Ray Patterson drops Sonny Liston in sparring

A SPARRING PARTNER LOOKS THEM OVER
(Patterson vs Liston

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Does this sound like the Cassius Clay vs Liston I fight:
"Getting rocked and being unable to land his big punch will bother Sonny. After seven or eight rounds of this frustration, he'll begin to realize time's running out and he'll lose his cool." ????

"Getting rocked and being unable to land his big punch will bother Sonny. After seven or eight rounds of this frustration, he'll begin to realize time's running out and he'll lose his cool. Even then the champion must be careful of Liston's incredible left hand. Liston's right is nothing, no more than the average fighter's. It amazed me at first, but later I heard that Liston's a converted southpaw. He does everything with the left, even catches punches. It's an effective defensive tactic, about the only one he has. His jab always lands around the temple. I've never felt a punch to equal it, and that includes Joe Louis'. It is so hard that for a week after being hit with it I was taking pills to kill the pain."

https://www.si.com/vault/1962/09/24/624848/a-sparring-partner-looks-them-over

 

I was thinking the exact same thing!

 

Like many journeymen type fighters Ben Skelton sure knew his stuff. As Longhorn said Clay did exactly what Skelton suggested was the right way to fight Liston and it worked a treat.
Cheers All.