ooh, right on the lower cheekbone, from behind, going down! You will fel like laying down when hit on that spot. And the fact that it was a man like Ali isn't really helping when hit there! O, man, i can feel his cheekjoint swelling up with water!
It sure doesn't look like that punch would take down Liston, but what would Liston's motive be to take a dive? If 'for the money' why not make the 'dive' more realistic? Might it have been to both collect on the 'dive money' AND to make clear that he Liston hadn't actually been beaten?
@ProNorden I think this punch actually was hard enough to knock down Sonny Liston. If you watch the fight you can see that Ali gave him a few combinations, making him already more vulnerable for a knockdown punch. Ali hits down, while Liston walk forward, straight into the punch, hence the name ''anchor punch''. I think, Liston did not want to get up anymore. He knew Ali would emberass him, if he got up. Maybe he wanted the controversy,so people might tink that Liston could take him.
he is so full of shit...fixed fight..if it was real he would have went to his corner and not acted the fool ..to much money on this to give Liston a chance to get up...but fixed..he can joke around all day.
liston didnt see the punch it was a reaction punch liston was lunging in with a jab got hit when he was off balance,he could have carried on but he knew he was gonna lose again, and ali was stood over him telling him to get back up he knew he was beat...liston says so himself in a qoute in alis autobiography by ted hauser..
"Exhausted"? "Hurt beforehand"? It was the FIRST ROUND, and Liston didn't take a single flush shot in the fight...including the light scuffing punch that he took before diving.
Ali immediately knew Liston had dived, which is why he got so angry and demanded that Liston to get up...if he had landed a hard, potentially fight ending punch, Ali would have been off celebrating. Ali's reaction proves Liston dived as much as Liston's obviously fake "stumble" when he tried to get up.
the punch was out of the blue and sonny never expected it plus it hit him on the temple my source angelo dundee is that enough oh what about the light tap ali gave frazier in manilla second or first round near rope it was super fast watch it the ali in manilla was the most scariest m.ali ever got to killingsome1 1louis 2ali 3foreman 4frazier
@comedy577 You can actually see Liston's head react to the punch. Not a phantom punch at all. But was it hard enough to make a champ quit? That is another matter.
@CassiusAli67 I agree, if you watch Ali vs Lyle (i think it was Ron Lyle if i remember right, anyways it was after the foreman fight,) Ali lays on the ropes for a couple rounds, and Lyle won some rounds because he just relaxed and roughed em up a bit instead of trying to knock him out. If Foreman wasn't so pissed off maybe the fight would've ended differently lol
Liston said he could have gotten up but he was afraid because Ali was jumping around in front of him he thought Ali would hit him as he got up. Even if Liston had gotten up, he was so demoralized from the last fight, he would have been beaten even worse than the first fight.
Ali fought weak-chinned Floyd Patterson twice, and Floyd finished on his feet both times. Against Norton, who had arguably an even weaker chin, Ali fought him three times without stopping or dropping him. Ali WAS NOT a one punch KO artist - his record proves that beyond a doubt. And yet he was mysteriously able to KO the iron-chinned Liston was one shot...with a punch that didn't even appear to land cleanly? Sorry, but that's just not credible.
Have you even SEEN Ali-Foreman? Foreman punched himself out, and was exhausted by the 8th round. It was his exhaustion - not Ali's power - that decided the match. Idiots like you shouldn't go around accusing others of being stupid.
@garethac81 But if you watch the fight you can hear the punch land, and the slow motion footage clearly shows the punch landing. I agree, Ali was not known as a one punch KO artist, but on occasion he did manage to drop his opponent to the canvas in a very convincing manner. e.g. his comeback fight against Oscar Bonavena in the 15th round amongst others. No one expected it and "boom" Bonavena was suddenly on the canvas. Not Ali's usual pattern but he was able to do it on occasion.
@garethac81 You can say what u like about records and punching power etc, but the thing is, sometimes ppl jus get lucky. A punch doesn't need to be that powerful to ko someone if they dont see it comin. Maybe Sonny dropped his eyes.
@CaptainArn no way no such thing as a fucking lucky punch, Sonny Liston was a tank, his armor was so thick, even hitting him would hurt someone, but the combination of speed, and sonny's exhaustion and stress in sonny's life, is what felled him from the punch ali threw.
