yuh name me one who stops the other guy 135 seconds later. smelling salts were illegal in Britain for harming fighters, not for helping them. You have no idea what you are talking about here either. because they used them in america legally, both fighter and boxer. YOU arent looking at every case of using them, which is what you need to do in order to draw a conclusion about their use. YOU are just seeing the one case and drawing a conclusion from it for ALL cases. It is the height of stupidity to do so.
Liston legacy goes up, but I don't think one fight ruins or makes a fighters career. I think Ali would have always been great no matter what. I think great fighters would always be great and you cannot make a non great a great just by winning a big fight like Barkley or Marquez. It takes a whole career.