Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston | SPECIAL BEFORE THE 1st FIGHT | Documentary

[@BOXINGLEGENDS]

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[@luckynhlanhlatshabalala2475]

Thanks for this wonderful video.

[@jovicanedeljkovic1885]

Business is important, not humanity. Not only was he smart, but he also had the strongest punch of all time. His giant fists pounded like a giant slash hammer. The media and false propaganda destroyed Sonny Liston more than anything else. Muhammad Ali did not beat Liston, but journalists and all other media even in his 47 years of life after numerous victories. Sad, Very sad. His glory.

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[@oladman9058]

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANYONE IN SPORTS WHO CAN PUT WORDS TOGETHER AS ALI DID.

[@gregorycooper8528]

💯💯💯Thank you !

[@bobbyhulll8737]

Why have I never seen this before? great footage .. in ring and out

[@russellcampbell9198]

Great upload. I have always been fascinated by this event. In '64, this fight, The Beatles and James Bond introduced the 60's as it came to be - and away we went.

[@denniseudela411]

This special has a lot of parallels with the Rumble in the Jungle Fight with Big George Foreman. In both fights, mainly because of Ali's opponents were the hardest punchers of their time, he was the VERY underdog.

[@briankoller2750]

Ali was the young guy vs Liston and the old guy vs Foreman. Ali too fast for either of big punchers

[@kojakarmstrong7898]

Who ever uploaded this video thank you

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Thx to u

[@arifnewazfarazi3203]

Really it’s an amazing footage of boxing history.

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All the Thanks for you man for uploading such a historic video that includes clips that I´ve never seen before. Im really thankful for that to you! I hope this video gets more recognition as it deserves. All the best!

[@BOXINGLEGENDS]

Thank you for watching this video

[@leslieorr2636]

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[@SSR175]

Sonny Liston was the scariest heavyweight in the world and Ali didn't just beat him, he toyed with him. People back then had no idea that this was no upset. We were seeing the rise of the greatest heavyweight champion in history.

[@DrooledOn]

One was old and the other wasn’t. Just like when Ali fought Larry Holmes and Berbick.

[@MrMarco855]

I'll try to be a help to you. You have a completely wrong idea about all of this. Ali toyed with nobody. Listion never attempted to land a single punch, both of their fights were fixed by the mob, Liston had to play along or possibly get killed if he didn't comply. Ali was barely an adult, he had no power for a heavyweight, the odds were 8 or 9 to 1 for a reason. Liston would have KO'd Ali in 1 to 3 rounds, Ali had no chance to handle liston and keep from getting KO'd. It's just the simple truth, 100 years from now it will still be the truth. Ali's handlers ducked Eddie Machen during the same period, they thought Ali was still too inexperienced and Machen was a tough guy. Ali never fought Machen, but the same handlers put 21 year old Ali in with the toughest man in boxing history. Why no fear of Liston but avoid Machen if not for a fixed fight?

[@MajikBoxx]

@@MrMarco855 Not true! In 1964 almost everyone - including Liston, the media, 'experts' and the mob - expected Liston to run through Clay (as he was still named), in 1 or 2 rounds. The second fight was definitely a fix but not the first. Ali was never KO'd even past his prime; post-ban from 1970: including against prime Quarry (2), Frazier (3), Norton (3), Foreman, Lyle, Shavers, then Holmes (where RSF in round 10 as 38 year-old Ali - already with Parkinson's and drained by too much thyroid meds - had not been fighting back) and then a young Berbick. No one could KO Clay/Ali and Liston was trying his level best to KO a blinded 'Clay' in round 5 of their 1st fight; he was not holding back. Perhaps if the second fight had not been postponed due to an Ali hernia, Liston who was apparently in great shape would have had a better chance than later on, but we'll never know. It should also be remembered that, even though the eventual second fight was a joke, a still young Ali had grown in weight and another half inch in height by that one, and his granite chin and boxing style were already all wrong for an ageing Liston. In some parts of both fights, Ali did indeed toy with Liston and not obvious at first, on closer scrutiny can be seen to be talking to Liston throughout their first fight during or after exchanges. Also, look again at the times during the fight when Clay kept his hands low and moved only his head while Liston's bombs missed by inches, before Ali struck back with rapid combos, sometimes talking to Liston and even cutting him below his eye. Liston was great but Clay/Ali was just greater, and the antidote to Liston (and all opponents during the 1960s in particular). Machen was aiming for a world title shot before and during Clay's rise. He fought high-ranked opponents between 1960 and '64 while Clay was developing; had 2 fights in 1964 including a loss to Patterson (between suffering from mental health problems that kept him out of the ring). Machen eventually fought Terrell for the WBA title stripped from Ali in '65 but lost. Ali beat both Patterson and Terrell in '65 and '67 respectively. He fought twice in '65 after the hernia operation then 5 times against top contenders (bar Brian London) in 1966. If Machen had won that fight, Ali would have eventually fought him instead of Terrell. With his religious beliefs and self-confidence, Ali didn't fear any opponent enough not to fight them and is unlikely to have been afraid of a hit-and-move fighter like Machen - as good and tough as Machen was.

