Sonny Liston vs 1991 Evander Holyfield

Liston, he'd be able to take Holyfield's punches in a brawl and hurt Holyfield himself, and they would brawl.

I like Liston to jab Holy whilst not exchanging to win rounds and set up his shots to hurt Holyfield, he'd eat a few counters though.

Great fight, Liston UD12.

But there's an issue, you've done this twice before.
https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/sonny-liston-vs-evander-holyfield-primes.631403/
https://www.boxingforum24.com/threa...me-liston-does-liston-get-torn-up-too.595988/

 

Holyfield's darting style confuses and frustrates the hell out of Liston. In the 9th round Holy hurts him with a tripled up hook and Liston holds until the end of the fight. Holy unanimous decision.

Liston was a great fighter, I just don't place him as high as Holy in the pantheon (and yeah I know how amazing he was in the fifties).

 

Liston by UD. But Holyfield makes him work for it.

 

I think Holyfield could do it if he stayed disciplined.

 

I wonder who would be stronger Williams or Holyfield? Since it took a few rounds for Liston to push him back, Holy had a bit of strength more so moving/pushing as opposed to power in his shots. Liston said he had doubts going in, but gained confidence in victory over Williams.

I can see that smirk on Holy's face telling Liston this aint gonna be easy. Holy had excellent lateral movement for defense as his muscular upper body didn't allow a style of ducking, bobbing or weaving. He IMO would use his feet-work & lateral movement to cause Liston to reset. Over & over.

Only in mid-rounds does Liston catch him which ruins Holy's discipline, aww shux...a fight done broke out! I think it is a marvelous back n forth scrap where Holy gets the nod on 2 scorecards, one a draw via MD.

 

Beat me by a second again, damn you!

Told ya!

 

Let me go into post fight mode.

Well, BCS8 won, I take nothing away from him. But my keyboard kept getting stuck on the (H) Key, so I had to retype giving BCS8 that extra second, but I'm not making excuses.

And when my browser shut down, I had to reboot my pc, but I aint taking nothing away from BCS8, No excuses. But when I spilled my coffee, heck I couldn't hit enter right then...had to find the Clorox wipes, not the regular kind which took additional time.

But like I said....no excuses...

 

Your analysis was better

 

Sonny Liston executes Evander and I don't think it'd take too long to do it, inside 5. This ain't a 42 year old Foreman who hurt Holyfield.

 

The fans.

And probably Liston. Barely.

 

I think it’s conceivable that Holyfield fights a really smart fight and stays away and outpoints him.

I think an ATG brawl is more likely, one where Holyfield is outgunned but not stopped.

Liston UD

 

There are 2 strikes against Holyfield here.

1 - In 1991 he was barely 210lbs with a tiny waist & that's not a good combo against a monster like Liston.
2 - At this stage of his career he was drawn into a bar room brawl too easily, which is a recipe for disaster here, the result would be a UD or late stoppage for Liston.

 

Holyfield has to be slightly favored here