The Modern History of Heavyweight Title Fights: Liston vs. Clay

[SweetPea]

Thread idea:

I enjoyed doing the "Scoring Controversial Fights" thread a while back. I was thinking about a new thread that would have a similar format.

Youtube has almost every heavyweight title fight of the past 40-45 years. There are only a few missing. I think it'd be interesting to watch all the heavyweight title fights in chronological order, starting in the early 1960s or so. I'd post a fight every couple days, and we could discuss/score/debate each fight. Then after a few days, I'd post the next fight. We'd go thru the title reigns of Liston, Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Ali II, Holmes, Tyson, Holyfield, etc.

Anyone interested in this? If enough people show interest, I think it would make an interesting topic.

Here's the first fight of the thread:

Floyd Patterson (38-2) vs. Sonny Liston (33-1)
Comiskey Park
Chicago, Illinois
Septermber 25, 1962

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[Hoggmeister]

good idea dude, count me in. the patterson and liston fights are a perfect example of what happens when one fighter is just too tough and strong for the other. no matter what strategy patterson would have used he would never have beaten liston.

[Bookkeeper]

Do it

[Gandalf]

Great thread idea. Im sure there are lots of fights I havent seen before.

[BIG H]

Cool idea - I'm in

[Kel]

Good thread idea.

Well lets see......I think Liston won that fight.

[ICB]

Yes i im in i tried to bump your old thread but it didn't seem to work, as for this fight. Floyd Patterson wasn't a natural Heavyweight and his chin, couldn't stand up to the bigger Heavyweights.

Plus he was intimidated by Sonny Liston which didn't make it easier, i think Floyd Patterson would have been one of the best Light Heavyweights of all time.

Its a shame he couldn't really pursue at Light Heavyweight, but i think he done well at Heavyweight considering his size. But Sonny Liston was simply too scary, too strong, too big, for Floyd Patterson.