Champ Ingo vs Liston

I would have recommended retirement! :yep

Better to keep one's health than one's title.

 

Ingo lose by kayo.

 

I think Ingo's peak was in '58 and '59...and it would have been during this period that he would have been at his best, in form AND confidence to fight a Sonny Liston. After the ko loss in '60 to Patterson, he was never the same, although in that fun but sloppy 3rd fight he decked Floyd twice. If Ingo had decked Floyd a third time and won, it would have been a disaster to face Liston. Ingo would have been slaughtered in 2.

 

Would be just like the Liston-Patterson fights.

 

He would retire unless hes ******ed. Or be retired and made ******ed.

 

very good points. I agree ingo peaked in 58 and 59 and on that form he would deserve a 50-50 chance against Liston. remember how they both did against machen. Liston was not hit by anyone who could punch like a peak ingo who was pretty darn accurate.

However, Ingo could never hope to be the same fighter after that first KO by Patterson, his head bounced off the deck something terrible, Two hard knockdowns -I don’t know how he got up the first time and Arthur mercante thought Ingo had been killed when he went down the second time, and he saw a lot of knockouts.

People forget what a good fighter patterson beat when he regained the title.

 

Basically yes, Sonny would've destroyed him early in a one-sided slugfest.

 

I wont say he would win but I would give 1958-59 ingo a chance. he was a lot beter than bert whitehurst who went 20 rounds with liston and hurt sonny with an ingo type right hand without anything like ingo power.

Im tired of hearing how hard big cat wiliams hit liston but before facing Liston how many rated fighters did wiliams ever knock clean out? There is no proof Liston could take ingo's punch, so for that reson alone ingo deserves a bit more respect.

There is an argument patterson and ingo ruined each other as fighters in their serries.

Sonny blew away patterson but that was after ingo had already been through him. how much of the 58-59 ingo was left after patterson KO'd him?

 

Lol

 

Liston demolishes him in that time frame.

It wouldn't even be competitive.

 

I don't think Ingo would have stood a chance against Liston. He was done for after that third fight with Floyd.

 

He was in the business to make money. He would have been the champion after all, and the Liston fight would have made him a lot. He would have been destroyed, and then he would have had to retire. I've always thought that the kayos he suffered against Patterson (particularly the 1960 bout) was a factor in his later dementia. If he had suffered a kayo similar to the 1960 fight at the fists of Liston, the brain damage would have been more severe and may even have been apparent soon after the fight.

 

I like Ingo, I think his family and corner did too. Which is why they wouldn't go near Sonny Liston. Ingo retires or takes the money along with a 1st round knockout loss back home.

 

Easily the worst post i've ever read in this forum. You can't be serious..Liston destroy ANY version of overrated Ingo.