won the French National Welterweight Title in 1920 from Maurice Prunier-defeated Prunier again in 1923 for the French National Middleweight Title and Finally won the French National Light Heavyweight Title in 1925 defeating Raymond Bonnel for the title.

In the 1925 Annuaire Du Ring Annual they list a number of undated fights from 1911 and 1913 that have not been recorded into the fight record for Charles-these undated fights are from 1911-KO'd Sylvain Debere in one rd, won on points in four rds over Picot And won in six over Relinger. For 1913 the unrecorded fights are KO'd T Marcel in one rd., Bob Legendre KO'd in one rd. location Amiens, Lucas KO'd in one rd likely in early 1913 location Saint-Denis. Knocked out Verail in one rd-location Bordeaux. And one fight from 1918 has Charles defeating Chick Semler on points in ten rds.

Charles defeated 12 National Champions and/or European Champions over the course of his fighting career.