who did liston beat to be so highly regarded as good??

[BKM-]

Loosing to Ali aint that bad. Quitting on your mother****ing stool in the half of the fight is bad.

[butterfly1964]

Loosing to Ali aint that bad. Quitting on your mother****ing stool in the half of the fight is bad.

he had a torn shoulder.

[Southpaw Stinger]

Dropping the second fight was a nightmare!

[SuzieQ49]

what does everyone here think of liston's win resume?


where does listons win resume rate with other heavyweight champions?

[Da Iceman]

lets see liston fought patterson, and thats about it, floyd is a all time great so if liston beat him i guess he is great.

[butterfly1964]

lets see liston fought patterson, and thats about it, floyd is a all time great so if liston beat him i guess he is great.

he's definetely better than tyson.

[Southpaw Stinger]

he's definetely better than tyson.

Definatly, Liston was a great fighter!

[Verstyle]

he's definetely better than tyson.

patterson aint better then tyson if thats who u were talkin about. or evn if u were talkin about liston your dead ****in wrong there also

[mokele]

I saw some of Liston's later fights

Id say its easy to look back at a fighter from 50 years ago and say "Who did he fight?"

Many boxing experts, who were around to see him fight and all the champions since then still consider Liston to be without question an all time great.

His record is great and the manner of his victories speak for themselves.http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=009031

Tyson himself regards Liston as an incredible heavyweight.

What is generally unknown is that Sonny Liston was still very good after he lost the 2nd fight with Ali. He won his next 14 fights in a row and several of his opponents were good heavyweights like Gerhard Zech, Henry Clark, Amos Johnson and Amos "big train" Lincoln. I wish I could remember the fights of Liston's that I saw during the twilight of his career. I was only a kid but I saw a few. I missed his devastating loss to Leotis Martin though. Liston was 37 years old during that fight, and his legs were long since gone. His jab was still serious though and his power had not disappeared right until the end.

[butterfly1964]

patterson aint better then tyson if thats who u were talkin about. or evn if u were talkin about liston your dead ****in wrong there also

did i say patterson? no, i meant liston.