Funny thing is, anyone with You Tube and a stopwatch can time the delay and see that it was negligible. Myths die hard even in the face of hard...
He really shouldn't have been favored though: At that point Liston had actually beaten the better fighters (Williams, Machen, ect.) while D'Amato...
That's my take: The same things that made Foreman a "bridge too far" for Frazier do the same for Marciano against Liston. It's one of the very...