[VID] Sonny Liston vs. Elmer Rush (Good Quality)

This was interesting thanks again

 

Here's a good piece on Elmer Rush.

http://www.boxing.com/big_elmer_rush_a_man_of_the_ring.html

 

Sonny was so patient he didn't even cut the ring off.

 

Agreed. You could see Liston at one point up the ante and get much more on top of him. He ended up bouncing him off the canvas like a yoyo. Nice footage.

 

Thanks, I always love backgrounds stuff like this.

"Boxing muddled through the crisis, and in the fall of that year it got what was widely considered a shot in the arm when Jack Hurley announced that he was returning to the sport to make 23-year-old Elmer Rush heavyweight champion of the world.

Hurley was a legendary manager-promoter whose partnership with lightweight Billy “The Fargo Express” Petrolle in the 1930s earned them both ring immortality. He also made Charley Retzlaff a heavyweight contender, famously turned around the career of Harry “Kid” Matthews in the 1950s, and promoted the Floyd Patterson-Pete Radamacher heavyweight title fight in ’57. Then, dismayed by the dearth of malleable ring talent, Hurley became a traveling tub-thumper for the Harlem Globetrotters (and tried to convince Wilt Chamberlain to give boxing a try. “I’ve got too far to fall,” protested the 7’1” hoops star)."

Hopefully boxing or wasn't holding its breath waiting for Jack Hurley to rescue the sport.
Hiss legendary management of The Fargo Express and CHarley Retzlaff the side it's not a good sign when promoting Patterson /Rademacher was one of best and biggest credits .

It appears that Rush went 11-4-2 under Hurley's highly touted tutelage!

 

No. He was following him until Rush stopped running.

 

I think you're being funny.

 

Rez is out ? Bummer.

 

I thought that too.

 

Can't say I'm fully surprised given his recent wars of words, but it's a shame, regardless.

 

I know he was getting a bit testy but booted ?