Yeah well its not a which came first the chicken or the egg kind of question. I mean the title says it all and the public could not care less about his perception of them. He never won them over because he never tried to. Its kind of twisted in a way because boxing has always been full of savory characters and bad ass fighters but it was not ready for Liston. Wrong era. Had he came along in the eighties he would have been Mike Tyson.

I find it disrespectful for him to say
Look at what it did to Joe Louis
after all he was Joes drug runner and most likely introduced him to heroin.