[@nixon9346]

​@@MrMarco855first fights was no fix

[@PowerBattles]

@@DrooledOnListon was at his best in 1959 on camera and fought Ali at 64.Ali was at his best at 67 and fought Holmes on 80.Both were like 40 but Ali had parkinsons.

[@thespy7795]

The Man reviewing the films with Ali is Jim Jacobs, Mike Tyson's Future Manager. Ali was the one who ACTUALLY recommended Jacobs to D'amato about Managing Tyson with Bill Cayton. That's the reason Ali never denigrated Tyson. In Fact Ali gave Tyson a Great plug one time by suggesting the impossible....that Tyson could possibly have a chance to KO him. Even though Ali felt NO ONE could ever have beaten him in his Youth, the comment caused Sponsors and the Public to take Tyson seriously. Tyson later fired Cayton and ROONEY After Jacobs died of Cancer.

[@luckynhlanhlatshabalala2475]

Sir Sonny Liston doesn't get the respect he deserves.

[@SmoothGoats]

Yeah man he got murdered by the mob 😢

[@ViceAdmiralVasilyArkhipov]

For real

[@charlesstevens4247]

Man I remember these times and this footage brings my Father back to life "Cholly Liston is gonna kill that young boy with that big mouth"!! It was everything ,the young v.s the old, white v.s black and most of all "Joe Louis woulda kilt im" at all the Barbershops and Variety stores, this fight had the Worlds attention.

[@MrMarco855]

Your father didn't know the fight was fixed, otherwise he knew what he was talking about. Ali wouldn't have fought Liston if the fight was real, he was frail and 21, Liston was a tiger that could box with anyone.

[@gregharris8777]

"Told the clown which round he's going down". Genius!

[@idrissalisu3688]

That this man says all this off the top of his head is amazing.

[@LikeAGentlemanPlease]

Ali had them bars but Sonny’s rebuttals and clap back was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@michealwyllie9763]

The greatest and most entertaining boxer ever in history and still is

[@abootwallysohomow7086]

This is what you call Mohammad Ali, if you never happen to know him !!! Greatest boxer of all time!! RIP in peace now after all tribulations you unduly faced !!!

[@DrooledOn]

He was known as clay at this time though.

[@MrMarco855]

What tribulations?

[@joshuahall1581]

Ali didn't have to go through anything... at least in the comparison of Liston, he was a middle class quarter white black guy in the south which had a college education, was literate, could've found a job even if he lost to Sonny Liston to support himself, he was a muslim, a draft dodger, and he named himself after the Prophet Muhammad who was a white Arabian slave owner who owned black slaves in Africa and professed himself as king of the world rather than keeping his name in which was named after Cassius Herman Clay whom was an abolitionist in the south that helped black slaves to be free.

[@abudujana13]

Thanks for the video, BOXING LEGENDS

[@andrewmartin538]

Listen was a very good boxer, as you can see from this footage. Not just a slugger.

[@nikosalexopoulos8697]

I think Liston was one of the best who ever stepped in a boxing ring. Very talented guy, but also very unlucky..his story is really sad.

[@bigdummy5574]

Liston didn’t train for this fight because he grossly underestimated Ali

[@nikosalexopoulos8697]

@@bigdummy5574 Yeah..thats true, but even if he trained hard for Ali i dont think he would have had much of a chance. Ali at that time, he was from another planet!

[@bigdummy5574]

@@nikosalexopoulos8697 i agree Ali was too much speed and power

[@bryonwatkins1432]

Very true!!!!

[@henrya773]

True these were legends.

[@jamiewulfyr4607]

Awesome footage.Some of this I have never seen before.Thank you for sharing.

