Was Foreman drugged? He says he was, but that could easily be a sour grapes excuse. Despite trying to appear as a nice guy, he has never...
I Think you're probably right.
In the aftermath of that fight, the whole country thought it was fixed. Liston was even hauled before a Congresional investigating committee....
Not exactly. Here are two Foreman quotes within the same 2007 interview: Then Translation- It wasn't fixed. I got beat fair and square....
A couple of months ago I read an online article suggesting the Ali-Foreman fight was fixed. http://ringsidereport.com/?p=2560 Not fixed in the...
Butterbean vs: 1. Ali 2. Frazier 3. Foreman 4. Tyson Ali - Ali would have a very difficult time with BB. Ali would dance with his hands down by...
Butterbean would have given Ali a real hard time. Dancing around with your hands at your sides is an invitation for disaster when facing Butterbean.
The Griffith-Paret fight.
Another thing to give pause was Liston's post fight reaction to the "KO". He didn't complain about it. He said essentially that it was a fair...
Liston was owned by the Mob. The reason these fights were rigged is anybody's guess. The second fight wasn't thrown. It was wrongly stopped by...
Liston
A square bale weighs about 75 lbs. If it's wet it might weigh 90. Still not easy to toss around.
If you count fixed fights, the two Clay-Liston fights.
He may have been right. I never saw Corbett. Fleischer did.
I think all of them are overrated , at times. None of them were as good as their advocates think they were. That includes Ali.
