Sonny liston is overrated.

Discussion in 'Classic Boxing Forum' started by ListontheTrash, Aug 9, 2024.



  1. Spreadeagle

    Spreadeagle Active Member Full Member

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    Yep,despite how infuriating his fans can be Marciano was a helluva fighter.Tremendous
    puncher and loads of courage.Indeed Sonny he is worth looking into.
     
  2. Spreadeagle

    Spreadeagle Active Member Full Member

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    Too bad Sonny Liston didn't get the respect he deserved when he was alive.
     
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  3. Spreadeagle

    Spreadeagle Active Member Full Member

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    Sonny Liston actually had a great resume.He defeated all the leading contenders before
    he got a chance to fight for the title.
     
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  4. Spreadeagle

    Spreadeagle Active Member Full Member

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    GREAT post !
     
  5. SonnyListon>

    SonnyListon> #1 Sonny Liston fan Full Member

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    It is…
     
  6. SonnyListon>

    SonnyListon> #1 Sonny Liston fan Full Member

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    Man if you could I would LOVE details. I love talking to old timers who were alive during his reign. Please tell me more.
     
  7. BoxingFan2002

    BoxingFan2002 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Nope.
    He was defeated by two LHWs and his best wins are small scared Patterson and no chin Williams.
     
  8. newurban99

    newurban99 Active Member Full Member

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    If you do a search of my posts, you'll find I wrote a lot about him before you joined this forum.
     
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  9. Spreadeagle

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    Please tell me who are the light-heavyweights who defeated Liston.
    Can you also tell me who else defeated Patterson as emphatically as Liston did.
    The 'small scared ' Floyd Patterson who went on to beat Eddie Machen,George Chuvalo,Oscar Bonavena
    and draw with Jerry Quarry in a fight that just about everybody thought Floyd had won.
    Yes that Floyd Patterson,stopped inside one round by Sonny Liston in both their title-fights.
     
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  10. BoxingFan2002

    BoxingFan2002 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Marty Marshall a bum journeyman and Leotis Martin another journeyman and c level fighter.

    Ingemar Johansson and if Patterson faced Frazier or Foreman he would end even worse than against Liston.
    Floyd beat few average journeyman and Quarry beat him clearly in their second fight.
     
  11. JohnThomas1

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    Unless you cross him, you're betting off just staying well clear then as there will only be one winner :lol:
     
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  12. JohnThomas1

    JohnThomas1 VIP Member

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    Don't give him too much oxygen as it will only embolden the idiot to post more and NONE of us wants that :sisi1
     
  13. JohnThomas1

    JohnThomas1 VIP Member

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    The forums vegan cyclist has spoken.
     
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  14. swagdelfadeel

    swagdelfadeel Obsessed with Boxing

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    :lol: :lol:
     
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  15. Pugguy

    Pugguy Ingo, The Thinking Man’s GOAT Full Member

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    Yet again, you’ve affirmed that simple logic and basic intellectual processes evade you.

    So much so that, when the err of your ways is surgically highlighted and explained, you don’t even have the intellectual capacity to understand and take it on board.

    Basically what we’re dealing with here is the ever present, Boxing Fool Catch 22.

    By comparing Tyson-Douglas to Williams - Satterfield, per deduction, you would have to also believe that Tyson fought nobodies until be faced Douglas.

    Don’t worry, I know you’re not even aware of the latest conundrum that you’ve placed yourself into - ignorance is bliss.

    Stupid is as stupid does and you does stupid like no one else.

    You’re also heavily preoccupied with butts and them being hurt, aren’t you? So many repeated references to same.

    Hmmm, do you need to get something off your chest, Bfool? Freud would have a field day with you.

    Again, you’ve just been Serbed.
     
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