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[@tectorpettersson]

Liston working the speedbag is a dream

[@peterswarpeterson3493]

Brilliant footage 👏thanks for uploading 👍 you got yourself a new subscriber. Keep up the good work. Stay safe everyone

[@BOXINGLEGENDS]

Thank you very much ...soon new content...

[@kevinmunday5782]

Those that think this was fixed, just look at Sony Listons battered Face afterwards........

[@russellcampbell9198]

You got it.

[@jamiewulfyr4607]

I think most of the contention was around the rematch.

[@dannyhazelton2052]

@@jamiewulfyr4607 yes the phantom punch

[@debo750]

People had to love interviewing ali cause he would make the laugh.

[@trinitystupidity5458]

Always imagined Liston to have a deeper, sinister sounding voice. He comes across as a soft spoken man.

[@brandonhigh1191]

He was from what I've heard from people that new him he was soft spoken and had a nice smile a friendly and humble gentleman

[@lloydkline1518]

Sonny liston didn't have muhamma ali legendary charm & great looks

[@mobetter25]

Just like tyson, but à destroyer.

[@vantheman1238]

The first Liston, Cleveland Williams fight was in 1959, 5 years before the Ali, Liston fight. Liston was at his peak in “59, and well past it in “64.

[@MrMarco855]

From where did you get this? Liston was 26 when he fought Williams, 31 when the Ali fixed fight took place in Miami. Born on May 8th, 1932.

[@theskeptic2010]

Liston was pushing 40 years old or more when he fought Clay for the first time. He was very likely born in 1922, not 1932.

[@adewaleibraheem3974]

@vantheman Whatever the case, Liston was still champion and nobody could beat Liston except Ali

[@eastcoastshine2009]

Listen carefully to Sonny voice ...he sounds like a guy close to middle age. They are several rumors Sonny was 44 at the time of the Clay fight. In fact In this very video the reporter tells Liston that Clay thinks Liston is a 45 yr old man

[@chipschannel9494]

Ali was 31 when he beat George Foreman , who was 24 and in his Prime or how old George was ,when he regained the title .

[@syedfayaz2149]

"But Ali feared Liston to Death"🥊💥🥊👑

[@chipschannel9494]

Sonny’s music was excellent.

[@syedfayaz2149]

Ali is the poet with iron fists 👊💥🥊

[@maienduo]

Great footage

[@BOXINGLEGENDS]

Thanks Nava

[@ballhawk387]

"That was no fight, that was a rabbit hunt" LMAO!

[@mobetter25]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MrMarco855]

A fixed act.

[@bobbyhulll8737]

Who gives this a thumbs down ? Wtf

[@thegoat6116]

1:42 ALI: the odds should be three and a half to one that you wont show up for the fight! sonny: the odds should be ten to nothing that you dont last for the first round. sonny liston was a fucking savage lol.

[@theskeptic2010]

But Liston, like everyone else, underestimated Ali. He was surprised in the first round - he expected another easy payday.

[@nikosalexopoulos8697]

Your material is really notable man!! Thanx for sharing.! Your channel is really nice too!

[@BOXINGLEGENDS]

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[@nikosalexopoulos8697]

@@BOXINGLEGENDS You speak Greek man?!

[@BOXINGLEGENDS]

Just couple words ... greek aderfi :)

[@nikosalexopoulos8697]

@@BOXINGLEGENDS Nice to hear that.! Χαιρετισμούς λοιπόν απο Ελλάδα.! 😊

[@boetr7014]

Sonny Liston was laser focused during his training. And these footages show him as far more personable than we have been made to believe.

[@michaelmooney7341]

Sonny in his forties. Had that shoulder injury asked for 6 month extension but they wouldn't give it

[@theskeptic2010]

Yep, Sonny was actually older than anyone imagined, and wasn't in very good shape. Still, he was at that point a formidable fighter.

[@eastcoastshine2009]

He also awfully inactive recent years. Look at his record from 1961 leading into Clay fight. Liston fights only 4 times and hadn't been past the 1st round in almost 3 years. Liston was ill prepared for someone like Clay even without his injury situation

[@MichaelCorleone_]

People say Ali had a sharp tongue, Sonny Liston matched his every line lol

[@johnohill463]

@10:30 MINUTES .. Ali's right hand was deceptively powerful. He numbed quite a few fighters with it.

[@MrMarco855]

It was a mosquito bite to Liston, both fights were fixed or Ali takes a nap.

