What you say is perfectly plausible; my own doubts about Liston ate mainly due to his connections and some of the points other posters have...
Well said, mcvey. Liston gets overlooked due to the Ali fights and is portrayed as simply a "no heart" fighter. I think this is simplistic and...
Exactly. :good
1. Patterson 2. Witherspoon 3. Schmeling
Hatton gave Floyd a decent fight and he isn't in Pryor's league. Pryor's ability to do the unexpected would be a factor, too. It's one thing...
Larry Merchant is a snide **** who pinches a living. Frazier won clearly in a brutal fight that proved both fighters were great.
Ali needed reviving, whether it was illegal or not is immaterial; Henry Cooper damn nearly knocked him out!! Stop skating around the issue; Ali...
Ali was gone. He got up of his stool halfway through the break. The smelling salts brought him back to reality, so I can categorically say that...
I think what some people are missing is how much stronger and more savvy Ali was in the 70's. He manhandled Foreman in their 74 fight but Cooper...
Are you suggesting that there was something dubious about these fights??????
I have heard Dundee say that the post exile Ali would have beaten the pre exile Ali.
That's the one I would pick, too.
Like he smashed Holyfield to the ground? He'd box with Liston, not slug with him.
Who would take this fight? I have been watching a lot of Larry Holmes's fights, lately and I got to wondering how he might have fared against...
One of the best fantasy match ups I have seen put forward. Both were brutal punchers, and I slightly favour Mugabi, but it it would be an absolute...
