https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bd4OBvaJp78 Great fight, lots of stamina here.. and a high work rate is shown by both. 12 hard fought rounds What's your scorecards ?
Long time since I saw the fight - I have to check. Another question: When is Liston deducted the three points? If he ever is, as the scorecards does not reflect that he was.
The Ingemar Johansen result does on reflection seems to be one of those anomalies, Eddie did not always win, Ala Liston, Patterson or when an old Veteran Vs a young Frazier, but he knew how survive, a real cutey The Wiley old fox even tried to Sucker Frazier onto a big Shot, all the more remarkable considering Eddie was apparently cursed by bouts of depression, if you could of transplanted him a few decades forward he could of been a great Cruiser (?) It's was Strange and Sad that he was to Die (mysteriously ?) and Early ..so close to the accidental death of his close rival Zora Folly,
Johannson is sold too short. He may have been fairly one dimensional but I think he probably had one of the hardest right hands in the history of the sport. Maybe landing it was an anomoly (and he wasnt THAT bad) but what it did to Machen wasnt. Ive seen footage of him as a kid in the amateurs where he knocked kids literally across the ring and completely unconcious. His knockouts back then looked like Robinson's when he was a kid. Just otherworldly power. Machen fought Liston with one good hand and gave him a good fight. Id have liked to have seen a rematch with Machen using both hands.
I remember International Boxing or one of the other similar mags (same publisher), in the early '80's, reprinted an article about Eddie Machen. It may have been written oringinially by Jimmy Cannon. I can't remember exactly and am not sure I still have that issue. The article basically said he was a hard luck fighter.
