Liston or Dempsey.. Which Do You Rate Higher?

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  1. BCS8

    BCS8 VIP Member

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    P4P certainly Dempsey. Head to head maybe leaning towards Liston.
     
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  2. Totentanz.

    Totentanz. Gator Wrestler Extraordinaire banned Full Member

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    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.
     
  3. FrankinDallas

    FrankinDallas FRANKINAUSTIN

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    He was inept IN THOSE BOUTS with Liston. Totally helpless.
     
  4. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    The people on Boxing Scene must have taught you this stuff.
     
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  5. FrankinDallas

    FrankinDallas FRANKINAUSTIN

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    Go roast a goat you kilt wearing weirdo.
     
  6. SonnyListon>

    SonnyListon> #1 Sonny Liston fan Full Member

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    My goat Liston handles him. The reach advantage is just too much for dempsy.
     
  7. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    :lol: no more boxing scene patter please, this is a clean forum.
     
  8. SonnyListon>

    SonnyListon> #1 Sonny Liston fan Full Member

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    “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.)
     
  9. janitor

    janitor VIP Member Full Member

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    I think that Dempsey accomplished more, but that Liston might have had a higher theoretical ceiling.
     
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  10. FrankinDallas

    FrankinDallas FRANKINAUSTIN

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    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.
     
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  11. GlaukosTheHammer

    GlaukosTheHammer Boxing Addict Full Member

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  12. SonnyListon>

    SonnyListon> #1 Sonny Liston fan Full Member

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    Sorry haha, sometimes its hard not to use every day slang on the forums.
     
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  13. swagdelfadeel

    swagdelfadeel Obsessed with Boxing

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    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?
     
  14. Ney

    Ney Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Pound-for-pound? Dempsey.
    Achievements? Dempsey.
    Head-to-Head? Toss that coin.
     
    Last edited: Jul 1, 2024
  15. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    This sounds so bad it seems AI produced it.