Liston was "exhausted" after the knockdown? It was the 1st round!!! Come on, that's a ridiculous suggestion. As for Folley, he was over-the-hill and had already been KO'd 3 times before facing Ali...which hardly compares to Liston, who was never dropped or stopped before Ali. Folley technically wasn't a one punch KO victim, either, since Ali landed 2 right hands in quick succession to end the fight...but either way, if that's your only evidence of Ali's one punch KO power - I'm not convinced.
Oh, I'm "an ignorant Ali hater"? That's strange, considering I rate him as the best heavyweight of all-time, and the 2nd greatest P4P fighter of all-time. I don't need to pretend that Ali's KO of Liston was legitimate in order to appreciate Ali's greatness.
Name another fight in which Ali scored a one punch KO. Liston was "finished"? You need to watch the fight again...when Walcott stepped in, he was showing no signs of being hurt AT ALL. And after the knockdown, he only "collapsed" after watching Walcott for several seconds and realising that Walcott needed more time to count him out! His legs didn't even give way...he just pitched forward, as though he'd just fainted. A most UNconvincing simulation.
@thekingvietnam its ok.. im not into boxing ..but he is the greatest i just watched his speaches and his fights..i wish to shake his hand one day..but probobly it will never happen :(
I agree that Sonny Liston may have thrown the fight, still it was a great punch. It wasn't the most powerful, but the angle he hit him at and the fact that it was an unexpected counter also factor in. Ali's right hand was vicious. The fact remains that Ali won and would probably have won in later rounds if it had gone that far. Besides, Ali v. Liston II wasn't the fight that defined his career, the Joe Louis series did.
@delwoodworks "the Joe Louis series"? You meant to say Joe Frazier series, right? I'd agree with that if you tack on Ali's defeat of George Foreman. . .that win has to go down as one of the most incredible of all time.
Ali hit Liston with many much harder punches in their first fight. He had Sonny in trouble once or twice in that match, but Liston was never close to going down. This is why, when Liston went down the rematch, Ali screamed at him to get up - Ali's reaction betrayed the fact that he was instantly suspicious of Liston going down so easily, and he expected Liston to get straight back up again.
Riiiight...so having an intelligent conversation is "a waste of time", but wandering the Net giving people a "thumbs down" is a rewarding way to fill your day? *lol*
You're pathetic. AND you know nothing about boxing. And guess what? I'm not wasting any more of MY time talking to a stupid pissant like you. Happy "thumbing", moron.
Ali is hilarious here. I laughed pretty hard. But seriously lots of people thought Liston dumped here but he did not. In certain positions and hitting someone in certain areas it doesnt take as much to knock someone out. Today you would have seen 3 camera angles and the one behind Ali would have shown that he hit Liston right in the temple. Although Ali wasnt known as a knockoput artist but he had plenty of power plus he had a great jaw. Tons of heart. As a kid we all idolized him.
To ajdog15: Boxing isn't just about 'who punches harder.' If it was, you'd never have heard of Sugar Ray, Ali, Pernell Whitaker, and hundreds of other greats... Boxing is a science, you buffoon; and is not usually determined by power. Tyson punches harder than most anyone, but is certainly not considered alongside the list of greats mentioned above. He was a bully, and a front-runner who folded each and every time he faced someone who wasn't afraid of him.
nah kinglouie89 , if you look hard you can see liston was jabbin for the chin but ali weaved back quick so it looks like listons punch was low. Also this happened so much faster really, this clip is slowed down.
Mentioning Kimbo in a conversation about any old school legendary fighter (including mike tyson) is a disgrace. Kimbo should not be mentioned when you speak about Legends such as Ali, frazier, foreman, liston, tyson, louis, marciano, norton, shavers, sugar ray leonard, sugar ray robinson, holyfield, lewis and many more. Kimbo ain't that great...got dropped in 14secs by a guy who was 60pounds lighter and who proved to be the better fighter.
