Sonny Liston - great or ****e?

[Verstyle]

all i gotta say is **** and overhyped

[leff]

all i gotta say is **** and overhyped

he would whop tmike (im sorry)

[Mike Tyson77]

I mentioned something about Soony Listen the other day. The response I got was, "Can't no beat Sonny Liston!".


Even when you beat a guy like Sonny Liston, you never really beat him.


Sonny Liston and Mike Tyson can't be beat!

[The_One77]

Liston is one of the slowest punchers ive ever seen, the guy dosen't even throw combinations...he throws one punch at a time.
He couldn't even beat a blind Ali, lol.
I give him dues though, the guy could really punch and was one of the best heavyweights of the 60's.

[butterfly1964]

if foreman had liston reach,speed and skill he would still be champion

it's possible.

[butterfly1964]

all i gotta say is **** and overhyped

then what does that make your boy mike tyson?

[butterfly1964]

Liston is one of the slowest punchers ive ever seen, the guy dosen't even throw combinations...he throws one punch at a time.
He couldn't even beat a blind Ali, lol.
I give him dues though, the guy could really punch and was one of the best heavyweights of the 60's.

liston's handspeed was pretty damn good fool. if he was a slow puncher, then how come he ko'd patterson twice in one round?

[catskills23]

alis victories over liston mean as much as tyson's over larry holmes both were well past their best and both didnt train for the fight , liston beat nobody of note afterwards holmes beat contenders mercer and mcall and gave the great prime holyfield a tough fight . If anything tysons victory over holmes means more as holmes proved he had a lot more left .

[hollister]

he wasn't that much bigger than cassius clay. muhammad ali was a giant of a man himself. he was about 6'-3 1/2" weighed about 212 3/4lbs. and had an 83" reach in his prime.

I know Ali was taller, as Liston was about 6'1 I think.

But look at their arms, legs, waist, etc. in both fights.

In the first fight Ali was announced as 210 lbs. and Liston was

announced as 218 lbs. But to me, it looks like he's more than just 8 lbs. heavier than Ali that's all

[leff]

thinking about it i realize i allways thought clay looked small for his weight, mean he weight bout the same as foreman and didnt look nearly as beef.