Where do you rank sonny liston?

Discussion in 'Classic Boxing Forum' started by SonnyListon>, May 14, 2024.


Where do you rank sonny liston

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  1. Spreadeagle

    Spreadeagle Active Member Full Member

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    This is utter drivel.Kindly refer to my previous posts on these issues and educate yourself.
    Thank you.
     
  2. BoxingFan2002

    BoxingFan2002 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    We are since Dempsey fought to survive and for food while Liston was a thug that used to beat people for mob.
    Dempsey also didn't have any fighting experience before he turned pro unlike Liston.
     
  3. BoxingFan2002

    BoxingFan2002 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Didn't exist?
    It exists even now in some states who are borders with Mexico, but in late 1890 after civil war it was even harder than in time when Liston grew up 40 years later.

    Dempsey was native american mixed with Irish descent, what made you think that he was less discriminated than Listom especially because he was skinny small kid.
     
  4. BoxingFan2002

    BoxingFan2002 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Your post is nonsense and not a single argument that is valid.

    The man was a bum, deal with that.
     
  5. swagdelfadeel

    swagdelfadeel Obsessed with Boxing

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    How the **** is this guy still here?
     
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  6. Noel857

    Noel857 I Am Duran Full Member

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    Agree i have been a member of this forun now for 5 years and he must be one of the worst posters i have come across
     
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  7. SonnyListon>

    SonnyListon> #1 Sonny Liston fan Full Member

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    My former theory prevails, he’s an android and anytime Listons name is mentioned he reactivates.
     
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  8. swagdelfadeel

    swagdelfadeel Obsessed with Boxing

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    He's been permabanned off THREE different accounts (and he admitted to being those accounts) and is now bypassing a permaban with another account. Bypassing a temporary ban with an alt is grounds for a permaban...... but I guess bypassing a permaban with an alt is A-OK.

    :lol:

    What the **** are these mods doing?
     
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  9. Jakub79

    Jakub79 Active Member Full Member

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    speculations about how long the Wild West existed just to argue that Liston was not an outstanding HW is a manifestation of extreme stupidity and desperation. I really don't know if you realize how stupid it is or if you're just having fun, but I don't think you'll convince anyone of your point, unless you're actually a troll who enjoys pointless discussions :)
     
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  10. cross_trainer

    cross_trainer Liston was good, but no "Tire Iron" Jones Full Member

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    Quite low. Sonny's rough life, marginalized status, physical gifts, and criminal history made boxing a natural career path for him.

    Sonny may not have even become a heavyweight boxer if he'd been saddled with Calvin Brock's middle class upbringing and less impressive physical abilities relative to his time period. Let alone somebody like Ingo, who had to become a boxer in an egalitarian welfare state.
     
  11. Spreadeagle

    Spreadeagle Active Member Full Member

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    If you wish to categorize men like Marty Marshall as a '' bum '' then that's entirely up to you.
    Of course it does make you look like a complete idiot but of course that is your right.
    Mind how you go.
     
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  12. Spreadeagle

    Spreadeagle Active Member Full Member

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    Your observations on the '' Wild West '' are so outrageously stupid that I'm becoming more
    convinced that you are a troll.

    Please read some American history.Then compare the lot of a black man growing up in
    pre civil-rights America compared to a white man ( albeit a poor one ) growing up in the
    last 5 years of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century.

    Sonny Liston was abused by brutal father who whipped him so severly that Sonny's back
    was permanently scarred.Dempsey had the securiy of being raised in a convential,ordinary family.
    If you persist in maintaining that Dempsey had a harder life than Liston then I can only conclude
    that you are extremely stupid or you are a troll.
     
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  13. Spreadeagle

    Spreadeagle Active Member Full Member

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    So you are saying that before he turned pro Dempsey '' fought to survive and for food ''.You then
    state that Dempsey '' didn't have any fighting experience before he turned pro '' ?
    You are completely and utterly contradicting yourself.
     
  14. BoxingFan2002

    BoxingFan2002 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I don't wish because he is a bum with paded record used for young pro fighters to fill their record, which means a tomato can/ human heavybag.
    I know it hurts that only your hero lost against a bum early unlike all time greats.
     
  15. BoxingFan2002

    BoxingFan2002 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Fighting as boxing and fighting to survive in life are not the same thing which you fail to understand, which shows your stupidity.
    Dempsey didn't have any amateur fighting experience with anyone who could box.