My God I am so tired I am so fed up with the excuses of the Mike Tyson vs Buster Douglas fight, acceptance is a good thing, it builds character, it thwarts off denial. So he got rid of Kevin Rooney, he took up with Robyn Given and her neurotic mother, poor choices but they were his. Just let the guy lose in peace, you will find another hero. As for Ali getting dropped by Henry Cooper in 1963, he got decked, but bottom line, he got up to stop Cooper, he did not stay down feebly looking for his mouthpiece. Let Mike Tyson fight sharks and enjoy his journey,
its near unanimous Shavers or Foreman were the hardest punchers by fellow boxers, i will take their opinion
I can guarantee you that Ali was hit on the jaw more than twice throughout his career by harder punchers than Cooper and Frazier. It's readily available on footage. And I don't think Cooper's punching technique was better than the likes of Liston or Foreman either. Ali took his left hook just fine in their rematch. Here's Foreman's actual quote. "I thought he was just one more knockout victim until, about the seventh round, I hit him hard to the jaw and he held me and whispered in my ear: 'That all you got, George?' I realized that this ain't what I thought it was." Foreman makes it clear that what psyched him out was Ali brushing off a hard punch of his which landed on the jaw and then still being able to taunt him afterwards. You can't just say "people close to him" and then act like it proves anything. Who said it? What information did they have access to which amounted to anything more than speculation? If you've read up on Liston's life, it shouldn't be hard to produce a couple names and quotes. And unless they actually saw a birth certificate or one of the census reports or something like that, the only thing which could be conclusive is something Liston told them himself. Otherwise, their view is just an opinion, and no more official than that of anyone posting on this forum trying to guess when Liston was born, and I don't see any reason to take their word over that of his mother or other family members, even with the documented inconsistencies surrounding those testimonies. And regarding Liston's physical appearance, years of drug and alcohol use coupled with everything else he experience in life could have caused him to look older than he actually was. Sure, that doesn't prove he wasn't older than he claimed, but that's just the crux of it. Guessing that he was older than claimed based on his appearance and attempting to explain why he might have looked older than he was are both just that, guesses, nothing more. And do you have a source for that autopsy report?
I know, I know Grey who is second though? but onto the important stuff old sage would Suga Valuev take Georges lunch?
People focus too much on who hit "harder". Its the timing of a punch, snap, to create an explosion at the target. On the point of the chin without the opponent seeing it. A guy could take a harder punch without going down because he braced himself that fraction of a second.
yea so dumb to say if he couldnt nobody else could earn always used to let people get away once they was hurt dont know why
anybody who says the old quote of earn hit the hardest is dumb it was boxers after him who hit harder and with better aim
im tired of that dumb quote I will take his opinion that's real dumb cause those boxers who said that didnt fight all the hardest hitters of all history so why take anybody's word vid shows harder hitters and no man said that it's easy to see on vid which means vid proof goes over words it shows a person is like a programmed robot saying quotes like ill take his word or other ones like George always beats joe even thought joe fought way better when he was in shape the match wouldnt be the same so no reason to say joe would be dominated the same
Dempsey without the neutral corner rule, maybe? He has the power, speed, and left hook to knock Ali down with a lucky shot. Once that happens, Dempsey can stand over Ali and whack him with those tiny 1919 gloves every time Ali's knee leaves the canvas. It's neither sporting nor a terribly likely scenario, but it would technically fulfill your conditions.
