SONNY LISTON vs CLEVELAND WILLIAMS [ 1 ]

[@nikolailic431]

They both had insane physique forget bodybuilders, thats how men should look

[@BigChicken849]

Sonny At His Best. Rest In Peace The Big Cat Williams And Sonny Liston

[@辻本愛子-c1j]

KOしたラッシュで、1発だけ良いパンチがあったと思います。

[@FRANCISCOJOSEHAUTEQUESTTCOUTIN]

Frizalz Queen of knockout 😊

[@Grizzlied2525]

*For 9 years from 1955 to 1964 Liston decimated his division. There were 14 fighters at the top during Sonny’s time who flatly refused to fight him:* 1. Joe Frazier's entire management team refused. 2. Ingemar Johannson refused. 3. Bob Foster refused. 4. Ernie Terrell refused. 5. Jimmy Ellis refused. 6. Bob Baker refused. 7. Henry Cooper refused on public television. 8. Karl Mildenberger refused. 9. Jerry Quarry's father/trainer refused to let Jerry fight Sonny. 10. Tommy Jackson refused. 11. Doug Jones refused. 12. Harold Carter refused. 13. Joe Erskine refused. 14. Bob Cleroux refused. *That's 14 top fighters who refused to fight Sonny, including 4 Champions!!! Sonny Liston is the most ducked fighter in boxing History!!!* *On the other hand Rocky was '"NEVER'" ducked!!! Moore, Walcott and LaStarza repeatedly petitioned to fight Rocky for years!!! "'EVERYONE'" wanted to fight little Rocky because he couldn't hurt you the way Sonny could!!!* *"I saw Sonny Liston do something that I never saw any Heavyweight do. Just walk through the whole division all the way to the title. He had said his age was 32 when he fought Ali. But I know for a fact he was at least 40 which means he didn't even hit the pro ranks until his mid 30's. Now if Sonny had better upbringing and hadn't spent so much time in the streets and in jail, we might have been talking about him as the Greatest Heavyweight ever."* - Emanuel Steward *This is important: Little Rocky Quit* (before Sonny went back to jail) *after a mere 7 year career because he found Perversion was much more satisfying. He never went anywhere without his little suitcase full of Toys @ THE ROCK Sports Illustrated Vault Aug\23\1993.*

[@МолдобекУсенов]

Sonny Liston is all class!.Great boxing!

[@Grizzlied2525]

Muhammad Ali said, *"Even in his prime, Rocky Marciano had no chance with me. First thing, he is too little. Less than five foot ten to my six foot three inches. I’d overwhelm him. I’d lay on him in the clinches like a big old grizzly bear, and I’d smother his insides out. He was too small to reach me from outside. I’d jab him twenty to one. Rocky had a face that cut easily. Can you imagine what my stinging jab would do to those weak eyes? By round three, Rocky would look like he ran into a lawn mower. How could he beat me? No way, is how."* This was before three Frazier fights, three fights with Ken Norton, and the George Foreman proved Ali's hypothesis. Ali too big, Ali too fast, Ali too strong a puncher, Ali too fast a jab, and the bad news, Ali too tough, takes heavy punishment well. I'm afraid Ali was right. Marciano, while a formidable opponent, wouldn't have lasted long. Regardless of the script, Rocky seemed unable to pull his punches, whereas Ali could come within a fraction of an inch to making it look extremely real. Our problem was that Ali was getting madder and madder as Rocky thumped one hard shot after another off his ribs. By the end of the second day, Ali stopped the filming to have a word with Rocky, *"Rocky, you're supposed to be pulling those body shots. You aren't, and they're hurting my ribs. Now, if we're going to have a real fight, then you will not be able to land those shots without me peppering your face with hard left jabs and right hooks, and if you do by chance land a body shot, you're going to take back a stinging right hand to the nose to break it again. Now, do we play movie or do we play boxing?"* Marciano knew he was wrong. Secretly, he wanted to find out if Ali could take his best shots. To his surprise, he found that Ali could. End of the problem. If you don't take anything away from this chapter, let me reiterate, commit this to memory: "Ali would have beat Marciano if they had ever really fought." *Tales from the 5th Street Gym: Ali, the Dundees, and Miami's Golden Age of Boxing by Ferdie Pacheco 2010. Chapter 10, When Ali took on Marciano - The Fake Fight*

[@willmac5642]

Liston at his best

[@RC-gf8cs]

How many his fights were fixed ?

[@kerrykelaher2607]

" pleasure island 🏝 😎

[@tloustrats]

Liston took tremedous punishments here and did not even flinch but some will tell you Ali knocked him out cold in the rematch 😂

[@sirfultonbishop]

Big George stated once that Williams was the hardest hitting opponents he’d ever faced.

[@tloustrats]

@@sirfultonbishop yes one of the hardest because he sparred a lot with him and sonny after his olympics win. And this was Williams after being shot

[@Stout_Krout]

*"I saw Sonny Liston do something that I never saw any Heavyweight do. Just walk through the whole division all the way to the title. He had said his age was 32 when he fought Ali. But I know for a fact he was at least 40 which means he didn't even hit the pro ranks until his mid 30's. Now if Sonny had better upbringing and hadn't spent so much time in the streets and in jail, we might have been talking about him as the Greatest Heavyweight ever."* - Emanuel Steward

[@TheGreatestBoxing7]

Heavyweight slugfest

[@danielhkhk7283]

And then came Ali.

[@عليحيدر-ش5ذ7س]

شِكِرَا thank yue

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