I don't remember it that way. I'll have to see it again. One thing I'm sure I remember is Oscar, at the weigh-in, sniffing Joe's body and his face...
No, I meant in his second fight with Bonavena.
Don't be so sure that Foreman was stronger than prime Liston. The guy had freakish strength.
Or his jab. Or his left hook. Or his right hand. Or any combination of the above along with his strength. And Joe is going to stand in front of...
Absolutely. The best version of Smokin Joe, 1969-71, gets smoked if he faces prime Sonny. No question it's a prequel to Foreman vs Frazier.
Yes, it was early in the fight. And didn't Joe get decked again in their second encounter?
You're right, he was a fringe contender, slow and clumsy and vulnerable to a two-fisted body attack like the one Frazier wielded. However. he...
You never know. Life is strangely unpredictable, I'm sure you've all noticed. Imagine this: Frazier fights Mike DeJohn on national TV in 1957 and...
I just looked up his record and you're right. Stribling is all but forgotten but fought an average of once every two weeks for 12 years and was...
Roman did fight and stay the distance with a lot of tough fighters. Can't take that away from him. He didn't belong in a ring with Foreman. Very...
Joe King Roman made Peter McNeeley look like Jack Dempsey. His was as bad a showing in a championship bout -- in any weight division -- as I've...
Good question. Tyson was hungry in 1987. He hadn't yet moved over to the dark side (to join with Don King). Douglas was talented and capable of...
My theory about Patterson is that after hitting bottom with the two first-round knockout losses to Liston and the casting off of Cus, he felt a...
From the standpoint of a biographer or a historian the life story of Sonny Liston is so rich that not even the Nick Tosches book could do more...
I can imagine a scenario in which 1968-69 Liston gets offered chances to fight contenders -- at discount rates. He hadn't the leverage to demand...
