Sonny Listons height and reach

It's clear now......Sonny was on PED's. No other explanation.

 

Hi Robbi.
I don't know. All I can go by is what I see, what has been written and what people who stood next to the man on a daily basis have told me. He looks 6'1. The official record says 6'1. The people who knew him say 6'1.

I'm gonna say 6'1

 

How? They said he was around 38 when he died?

 

Liston did have the biggest fist ever in HW history I think. Plus,Lenny Lewis reach.

 

Liston always lied about his age.

 

Sonny Liston was born in 1917.
He was 46 when he fought Clay.
He was 53 when he died.

 

Than how the hell was he getting the senior discount prior the Clay fight?

:think

 

liston was a freak of nature,has nothing what so ever to do with klitschko's height

 

Really, really interesting picture this is. It clearly shows just how long Liston's arm is. I know that that is in all likelhihood a young Foreman, but Sonny just looks overall more massive there to me.
Impressive pic.

 

I remember a few years ago, someone here posted a claimed life-sized picture of Liston's fist on the board. I held my own fist up to it, and mine looked like that of a 12 year old child's by comparison.

I don't remember who posted the pic and I don't know if it was an actual life-sized representation of Liston's fist or not (as was claimed) but if it was...holy ****. That thing was a ham.

I do have a life-sized fist of Gerrie Coetzee...he actually had it moulded for me, and I tell you that his fist is massive as well. I can't imagine getting hit by a fist that large. I think I'll post a pic of it here soon.
Anyway, his fist measurement was around 12" or so...considerably smaller than Liston's. Yet it's still massive.

 

Well, there's still a lot of dispute surrounding it.
Some say he was born in 1932, some say 1930, some say 1925, 1927, 1928. Some say 1917 or 1919.

Some reports say he started boxing in prison, but Liston himself said in an interview that he went to a boxing gym as a kid.
There's been speculation that he was one of several boxers who used the name 'Sailor Liston' in the late 1930s and 1940s.
He spent a lot of time in jails in the deep south.

 

When you were 12 ?

 

I wish!