Renaldo Snipes vs Sonny Liston, both prime.

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  1. Richard M Murrieta

    Richard M Murrieta Now Deceased 2/4/25 Full Member

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    Renaldo Snipes vs Sonny Liston, both prime. The Snipes who decked WBC Champion Larry Holmes in Nov 1981 meets a prime Liston.
     
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  2. JohnThomas1

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    Snipes would run away from Liston all night. He could be strange like that.
     
  3. InMemoryofJakeLamotta

    InMemoryofJakeLamotta I have defeated the great Seamus Full Member

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    As Liston walks up the ring steps, he slips and falls and hurts his back as the steps were freshly mopped by the janitor who forgot to put up a slippery when wet sign. Thus, Liston loses via DQ
     
  4. northpaw

    northpaw Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Prime Sonny Liston only lost to one person................Hell, post prime Sonny Liston only lost to one person. I can't imagine a scenario where Snipes outboxes or bangs with Liston and wins.
     
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  5. Spreadeagle

    Spreadeagle Active Member Full Member

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    Snipes was a good,solid fighter but Sonny of course is an ATG.Routine victory for the great Liston.
     
  6. swagdelfadeel

    swagdelfadeel Obsessed with Boxing

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    Liston with ease. He also doesn't hit the canvas like the supposed H2H God, Snipes actually fought.
     
  7. ivancho

    ivancho Member Full Member

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    yeah prime liston should be the fav here, but renaldo was legit
     
  8. choklab

    choklab cocoon of horror Full Member

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    A fun fight.

    I am going to go with my man Liston here. Far too much class.

    I think Liston will trouble Renaldo with the jab and hunt him down. Renaldo cannot afford to get hit as much with Sonny like he did with Larry Holmes so he will probably get on his bike like Machen did.
     
  9. Richard M Murrieta

    Richard M Murrieta Now Deceased 2/4/25 Full Member

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    These are all good responses.
     
  10. ikrasevic

    ikrasevic War for Souls Full Member

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    This is IMO peak Snipes. Peak Liston is before the Ali fight. I don't see how this fight could end other than Liston winning.
    Liston wins by KO or TKO until rounds 6-8 at the latest.
     
  11. Titan1

    Titan1 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Liston by shutout. But it wouldn't surprise me if Renaldo snuck in a good right or two, not that they would have bothered Sonny, but still.
     
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  12. RulesMakeItInteresting

    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Liston was both too powerful and too good a boxer. Snipers does his weird, bozo-nic thing and dupes out a few extra rounds.

    He gets beat all over the ring in the end.

    Liston TKO in 8.
     
  13. Pepsi Dioxide

    Pepsi Dioxide Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Liston mid rounds KO

    I'd rather see Liston put a beating on Jorge Luis Gonzalez
     
  14. RulesMakeItInteresting

    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    OUCH, that would hurt.
     
  15. Pepsi Dioxide

    Pepsi Dioxide Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Could you imagine Gonzalez trash talking Liston leading up to the fight? it would be a must see massacre