Ross Purrity vs Sonny Liston

Your wit is devasting.

 

Go lay down and put it all out of your mind you couldn’t comprehend such a fight like I can you nincompoop.

 

My wit is devastating.

 

Like the short right that sparked Liston out.

 

Well I'll say this for you....you're putting plenty of effort in today.Tell you what,how about your appraisal
of Ross Purrity's wonderful technical skills.

 

Hate to tell you this buddy,but I was being sarcastic.

 

Oh dear....I'm so sorry but I was being sarcastic.I thought you would know this ?

 

Well at least I haven't resorted to personal insults.Shame on you boy.

 

LOOOOL I notice that you backed away smartly from Farmer Jess and his boxing worth.

As for Puritty I don't claim any amazing skills. He keeps a high guard and has powerful hooks and fights well in a clinch where he applies heavy body punches. The dude is very strong and not the kind of guy you want to get into the trenches with. Liston enjoyed exchanging and that's a bad thing against Ross in my opinion. Liston has an excellent jab and would be advised to pick his spots and fight at range ... as I already said.

 

Very well,let's make the comparisons between Willard and Purrity.Willard was regarded as a skilful counter-puncher,a fact acknowledged by the great Jack Johnson.
He was also a very capable body-puncher.
You praise Purrity for being very stong and being a capable in-fighter.Fair enough,Ross was a formidable fighter I wouldn't argue with that.
However the same could be said about Jess Willard.
Obviously given that Sonny Liston had one of the greatest jabs in history he indeed would be advised to use his jab against Purrity.No argument there.
However I still dispute that Sonny would likely be knocked
out by Purrity.Which after all was the starting point of this discussion.

 

Oh come on.As I've already said Ali was no Joe Louis or Sonny Liston when it came to
punching power but he had decent enough power.After all he was the only man to stop the
iron-chinned Oscar Bonavena.

 

Ross Purrity was a sturdy guy and was in with big punchers that hit him clean so while I think Liston had the boxing ability and jab to win clearly, I would bet against a Liston KO, and you got to be careful with Purrity because his solid chin could nullify a puncher and wear you down. Morrison, Vlad K. Vitali K. Rahman, all tested Ross Purrity's chin so I don't see Sonny doing any better.

 

He was so hard puncher that he knocked or beat no one, and Chuvalo who fought Frazier,Foreman and DeJohn said they hit harder than him.

Sonny didn't face Foreman or Lennox Lewis or any fighter that two fisted skilled fighter with good chin unlike Williams who had no chin and was one handed.
He was just contender like a Razor Ruddock maybe even not as that good but similar to him.

My comments are accurate.

Williams still beat no one good, even his punches that were so "strong" didn't KO anyone and his chin was zero to none when he was KOed by LHw Bob Satterfield.

 

Because Cleveland might not have punched as hard as Foreman or DeJohn doesn't degrade
him as a puncher.
George Chuvalo was very complimentary about Smokin'Joe's punching power but I don't remember
him making any statement which would indicate he rated Joe's power above that of Cleveland's.
Cleveland Williams defeated Ernie Terrell and was good enough to draw with Eddie Machen.He was no
joke.
Cleveland Williams had serious punching power in both hands.Great left hook,tremendous straight right,and a heavy left jab.
As for William's defeat by Satterfield ( himself a very formidable puncher ) it should be mentioned that Cleveland was a late substitute for that fight.Besides we're not discussing Williams's chin
but his punching power.
Cleveland Williams was an all-time great puncher.To deny this is totally unreasonable.

 

It does because he never achieved anything than being a punching bag and got only praised because people wanna built Sonny's resume.

George Foreman was very heavy handed and there was a different feel to his shots. The best analogy would be Joe Frazier and Jerry Quarry hitting you was equivalent to being struck by a car at 100 mph, but when George landed it was like being hit by a mac truck at 50 mph.

Joe rated Fraziet 3rd after DeJohn and Foreman.

He was a joke, Terrel beat him in rematch and Machen was nothing but a good contender.

Nope, just overhyoed power he never stopped anyone.
He also never had good right hand, same way Baer never had good left hand.

And Satterfield was LHW defeated by Jake Lamotta.
Last substitute or not, it would be like Tyson losing against Qawi or Foster.