Sonny Liston 1952 Look at his Reach

[sonnyboyx2]

[Schmerzen]

liston was a monster..
never saw this, thanks

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Lol... imagine being a kid in the ams, and eating one of those hooks while you are jabbing at him.

[Holtol]

Yeah he had close to the longest arms in history. I remember a while back I was watching a boxing show on TSN hosted by Russ Anber and he had George Chuvalo on as a guest. Chuvalo was exsplaining how tough Liston was and he was at ring side and Liston would never go down from a phantom punch like that and how the fix was in. And he talked about Listons punching power and exsplained how Liston had the biggest hands in heavyweight history and this helped make his punching power even more devastating because he had less padding in the gloves around his knuckles then other boxers because the gloves have to go around a bigger surface while being the same weight as the opponents gloves which I had never thought of before watching the show. I think Chuvalo said if Ali had not have beat Liston he was the next to have a shot at him.

[Wild Blue Yonda]

84" wingspan --- the equal-second longest in HW Championship history. He is tied with Lennox Lewis & one inch short of Primo Carnera --- two men much, much bigger (in most regards, including height) than Liston.

Man was an orangutang. He had other unusually big dimensions, too. Neck, & hands.

[Scott9945]

84" wingspan --- the equal-second longest in HW Championship history. He is tied with Lennox Lewis & one inch short of Primo Carnera --- two men much, much bigger (in most regards, including height) than Liston.

Man was an orangutang. He had other unusually big dimensions, too. Neck, & hands.

Supposedly Liston's fist was 15 inches, but if you actually measure that with tape it seems impossible for anyone except maybe Andre the Giant. If Sonny's fists really were that big it would help explain the devastating effect they seemed to have.

[DarkTerror88]

Charles Sonny Liston is the greatest argument "nature over nurture" in boxing can have.

[sonnyboyx2]

84" wingspan --- the equal-second longest in HW Championship history. He is tied with Lennox Lewis & one inch short of Primo Carnera --- two men much, much bigger (in most regards, including height) than Liston.

Man was an orangutang. He had other unusually big dimensions, too. Neck, & hands.

Liston's reach is very debatable the shortest i have ever read it to be is 84" and the longest 89" i once read that he could not get his fist when clenched into the bottom of a standard sized bucket (They musta been like ham-shanks)

[JAB5239]

Supposedly Liston's fist was 15 inches, but if you actually measure that with tape it seems impossible for anyone except maybe Andre the Giant. If Sonny's fists really were that big it would help explain the devastating effect they seemed to have.

How exactly is the fist measured?

[Scott9945]

How exactly is the fist measured?

I can't claim to know this as fact, but I would assume that the middle of the hand when a fist is made using a measuring tape for the circumference.

One thing I know is that no matter how you measure it, 15" is outrageous for someone who isn't a giant. I've shaken hands with Vitali Klitschko and George Foreman. Vitali's hands weren't that big at all. George's were.