Quote Originally Posted by Saddo View Post
looks like he shared the ring with 2 world champs that night

I never realized that jersey joe walcott had been a ref before the Ali Liston fight for some strange reason I always thought the phantom punch fight was the only one he done.... not sure if i read that somewhere or because of the his ineptness in that fight just led me to think that.

turns out he had reffed quite a few before and then didn't ref another one after that till the 1978 (13 years after the liston fiasco)
Dude, now that you mention it, I thought the exact same thing.

Like they hired him for that fight as a novelty or something lol.