Liston didn't fight Johansson. Post the quotes from Machen where he said Williams hit harder than Ingo. You mentioned them earllier when you called me a liar.
Richardson fouled out to Williams to save himself from being ko'd. So because Williams ko's over guys like Alonzo Johnson are not on You Tube they don't count? lol Cleveland Williams, the 3rd ranking heavyweight, knocked out Roger Rischer of Oakland, Calif., in 1:46 of the 3rd round Tuesday night. Rischer, the 9th ranking heavy, fought his larger foe on even terms in the 1st round of the scheduled 10 rounder. But in the 2nd Williams, the Houston native, clobbered Rischer with a succession of left hooks to the head. Rischer went down for a nine count. The decisive blow came halfway through the 3rd round. It was a hard right to the head." -Associated Press
Jim Watt headbutted Sean O'Grady. That doesn't mean he was trying to save himself from being KOed. Guys intentionally and unintentionally headbutt in hard fights. It's part of the game. Williams didn't knock him out. Didn't outpoint him. Williams got repeatedly headbutted and it was stopped. Ingo knocked him out. And fights don't have be on YouTube to count. Post some footage of Williams knocking any ranked contender out. Knocking out Alonzo Johnson isn't that impressive ... not like brutally KOed the #1 contender or dropping the world champ seven times and stopping him to become champ ... but at least it would be something. There plenty of social media outlets you can use. Post a clip.
Williams pulled out of the Richardson rematch just hours before the fight. He claimed that voices in his head told him to. Strange guy.
Great. Post a clip of Williams knocking out the GREAT Roger Rischer. I can't wait to see an example of Cleveland's GREAT POWER with my own eyes. Let us know where you post it.
Fella I'm in the UK, I know what happened. "Cleveland Williams of the U.S. defeated Dick Richardson in their scheduled 10 round bout tonight when the Welsh boxer was disqualified in the 4th round for butting. In the 1st round the Welshman forced the Yank to back away from a flurry of blows. After that, Williams took charge. He floored Richardson for a count of two in the 1st round just after the Welsh boxer drew his first warning for butting. Blood ran from a gash on Williams' cheek as he sat in his corner between the 1st and 2nd rounds. He rocked Richardson with a left to the jaw in the 2nd and halted a Richardson flurry with two uppercuts in the 3rd. The American's cheek began bleeding again after Richardson was warned for butting. Then came the 4th and Richardson butted himself right out of the fight." -United Press Referee Frank Wilson had warned Richardson in the 1st, 3rd and 4th rounds before finally DQ'ing him N.B.Johnson had never been stopped.
None of us need to be from the UK to read Boxrec, which is where you got that. Williams didn't knock out Richardson. Ingo did. Williams didn't knock out Machen. Ingo did. Those were their common opponents.
You ask a question ,and then when its is answered you change the gaol posts again,its a recurring pattern that Swag commented on.I never said Rischer was great , I said he was top ten ranked which he was. You asked for an example and I provided one ,now you have gone off on another tangent.Devious or what?
Just trying to refocus the discussion on Johansson and Williams. You and that other clown can't even admit Ingo knocked out the only two common opponents he shared with Williams ... and can't admit Ingo brutalized Machen ... just say it was a bad ref. Still waiting for you or that other clown to post the quote from Machen saying Williams hit harder than Ingo. Until then, I'm done with you two. Ingo beats Williams. Lots of guys beat Williams.
My point was he would have knocked him out ,and quicker than Ingo did,but the Welshman fouled out to save himself from a ko.If I gave a **** about your opinion I would go up in the loft and locate the Boxing News weekly edition which reported the fight ,but I don't ,so I won't. Fella , you are a bad joke that I'm sorry I've wasted so much time on.
Even in the description you posted, it doesn't say Cleveland Williams was on the verge of stopping Richardson but Richardson fouled out to save himself. Based on the description you provided, Richardson was busting Williams to shreds with his head and Williams was the one in bad shape when the fight was called with all the cuts. Some guys foul as a means to win. That's what they do. Wepner could've been disqualified every time he stepped in the ring. Some foul as a means to get out of a fight, as the recent Kownacki-Helenius fight showed when Robert dominated him. But Williams sounded like the guy in bad shape from cuts when the fight was stopped from all the headbutts. Not the other way around.
Of course he didn't. The only time Johansson weighed anything like 206 was when he came in overweight for the final Patterson fight. He was consistently between 195 and 200.
He was between 200-206 lbs in 10 of his 28 or so fights, including Patterson 3 which was his career heaviest and one of his best performances, losing effort or not. Ingo was 195 for one match in his peak years and 206 for one match in his peak years. What's the difference? If you want to exclude Ingo's 206 as being an overweight abnormality at that time you have to exclude Big Cats 215 against Liston for the same reason. Not that it matters. I feel a 195 lb Ingo would knock out Big Cat at any weight he wants to come in out. My point was that depending on the timing, Big Cat may not even have a substantial weight or power advantage.
Cleveland Big Cat Williams claimed that a few nights before the scheduled rematch against Richardson, he had a horrific nightmare that he had killed D. Richardson in the ring, so he pulled out of the fight for fear that that nightmare could come true.