I wouldn't put money on anyone to beat Liston & it would be quite funny seeing Tyson intimidated by a genuine badazz.
Mike Tyson on Liston's fight with Ali in Feb.1964 in Miami:"I find it unacceptable that Sonny Liston didn't get up off his stool. He should have carried on!!!" Robert Lypsyte on Liston in Miami in '64:"If you're the heavyweight champion,....you die trying....but he just SAT there. He GAVE UP!"
What has any of that got to do with Liston using your hero as target practice? A prime Liston ruins Rocky within 6 rounds.and all the heart in the world wouldn't save him
A prime Rocky kbocked quitter ass in late rounds like he was never ever knocked out before! Prime Rocky knocked your hero late worse than Ali and Martin did! Then yiu would cry over your hero like never before! That heart saved Clay and bum Martin and what happened to Sonny?
I think Liston would do well in the 90s. I'd have him beat everybody in one-offs though his lack of focus means after he wins the title, he'd hit up the booze, coke, marijuana, sparks a steep decline.
What Baloney! Mighty as well say he was a max of ~34; by 1964 Liston was 102 years old. You see, all the confusion about his birth date stems from being sired during the Civil War. He then fathered a child circa 1930 when most think he was really born. Named him after himself, just like Big George Foreman did with his many sons. But Sonny was too proud to explain, creating mucho confusion. Foreman idolized his old mentor & sparing partner, where do you think he got that idea from?
Yeah, rumour has it when Jeffries was a young lad he saw Sonny Liston fighting and he met him after the fight got his autograph etc and he said he knew he could never be at a level to defeat him, so he swore never to share a ring with him.
Liston taught Bob Fitzsimons everything he knew. Bob Even carried Listons gym bag until he was good enough to skip rope. Of course, in those days, Sonny was called Sailor Charlie Liston. And white..
