I'm glad to see the majority favoring Louis. It shows there really is the highest respect for Joe among us. However, I pick Liston in this...
I watched some of that fight again this week. Machen's reflexes looked a little slow, as if he was on psychiatric drugs.
While it's true that Cus wanted to protect Floyd from Liston, his enmity with the thugs who controlled boxing and Liston played a large role, too....
There were reports out of Las Vegas that Liston was engaging in lots of extracurricular activities while training for the Patterson rematch and...
The first three rounds would be a jabbing contest. Both men would land their share of jabs. But Liston's jabs are much harder. By the seventh...
That's an accurate description of Clay in the first round. But if that's not running, I don't know how Machen can be accused of running. He fought...
Lateral movement and in-and-out fighting is a good description of Machen's tactics against Sonny. That and repeatedly stepping to the left and to...
How about Round One, Clay vs Liston? The world of boxing had never seen such fleet-footed movement from a heavyweight. Clay used the entire ring...
I need to get something off my chest. It bugs me how often I read that Machen ran 12 rounds from Liston and cared only to survive. I have watched...
Liston was overconfident facing Clay in 1964. He'd have been even more confident in 1962. But the 1962 Clay had the same attributes as '64 Clay....
Very interesting. I didn't know that Machen had a rematch clause. Interesting that Machen's team considered Johansson dangerous enough to insist...
The stench from the Lewiston fight made Liston a pariah. He wasn't a gate attraction anymore. The disgusted public shunned him. He was scrubbed...
Clay still beats Liston in 1963. Very possible he beats Sonny in '62. Too much speed.
He was courageous, witty, lavishly talented and everything else. I just wish he hadn't popularized trash talk. Good sportsmanship used to be a virtue.
Patterson surely would've been an ATG at light heavy. But I don't know if he could beat Gene Tunney.
