At the foundation's opening fundraiser August 15, Charles saw the sculpture for the first time. "It's a wonderful thing," said Charles, who lives in Illinois.

WINTON PLACE, Ohio (WKRC) - Ezzard Charles' son and namesake saw the full-body sculpture of his father for the first time Thursday evening. "I think it's very accurate, and it's a wonderful ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC)- Andrew VanSickle was walking along Ezzard Charles Drive with his dog in 2014 when some kids from the area asked him about the dog. After a bit, he then asked them what they knew ...

Ezzard Charles was a professional boxer and World Heavyweight Champion from 1949 to 1951. A longtime Cincinnatian, Charles was also an entrepreneur, musician, multi-linguist and a good-will ...

Charles was diagnosed with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, in 1966. He died in 1973. A year later, his hometown named Ezzard Charles Drive in his honor.

The city renamed Lincoln Park Drive as Ezzard Charles Drive in 1976, a year after his death. In 2015, Cincinnati’s ArtWorks installed a mural depicting Charles near Republic and Liberty streets ...

Police are on scene of a crash with reported injuries on south I-75 Tuesday morning. Crews have blocked the ramp from south I-75 to Western Avenue and the Ezzard Charles area.

They incessantly booed him, and it only got worse after he defeated Louis for the heavyweight title in 1950, writes Bill Dettloff in his new book, "Ezzard Charles: A Boxing Life." ...

When Negro Heavyweight Ezzard Charles was a young boy in Cincinnati, he wanted to be a fighter like gentlemanly Joe Palooka; later his hero was Joe Louis. The trouble with Ezzard when he finally ...

And pencil-mustached Ezzard Charles, though heavyweight champion of the world (National Boxing Association version, not good in New York or London), has neither heavy punch nor box-office drawing ...

When finished, the statue of Ezzard Charles will stand eight-feet tall upon a five-foot, granite pedestal in the West End's Laurel Park.