Liston & Foster Sparring Story

I'm a big Foster fan.
He's got a sledgehammer left hook, he's got sleeping powder in his hands, does it run in the family?

And you did hit Jerry Quarry with some good shots, did he recover quickly?

 

Mac Foster could hit like a truck, he hit like foreman and shavers. liston was very old when this sparring session took place. this did happen though. In fight between a prime liston, liston would annihalate foster in 2-3 rounds

 

exactly, he would whip him!

 

All these clowns saying Mac Foster didn't hit hard enough to be rated as an all-time hitter are speaking as if they fought him !

Mac Foster hit like a truck.

 

Geeese Russell, take a breath man.

 

I am helping mac foster with a book on his life, Mac Attack! It should be done within a few months

 

yes, I don't want to give away too much, but here is an interesting story- Zora folley after he was knocked out in one round by Mac Foster asked Mac in the ring moments after the fight if he would like to have him (zora folley) as a trainer. After the fight Folley said Mac's power was on par with Sonny Liston.

 

Also Jerry Quarry said Ron Lyle and Mac Fosters power were on the same level, but lyle took a better shot. Ron lyle had proclaimed going into the fight with Quarry he was no Mac Foster. Ron Lyle and Mac Foster were suppose fight in 1972 or 73 but it never happened. I asked George Foreman who Mac is friends with who he thought would have won and he said Mac due his expierence. Also towards the end of Larry Holmes book he claims he thought Mac Foster would be able to beat Mike Tyson. I helped set up that interview that is cited on this site with Mac Foster. By the way I am also working on a book with Howard Davis jr which things are going great with

 

other fighters that are doing or thinking about doing books are

donnie long
Tony Tubbs
Tony Tucker
pinklon thomas
Jose ribalta
ron lyle

 

Rocket, all those books sound very interesting.

Mac Foster never really recovered his career from the Quarry defeat, IMO.
I think he was at his best around then, and had lost a lot of zip and ambition by the time he fought Ali.
No doubt that Foster was a superb puncher.

Jeff Merritt was another big badass from that period, who looked like a terrific prospect. Merritt's problem was drugs, heroin.
Merritt was Don King's first fighter, and in later years he'd show up begging for change in Las Vegas on fight night, telling people he was King's first fighter, this used-up old junkie. I guess that didn't surprise anyone.

 

donnie long?

:roflLMAO :rofl

i bet he could write a full book on how hard mike tyson hits