Looking at the film of the punch, there's no doubt Ali clocked him with a solid punch while Liston was unbalanced. Considering the speed of the punch, I doubt Liston had time to deliberately take a dive here. Whether or not Liston stayed down on purpose to avoid further beatings is a different argument, but this looks like a legitimate knockdown. I think Sonny just realized he wasn't going to do any better this fight than in the last one, and decided to stay down.
I agree liston definitely got hit did look at the way his skin folds up all of a sudden and his hands are nowhere near his body and he has not even able to lay a finger on the canvas yet.
I think the fight was fixed. there is no denying how fast that punch was, but it couldn't have been hard enough to put someone as physically tough as sonny liston down for that long. plus sonny's fall was ridiculus
There is nothing ridiculous about Liston's fall. You take that fast and hard of a blow to your temple and see what happens. You will become dizzy, you will stumble and you will fall. Physically tough has nothing to do with it. There is no muscle that can magically guard your temple and he simply couldn't get regain his balance. Liston may have decided to give up but he hated Ali way too much to have been paid off.
those are valid points but sonny felt that either the mafia, his old "freinds" or the black muslims ali's new friends would be very unhappy about a liston victory. ithink sonny decided to stow his hate so he could make some money and keep himself alive
Yeah see that sounds like the stuff from really bad made for TV movies. Why would the Nation of Islam threaten Liston? Ali beat him fair and square once before, and Ali had never lost a fight at that point. Liston wasn't much of a threat no matter how tough he was or had been at one point during his career. The point is Liston received a hard fast blow to the temple. There is no need to make up weird tales about the mafia or the NOI to explain the knockout. He lost, end of story.
itsgud2bdking you are full of shit, the faster the punch the more power it generates and at that speed it is no different from one of Tyson's hardest punches. Liston or not you are going down if you are hit cleanly with that and he hit him in the temple one of the worst places to be his of course he was going to stay down.
fast punching does not generate more power. Do you honestly think suga ray leonard was a knockout puncher? Ali admitted to tyson punching harder then him but that "phantom" puch would not knock sunny down because he got hit with a more solid shot a earlier in the round and it didn`t phase him
Ali is not a knockout puncher and never was. He told him to stand back up because he knew he took a dive.
Hahaha..."oh, it's fixed....oh, that punch wouldn't do it". Yeah. I don't see anybody here volunteering to let Ali, as crippled as he is today, stick that right hand into their face the way Ali did to Liston there. The dude got stuck. Sorry about your luck, Sonny. This was two asswhippings. At least he wasn't stupid enough to try for three.
fucken retard....doesnt anyone know that this fight was fixed?u think a lil bitch punch from ali could knockout a guy like sonny liston? the mafia paid him money to throw that fight...ehh stupid medagons
im also sure they paid Sonny Liston to put foreign substances on his gloves to blind Ali during the fight. ..Ali wins the fight hands down. Sonny Liston is a cheater.
nice to see someone actually has some brains...did you know the fight was fixed between the east coast mafia, (liston) and the muslims (Ali) i think Ali was about 7 to 1 against, a tempting target for any fix. Even Ali is taking the piss in this video, saying it with a pinch of salt
True that. Ali only threw TWO punches in that whole two minute fight and knocked Liston out - if you know top-level boxing that is simply not possible. But that was Ali.
ooh, right on the lower cheekbone, from behind, going down! You will fel like laying down when hit on that spot. And the fact that it was a man like Ali isn't really helping when hit there! O, man, i can feel his cheekjoint swelling up with water!
periesicsd 4 months ago
Did Ali make a gesture, before he had beaten liston ko?
MrFreemon1 7 months ago
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MrFreemon1 7 months ago
eh, I could take him.
chailizard 7 months ago
"Or you won't see it man!" More than a legend.
AhmadAlony123 7 months ago
@atomicflash500, @ceaaa22, @quidtucenam, @thezimmione, @garethac81,...
It sure doesn't look like that punch would take down Liston, but what would Liston's motive be to take a dive? If 'for the money' why not make the 'dive' more realistic? Might it have been to both collect on the 'dive money' AND to make clear that he Liston hadn't actually been beaten?
