Patterson was an amazing fighter who went on to have a great career even past those losses to Liston, to simply call him inept seems ignorant.
“He was dumb but only when he lost.” Sounds like you need to hop off the copeium brother. Cus Damado V2 over here with the excuses for Patterson. He lost to a superior fighter, it happens. (No hate to Patterson, one of my favorite boxers ever. Truly a mans man.)
FFS I had to look the word up: Etymology Blend of cope (“delusion, coping mechanism”) + opium. First cited usage points back to the album entitled Copium released by American rapper Keak da Sneak in 2003. The term was popularized in 2020 by a reaction image of Pepe the Frog hooked up to a gas cylinder labeled "copium".[1] Sometimes reanalyzed as cope + -ium.
Yup. Liston dominated Patterson so badly that the two wins are useless. If only Liston was knocked down en route to copping a close SD, the win would actually mean something. Do you hear yourself?