Plus he gave up sitting on his stool the greatest prize in all of sport. Liston lacked Joes heart and will to win.
Poor mans Louis......he had great power, hard jab and a style sort of like a stalking Joe Louis. Liston lacked Joes depth of boxing skill, hand...
A straighter blow...right hand beats a hooking blow...left hook to the punch. Happens all the time especially when one fighter has such a great...
Greb.
An Ali post prime. Ali won 2/3 and scored the only stoppage. Marciano was the far greater fighter. Ali who fought Joe and sparred with Rocky...
AND he was a one handed heavyweight.
Silly. Frazier was what the boxing community calls a one handed fighter. Great fighters exploit major defects. Joe was great but at a high...
Liston was a poor mans Louis.
No it was you.
Marciano had that ultra low crouch that would better able avoid the Frazier hook. Marcianos right beats Joes hook to the punch for the KO win....
The Foreman who sparred with Liston was a very young George.
Punchers such as Liston, Foreman, Shavers just don't beat prime Ali to the Ali of say 76.
Don't forget Seamus picked Kovalev to knock out Marciano, Louis and Dempsey.
Charles was great but Ali takes away his speed with his own peppering Charles at distance. Ali just would not be there to be hit in return. In a...
This would have been a KO for the ages. Valuev was a relatively immobile target. No head movement and Louis had those 5 punch deadly combination...