Sonny Listons height and reach

Bummy Davis · Feb 17, 2013

I remember going up to ring magazine as a youngster 15years old and looking at all of the hand molds of the Heavyweights, The one that stuck out was Primo Carnera, incredible and the largest by far, it was freaky.....Sonny had long arms for a guy slightly north of 6" even an 80 inch reach would be freaky but 84 is strictly myth

Hookie · Feb 17, 2013

Primo was tall, long reach, big everything... sucked balls and got beat up and outboxed by much smaller men. Size ain't everything.

AnthonyJ74 · Feb 17, 2013

choklab said: ↑

Liston was as tall as the regular 1950s heavyweights only he had longer than usual arms and bigger hands. Even on film you can tell against men as tall as himself Sonny has the longer arms. Nobody but a taller fighter could match his reach.

However, Sonny was shorter than all the 6'3'' guys who came later.

In the 1960s Ali was tall. By the 1970s ali was not tall anymore. Liston was not tall in the 1950s.

If Hasim Rahman trained in the 1950s he would look like Sonny Liston.
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Did average heights really increase over the span of 10 years?

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