ProNorden 8 months ago
@ProNorden I think this punch actually was hard enough to knock down Sonny Liston. If you watch the fight you can see that Ali gave him a few combinations, making him already more vulnerable for a knockdown punch. Ali hits down, while Liston walk forward, straight into the punch, hence the name ''anchor punch''. I think, Liston did not want to get up anymore. He knew Ali would emberass him, if he got up. Maybe he wanted the controversy,so people might tink that Liston could take him.
michaelyouth 4 months ago
he is so full of shit...fixed fight..if it was real he would have went to his corner and not acted the fool ..to much money on this to give Liston a chance to get up...but fixed..he can joke around all day.
Atomicflash500 8 months ago
@Atomicflash500 shut the fuck up fuckhead!
Samsun55 7 months ago in playlist Muhammad Ali
Legends measure themselves to this man,
Ceaaa22 8 months ago
It's nice when a person like me can let their guard down and appreciate personality.
Muhammad Ali, who knew.
thezimmione 9 months ago
Damn, Jersey Joe Walcott was the referee? Never knew that.
Quidtucenam 9 months ago
A fighter like him only comes once in a millennium
BigboyDownStairs 9 months ago
Will Smith makes a good Ali in the film Ali...Speaks like him, acts like him....etc..!!
BENN345 9 months ago
That punch came from Ray Robinson, but I see that Floyd Mayweather used it in his career which came in handy.
Aztech355 10 months ago
he is hella funny i wish i new him and he is probably the closest thing to be fast as lighting
shahriyar100 10 months ago 2
Only if boxing was like this.
mrwaqy 11 months ago
..Awesome !!
SwaggerLikeUz 1 year ago
1 person is gay.
omgweed1 1 year ago
boxing isnt dead, everyone is just waiting for someone to come along who is half the fighter and a quarter of the showman that Ali was
brooklyn560 1 year ago
liston didnt see the punch it was a reaction punch liston was lunging in with a jab got hit when he was off balance,he could have carried on but he knew he was gonna lose again, and ali was stood over him telling him to get back up he knew he was beat...liston says so himself in a qoute in alis autobiography by ted hauser..
leighjohnharvey 1 year ago
Anyone who thinks Sonny Liston couldn't possibly get dropped froma punch as not powerful as that . . . Watch Anderson Silva vs Forrest Griffin.
If the guy is exhausted, an hurt beforehand, it doesn need to be that hard.
CaptainArn 1 year ago
@CaptainArn
"Exhausted"? "Hurt beforehand"? It was the FIRST ROUND, and Liston didn't take a single flush shot in the fight...including the light scuffing punch that he took before diving.
Ali immediately knew Liston had dived, which is why he got so angry and demanded that Liston to get up...if he had landed a hard, potentially fight ending punch, Ali would have been off celebrating. Ali's reaction proves Liston dived as much as Liston's obviously fake "stumble" when he tried to get up.
garethac81 10 months ago
@garethac81 Maybe I'm wrong, I've never seen the fight man
CaptainArn 10 months ago
mannnn lol gotta love this guy
Breakinankles99 1 year ago
i person did'nt see it
waneDX 1 year ago
imamfollower 1 year ago
@imamfollower actually he hit liston head
waneDX 1 year ago
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@imamfollower actually he hit liston chin snap his head
waneDX 1 year ago
i think this is the first time i've seen him at his normal self, instead of the eccentric stage persona he meticulously maintained
cerberusdest 1 year ago
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comedy577 1 year ago
@comedy577 You can actually see Liston's head react to the punch. Not a phantom punch at all. But was it hard enough to make a champ quit? That is another matter.
Wavecurve 1 year ago
the moment i hit sonny listen all those people blinked... haha priceless :D
nazirdjon 1 year ago
HAHAHA
Doggg033 1 year ago
I love this man!
headbangers5499 1 year ago
@CassiusAli67 I agree, if you watch Ali vs Lyle (i think it was Ron Lyle if i remember right, anyways it was after the foreman fight,) Ali lays on the ropes for a couple rounds, and Lyle won some rounds because he just relaxed and roughed em up a bit instead of trying to knock him out. If Foreman wasn't so pissed off maybe the fight would've ended differently lol
ysgvssfdh 1 year ago
@ysgvssfdh wasnt lyle ahead aswell
lee1990lee 1 year ago
@lee1990lee Looked that way to me, didn't quite see the whole fight though.
ysgvssfdh 1 year ago
HAHAAAA!!!! Hold ya eyes or you won't see it MAAAN!!!
okturus 1 year ago
Liston said he could have gotten up but he was afraid because Ali was jumping around in front of him he thought Ali would hit him as he got up. Even if Liston had gotten up, he was so demoralized from the last fight, he would have been beaten even worse than the first fight.
