Who would you pick to beat a PRIME Sonny Liston ?

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  1. Unforgiven

    Unforgiven VIP Member banned Full Member

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    You'd really make a Frazier or a Tyson favourite over a prime Liston ?
     
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  2. manbearpig

    manbearpig A Scottish Noob Full Member

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    I bet you'd pick Dempsey to beat him, eh?
     
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  3. Pachilles

    Pachilles Boxing Addict Full Member

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    :lol: I meant coloured TV, as in not black and white
     
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  4. Pachilles

    Pachilles Boxing Addict Full Member

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    why lie to make friends?
     
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  5. Unforgiven

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    :lol:

    You're the biggest faker on here. You love the old-timers, I bet you think Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest ever ! :rofl
     
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  6. Unforgiven

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    Not me.
    I wouldn't make anyone favourite to beat a prime Sonny Liston.

    I don't know if that makes me a revisionist, a modernist, a hipster, or just a weird ****.
     
    Unforgiven, May 18, 2011
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  7. reznick

    reznick In the 7.2% Full Member

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    Ali and Johnson
     
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  8. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Ali.
     
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  9. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Lewis, Wlad, Foreman, Ali, Holyfield...
     
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  10. SonnyListonsJab

    SonnyListonsJab Active Member Full Member

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    Foreman would never beat Liston
     
    SonnyListonsJab, May 18, 2011
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  11. Pachilles

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    He was the greatest ever, no doubt
     
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  12. RockyJim

    RockyJim Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Anyone who had a heart...I mean this man...as champion....QUIT WHILE SITTING ON HIS STOOL against the light hitting Ali...and then took a DIVE in Maine in May 1965..if you had a heart....you can beat Liston...he's typical school yard bully...stand up to him...and the fights over...
     
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  13. Unforgiven

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    You must be a revisionist-hipster. He never fought on colour TV.
    As far as I can tell, he's not among the canon of "mainstream fighters".

    Some of his footage is shot from way back, is very poorly lit, and doesn't even have sound.
     
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  14. Unforgiven

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    Yes, that's a valid point.
    But those fights were blatant fixes, no ?
     
    Unforgiven, May 18, 2011
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  15. lufcrazy

    lufcrazy requiescat in pace Full Member

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    Only two men in history would I favour to beat liston: louis and ali. Everyone else is 50/50 at best
     
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