[@brandonhigh1191]

I had a former employer at a taco johns in nebraska who grew up down the street from sonny list on and he said that sonny was was really nice and good with the kids in the neighborhood my employer a white man said the kids really liked him he was a. Good guy and that they always wanted him 2 win

[@StFidjnr]

41:34 now we'll see the craziest weigh-in in all boxing history

[@johnaugsburger6192]

Thanks so much

[@midnighttrucker19]

26:14 you can see Cleveland Williams eyes begin to bother him. Shortly thereafter Liston knocks him out. Liniment

[@MrMarco855]

Please.

[@Razah.]

correct, he was a dirty fighter

[@pjmac550355]

To this day nobody has made a good documentary about the Ali Liston drama. The first fight was universally viewed as fixed. That made the lead up to part 2 that much more intriguing. No state would sanction the rematch so they had to hold the fight at some small town in Maine

[@joachimcoonan6255]

What a character!

[@tonym994]

that is some outstanding slide blues guitar, as Sonny skips rope. I don't know if it's Son House, or some other legend. Liston liked authentic R&B.

[@polskiuall4162]

Great video!!! WAs this a network show? Where did you find it?

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We have some little archive ;)

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We already put couple on our channel try to find it :) ...thank you for watch this one

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we try to be original so that almost every fight has an overture and an epilogue afterwards

[@connshawnery6489]

Very cool 😎

[@maniakgaib]

I shook up the world...

[@StFidjnr]

5:42 for the longer version of clay's prediction on the day he signed the fight contract to fight sonny liston

[@nepaliguy6537]

jeez look at the size of liston

[@MrMarco855]

He would have abused Ali if both fights weren't fixed.

[@nepaliguy6537]

@@MrMarco855 stop the cap

[@kantovagrant3194]

@@nepaliguy6537 No cap, think about it, why would you loose money betting on Sonny if he is the 11 to 1 favorite. If he won, the people that bet on him would only get a third of their money back.

[@nepaliguy6537]

@@kantovagrant3194 ffs man

[@markwint605]

Question for people who lived then what was the biggest upset. Clay vs liston or Ali vs foreman. Just a question.

[@russellcampbell9198]

Liston V Clay. Clay was not expected to last one round and some reporters had checked out the best route to the hosptal to see Cassius in the ICU. . Although many thought Ali might be killed by George.

[@bobbyhulll8737]

Ali was 4-1 underdog for Foreman , he was 8-1 be Liston

[@russellcampbell9198]

@@bobbyhulll8737 Yes. I think of the 48 major boxing reporters/commentators the vote was 46 for Liston, two for Clay. And the two had some sort of hunch due to a horse with a name that had Cassius or Clay (can't recall) in it that unexpectedly won a race.

[@pepecomenepe3233]

The George Foreman is the biggest upset but Ali fight better vs Liston

[@bobbyhulll8737]

@@pepecomenepe3233 sorry not the case the official odds say that the Liston fight was a bigger upset officially

[@williejeanfrancois1681]

RIP to the ali

[@tectorpettersson]

What song is Liston listening to in training?

[@itsgleneaton4883]

Cleavland was a very strong puncher as well so Sonny showed he’s got some pretty good skills as a boxer and can take some really good punches. I think when Liston and Ali got into a clench he should have let loose to his head. If he had landed one clean punch and didn’t stop then he might have won. He just didn’t realize how great of a mover Ali was and underestimated him and got frustrated because he expected it to be an easy fight and thought he didn’t have a chance and quit. That’s where Rocky Marciano would have done his best and picked it up. Where Rocky differed from the other hard punchers was he didn’t know what the word quit means. But Sonny seemed like a nice man and a gentleman. Like Duran people make them out to be monsters but in life they showed a lot of heart. But they got in a hell of a lot of street fights as well.

[@MrMarco855]

He had 100 easy openings, but under orders of the mob to dive.

[@أحمدالصاعدي-ك3ل]

Clay was sensation upon sensation.

[@davidwanjala4192]

Great video, but couldn't it have ended in the actual fight?

[@BOXINGLEGENDS]

Thx for comment...here u can see end of the fight kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXPdgH-tbLCJd6s

[@MrMarco855]

There was no actual fight.

[@StFidjnr]

5:54 reference to that fight contract signing

[@StFidjnr]

43:38 Clay's prediction 43:42 Liston's prediction

[@adrianboshoff1582]

My goodness me Sonny.. you spoke like a long lost whatever... ghastly...

[@ATATURKdusmanlarininAMK_NJ]

I mean yes ima Big ali fan but come on bro ain't no body in the world beating this prime ali bro like 4 real this guy was sumtin else in his prime lol God damnn it

[@MrMarco855]

Liston breaks him in 2 pieces had the fights been real. Both fixed by order of the mob.

