But the WBA, whose ratings are far more significant in a discussion of whether Liston should have been in the WBA tourney, had Johnson ranked 8th.
Thought I'd drop in this recollection from Wills, late in his life, of sparring with Johnson: "I was one of his sparring partners when he was...
Ah, you were just too quick for me! This was an era when top 10 contenders were routinely facing each other in non-title bouts so it's not...
I don't know where you're getting your facts from, and of course it depends whose ratings we're talking about, but here's a contemporary report...
Hoping I have this right... At the time they faced Liston, Folley and Machen were both ranked no.2 behind Liston himself. Harris was 6th,...
This isn't a question of a few dissenting opinions. The American press was split roughly half and half, and almost all those who scored it for...
Well, Ed Schuyler of the Associated Press, Steve Wilstein of the United Press, Dave Anderson of the New York Times, Phil Pepe of the New York...
Liston also beat Amos Johnson in '66, who was ranked about 7th or 8th at the time.
In three years he successfully defended against Ron Lyle, Joe Bugner, Joe Frazier, Jimmy Young, Ken Norton and Earnie Shavers. It's a far better...
Also a purse of $125,000 - more than he was accustomed to getting for defending his light heavyweight title.
I'd say that's a fair assessment. In that third bout, it's scary that Ray was allowed to get into the ring with Joe Louis so soon after being...
Ok, here's the AP report of the same bout: ****://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GbcqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qGQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3604,6167472
It's just not true. Here's an account of the first of those bouts:...
I'm pretty sure that's a myth. The closest Louis came to knocking out Elmer Ray was in the last of their three exhibition bouts when Ray couldn't...
Williams does sometimes get a bit overrated - I'm pretty sure I once saw him placed 18th on an all-time heavyweight listing. It's true he doesn't...
