George Foreman vs. Sonny Liston prime for prime.

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  1. RulesMakeItInteresting

    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I already wrote he never saw it coming. You can see it on the replay. I think you already knew that, my friend.
     
  2. RulesMakeItInteresting

    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Look at his eyes. Clouded. Like I said, I saw the fight the day it happened and I ain't blind.
     
  3. ETM

    ETM I thought I did enough to win. Full Member

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    The referee always waves it off when he reaches 10. It's a basic.
    For God's sake man tuck in your underwear.
     
  4. RulesMakeItInteresting

    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Tuck in....(dying).
     
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  5. ETM

    ETM I thought I did enough to win. Full Member

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    Opposed to saying that Liston didn't injure his shoulder. Their subjective.
     
  6. RulesMakeItInteresting

    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Fair enough.
     
  7. Eddie Ezzard

    Eddie Ezzard Boxing Addict Full Member

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    So's his underwear!
     
  8. HOUDINI

    HOUDINI Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Nothing subjective about a worlds hwt champion quitting on his stool. Worst black mark in hwt boxing history. Add to this he quit because he hurt his shoulder yet he was throwing punches with that arm seconds before.

    Foreman struggled to beat the count vs Ali and barely missed doing so. Only the uneducated, and there are quite a few on this thread, would try to compare the two.
     
  9. HOUDINI

    HOUDINI Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Also it’s not a question of whether Liston hurt his arm or not. The question is his lack of desire to continue to fight, his will to win. Instead if refusing to quit he quit as soon as he could! He was using that arm, throwing punches, just moments before. Nothing was going on that badly to cause Liston to give up sitting on his stool. He had no desire to continue to fight, no desire to keep his championship, no desire to find a way to continue to fight on. No, none of that, I’ll just quit! Absolutely the worst black mark ever for any hwt champion in boxing history.
     
  10. Clean & Crisp

    Clean & Crisp RockIsTheThing-LifeHasNoMeaning&MoneyIsKing Full Member

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    A lot of ignorance on display here but any true boxing sage knows two things about hwt boxing history:

    1. The Foreman jab was the greatest since Louis, consensus amongst boxing intelligentsia
    2. Liston quitting on his stool is the worst black mark in hwt championship history. Quitting while on the deck is fine though.
     
  11. Golden_Feather99

    Golden_Feather99 Active Member Full Member

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    That'd be Mark Wills.
     
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  12. swagdelfadeel

    swagdelfadeel Obsessed with Boxing

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    Even though the exact opposite happened in real life?
    The FBI disagrees as they suspected this fight was fixed.
     
  13. swagdelfadeel

    swagdelfadeel Obsessed with Boxing

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    On second thought I agree with HOUDINI in that Liston's shoulder wasn't injured. Never mind those SEVEN doctors who verified his injury. What do they know?
     
  14. swagdelfadeel

    swagdelfadeel Obsessed with Boxing

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    No that is not true. The concensus is either Liston or Holmes had the best jab in heavyweight history (I guess Ali is a dark horse).
     
  15. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Spoken like a true neophyte to combat sports.

    The lot of you boomer and older self proclaimed historians need to take a nap. Your trite, uneducated, unworldy opinions are just nauseating.