[@ATATURKdusmanlarininAMK_NJ]

@@MrMarco855 just sf morro

[@shadamin7184]

35:32 what is that lol

[@brmillgr]

the original HBO 24/7

[@tyroneprice6642]

Muhammad Ali, Sonny Liston and Joe Louis were all great fighters . Cleveland Williams got shot in the chest with a 350 magnum reported by Ali and never was a good fighter again.

[@sccc6758]

Watch sonny training in the 1st fight then wwtch how he trained for tje 2nd fight. As far as trhe difference in soeed bag technique. Thwt depends on the size of the bag

[@kojakarmstrong7898]

Wuts the name of the blues artis sonny listens to

[@fernandojuarez9897]

78 night train is the song sonny liked to workout to

[@Jj-ty7qh]

This is before boxing started juicing and high tech got involved. Natural men fighting with just their skills wit and heart.

[@bryonwatkins1432]

What the fuck?!?!? Of all i have studied about Ali, never heard the one about the kids wanting to go to the fight!!!!

[@brunotomines675]

RIP Ali

[@cezabose]

Sonny was trash talking back at Ali 😂😂😂😂😂😂 .

[@Mx.Motivation1]

What did Ali say just after "I saw Sonny Liston a few days ago"??

[@siakajanneh8237]

"Aren't he ugly, he's too ugly to be the world Champ, the world Champ should be pretty like me"🤣🤣🤣

[@StFidjnr]

1:26 I think sonny liston does has a point

[@robstonez2284]

35:40 u can barley see his punch .

[@IsmaïlBendrris]

رحمت الله على محمد علي

[@kojakarmstrong7898]

Liston and Williams boxed

[@nosholoozisreil2435]

Bab man

[@setirizok7298]

You people are nuts if you think sonny unintentionally lost to Ali! The second fight proved it. Sonny was the greatest!

[@Gertzy41]

Daint matter if liston is 31 or 81 ! Hez the champ and thats all thats matter !😢

[@ftwau_5tm768]

Sonny Liston vs Mike Tyson who's winning

[@mobetter25]

Liston, jab and reach to much for tyson.

[@kantovagrant3194]

Liston had too much power for Tyson to take...plus Liston was Tyson's idol, so he might've frozen in place if they fought.

[@paxguns]

Unfortunately he had one fight too many.

[@StFidjnr]

3:32 ain't he ugly

[@lloydkline1518]

Sonny liston was a invincible & bonecrushing punching power & young sonny listen 1950/ very early 1960s would put muhammad ali to sleep on the canvas

[@MrMarco855]

Same thing in 1964 if the fights hadn't been fixed.

[@soentaradavid8928]

，

[@Yoteyawezekana]

That boy could talk. Alzheimer's took thus gift away

[@richardmilliken8705]

Parkinson's disease & CTE.

[@arioskarsson9843]

Muhammad Ali was a great fighter but he was the most shithouse trash talker ever in the boxing history I respect him as a boxer but not as a person, it was a shame at Liston was way to old when he fought Ali Liston in his prime would have smashed him. Sonny Liston as a boxer and person are one of the greatest

[@asmrnaturecat984]

Ali's shittalking is what brings money to these boxers. They talkshit to each other, but after the fight they thanked ali for the money.

[@lovelyhiphop7528]

Fight was fixed, fools. Sonny was a freak of nature, ripped through half the leaders of the mob and paid with his life. Won't see the likes of him again. R.I.P.

[@bobbyhulll8737]

This fight wasn’t fixed ..

[@jamiewulfyr4607]

The first fight I honestly believe that Ali outboxed Liston.The 2nd fight I will honestly never know one way or the other.

[@bobbyhulll8737]

@@jamiewulfyr4607 agree

[@nikosalexopoulos8697]

You are a fool who believes in conspiracy theories. Liston was indeed a freak of nature and a great fighter, but couldnt match a prime Ali. Ali was the best ever stepped in a boxing ring.

[@lovelyhiphop7528]

Nah, it is well documented that Sonny fell of a ladder and damaged his left shoulder before the fight. Which is why he's not snapping his jab out the same, he is throwing it forward instead of side on with full extension. They told Sonny he had to fight anyway as the fight was fixed.

[@StFidjnr]

1:26 I think sonny liston does have a point

[@StFidjnr]

3:32 ain't he ugly