Sonny liston is overrated.

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  1. Spreadeagle

    Spreadeagle Active Member Full Member

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    Couldn't agree more Sir.
     
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  2. SonnyListon>

    SonnyListon> #1 Sonny Liston fan Full Member

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    Where the hell did you hear this from???
     
  3. Pugguy

    Pugguy Ingo, The Thinking Man’s GOAT Full Member

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    So, you’re actually advertising yourself as a courageous keyboard warrior who has no quit in him?

    Mad as a cut snake. :lol::lol::lol:
     
  4. BoxingFan2002

    BoxingFan2002 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Still better than you...you write so much to look smart, but at the end of they...you look just stupid ha ha.
     
  5. Spreadeagle

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    Actually it's quite well documented mate.Just for ease of reference you can put the subject under a general
    heading such as '' Ali and Liston became friends '' in the search bar.There will be various sources confirming this.
    What is really obvious is just how highly Muhammad Ali rated Sonny Liston.
     
  6. BoxingFan2002

    BoxingFan2002 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Again not true, toughest fights in first Ali career were 3 fights and those 3 were against Chuvalo, Cooper and Doug Jones.
    Frazier gave Ali also helluva fight despite being blind, one handed and had high blood pressure.
    Patterson injury was as bad or even worse because fighter with no back is not a fighter but a cripple trying to fight and despite all that Patterson was not stopped and showed heart unlike your hero Sonny.

    Against bum twice his size and lost, against Ali he cheated by blinding him and quitting twice, I would take over what he did with that small journeyman bum.
     
  7. BoxingFan2002

    BoxingFan2002 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    So many backgrounds for Sonny Liston as a excuses why he quits or cheated in that fight?
     
  8. JohnThomas1

    JohnThomas1 VIP Member

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    How did they keep the glove on his right stump? Little wonder he had a quiet right "punch", it was his rear stump and sported about a 20 inch reach.

    At 408 pounds even a bum is going to take some beating.

    DUMBO!!!!!!!

    That right of Frazier has him stumped!!!!!!

    Hahahahahahaha
     
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  9. BoxingFan2002

    BoxingFan2002 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    35 pounds to be clear and the man was nobody yet you still praise Liston like he went life and death with king kong.
    Also when you mention that he has a heart because went distance with him why he did not had a heart to went life and death with Ali without trying to blind him.
     
  10. JohnThomas1

    JohnThomas1 VIP Member

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    Just when one thought things could not get any DUMBER!

    English please.
     
  11. BoxingFan2002

    BoxingFan2002 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Not English but Dumbish should be right language to talk with you.
     
  12. JohnThomas1

    JohnThomas1 VIP Member

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  13. Spreadeagle

    Spreadeagle Active Member Full Member

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    I repeat......are you wiifully refusing to read the back story to Muhammad Ali vs Liston.I suspect you know
    the conditions that Liston had to endure but because of your warped anti-Liston agenda you refuse to
    acknowledge the truth.
     
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  14. Spreadeagle

    Spreadeagle Active Member Full Member

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    Muhammad Ali himself said Liston was his toughest fight.Hey,but what the hell does Ali know ?
    Wow,so from personal experience,or indeed from your vast medical knowledge, how do you know that Patterson's back condition was significantly worse than Liston's afflicted shoulders ? Oh do tell !
    I'm trying to make sense of the very muddled mish-mash that was your last sentence.Who exactly was this bum twice the size of Liston ?
     
  15. My dinner with Conteh

    My dinner with Conteh Tending Bepi Ros' grave again Full Member

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    Ali also said Frazier was his toughest fight and toughest opponent. So, in these situations, what I would do is watch all their fights and then come to the conclusion that Frazier was the more likely answer.