Quote Originally Posted by Master View Post
In that fight Liston still wanted to fight Ali, if he wanted to give up he would have stayed down for longer than the 10 count. He starts fighting again with Ali. So I think it was a legit punch.

Liston did get up, but I believe he thought the fight was over, in fact, if I remember right, the ref Joe Walcott, had fucked up the count, let the fight resume, but in meantime the timekeeper told Walcott the fight was over after the KD, and he stopped it. I still don't think the punch was hard enough to hurt Liston, it was all an act, but that's just me. I figure the mob made a killing on the 1st round KO.