Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #1257 w/Steve Sweeney:
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Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #1257 w/Steve Sweeney:
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Joe Rogen is fos. It was a tap, not a punch.
Liston lost due to a technicality:
"Strict interpretation of the knockdown/count rule states it is the referee's count and not the timekeeper's that is the official count. Furthermore, that count cannot be started until the fighter scoring the knockdown goes to and remains in a neutral corner. Ali did neither. Walcott never began a count in the ring because of Ali's non-compliance and his physical struggle with getting Ali to go to that neutral corner. "
TLDR: Liston got knocked down, and he stayed down because the ref had not yet moved Ali to the corner. When Ali was finally moved to the corner, he started the count, and sonny stood up. However, the time keepers pressured the ref to call a KO because the 10 seconds had passed, and so he did. This was incorrect, as the only thing that matters is the ref's count, and if the fight was continued as it was supposed to, Liston would've kept fighting.
💯 % fixed. Liston couldn't get sanctioned in N.Y., but the Chicago mob got him his title shot…& then got paid.
No one will ever convince me that Sonny didn't throw the fight. Yes it was a legit punch but it wasn't near enough to keep a fighting machine like Sonny Liston down. I'm sure Liston had his reasons for doing what he did, but I will always believe the Ali was lucky Sonny didn't come to fight that night. Just my opinion!
Its clearly a fixed fight, just look the way Sonny was fighting other fighters. And his jab is completöey diffrent. Sonnys jabs aren’t easy to escape but in Alis fight, anyone could escape them.