Sonny v Jeff's challengers?

Is there any particular reason why you can't just address the question I asked?

How does the Liston who had just won the title by koing Patterson do against the title challengers that Jeffries defended against?

It seems pretty straight forward to me.:huh


I repeat, if you want to change the goalposts start another thread,with your own criteria.atsch
Just to humour you , Liston's 6th and 7th fights were against Johnny Summerlin who was 18-1-2 & 18-2-2 this was in August 1954, in Feb 1955 Summerlin was Ring rated number 8 in the world.

Summerlin's lone loss prior to facing Liston was on a cut eye, he was only stopped one other time, in his last fight by Nino Valdes. Summerlin went on to beat Carter,Whitehurst,Powell and Folley.
Liston beat him 2 out of 2.

Only good fighters beat Summerlin ,check him out. This is a quote from then unbeaten Zora Folley's trainer.


"FENN: Well, I tried to train Folley right. Bring him along steady against the right opponents.
SHELTON: These early bouts were in Los Angeles and Clifton, Arizona?
FENN: Yeah, we did well. I only wish that I had not matched him against (Johnny) Summerlin (Folley's first loss - 1955 - Los Angeles). That turned out to be a mistake. Folley was not quite ready for him."


BTW Ruhlin was as much a novice as Jeffries in their first fight.

Choynski was a very experienced fighter of top ability , but he had shaky whiskers and was only 167lbs when he drew with Jeffries over 20 rds. I pick the Liston of the Summerlin fights to beat Choynski.I do not believe ANY 167lbs fighter beats Liston.

 

Not to any of the challengers that Jeffries defended against.

Liston was a victim of his own power, he had less than 2 complete rounds of action,[ under 4.5 mins in the 2 previous years ,]when he faced the greatest heavyweight of all time.
This would patently NOT be the case if he was defending against Jeffries challengers in the same time frame as Jeff.

So your point is not relevant.
You keep muddying the water, but not answering the question.

 

Yes I can see Sharkey repeatedly butting Liston in the stomach doubling him up in pain.In such close quarter work Liston's 13.5" reach advantage would become a distinct liability .
If only Cleveland Williams had been 5'8" instead of 6'3" he could have employed this tactic and scored two great victories over Liston,going on to destroy Patterson, and changing the course of boxing history.

ps .Is Sharkey the only heavyweight to be kod by a lightweight?
Twenty years old Sailor Tom, with 6 fights behind him ,was stopped by lightweight George Washington who was making his debut.
Perhaps Washington was too short for Sharkey to utilise his famed body attack?:think

 

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