Rockyfan10060 1 year ago
muhammad ali had so much fun
supermike2164 1 year ago
Ali knew Liston took a dive. You can tell by the way he was taunting him to get up.
M14Mann 1 year ago
Ali fought weak-chinned Floyd Patterson twice, and Floyd finished on his feet both times. Against Norton, who had arguably an even weaker chin, Ali fought him three times without stopping or dropping him. Ali WAS NOT a one punch KO artist - his record proves that beyond a doubt. And yet he was mysteriously able to KO the iron-chinned Liston was one shot...with a punch that didn't even appear to land cleanly? Sorry, but that's just not credible.
garethac81 1 year ago
@garethac81 Then how did he knock out foreman so bad you stupid fuck?
Wow just because he didnt KO Norton or Patterson?!
Jayoh562 1 year ago
@Jayoh562
Have you even SEEN Ali-Foreman? Foreman punched himself out, and was exhausted by the 8th round. It was his exhaustion - not Ali's power - that decided the match. Idiots like you shouldn't go around accusing others of being stupid.
garethac81 1 year ago
@garethac81 But if you watch the fight you can hear the punch land, and the slow motion footage clearly shows the punch landing. I agree, Ali was not known as a one punch KO artist, but on occasion he did manage to drop his opponent to the canvas in a very convincing manner. e.g. his comeback fight against Oscar Bonavena in the 15th round amongst others. No one expected it and "boom" Bonavena was suddenly on the canvas. Not Ali's usual pattern but he was able to do it on occasion.
chomsky88 1 year ago
@garethac81 You can say what u like about records and punching power etc, but the thing is, sometimes ppl jus get lucky. A punch doesn't need to be that powerful to ko someone if they dont see it comin. Maybe Sonny dropped his eyes.
CaptainArn 1 year ago
@CaptainArn no way no such thing as a fucking lucky punch, Sonny Liston was a tank, his armor was so thick, even hitting him would hurt someone, but the combination of speed, and sonny's exhaustion and stress in sonny's life, is what felled him from the punch ali threw.
kalai131 1 year ago
@garethac81 ali had really good power before the 3 year layoff. goggle aili fight list and you will see
snoop11080 1 year ago
@garethac81
The punch did land my friend. But the question is just whether its force KO'd Liston.
Knowing that f=mxa in physics its plausible that Ali back then who was the fastest
at the time from heavyweights- welterweights could've generated the speed with his
mass to knock out Liston or at least knock him down. Even if Liston took a dive, it's not
as if he wouldve won the fight anyway. If you study physics and anatomy it's not
hard to realise the punch knocked down Liston.
musood6630 1 year ago
Liston was "exhausted" after the knockdown? It was the 1st round!!! Come on, that's a ridiculous suggestion. As for Folley, he was over-the-hill and had already been KO'd 3 times before facing Ali...which hardly compares to Liston, who was never dropped or stopped before Ali. Folley technically wasn't a one punch KO victim, either, since Ali landed 2 right hands in quick succession to end the fight...but either way, if that's your only evidence of Ali's one punch KO power - I'm not convinced.
garethac81 1 year ago
@Aurelio226
Oh, I'm "an ignorant Ali hater"? That's strange, considering I rate him as the best heavyweight of all-time, and the 2nd greatest P4P fighter of all-time. I don't need to pretend that Ali's KO of Liston was legitimate in order to appreciate Ali's greatness.
garethac81 1 year ago
@Aurelio226
Name another fight in which Ali scored a one punch KO. Liston was "finished"? You need to watch the fight again...when Walcott stepped in, he was showing no signs of being hurt AT ALL. And after the knockdown, he only "collapsed" after watching Walcott for several seconds and realising that Walcott needed more time to count him out! His legs didn't even give way...he just pitched forward, as though he'd just fainted. A most UNconvincing simulation.
garethac81 1 year ago
@thekingvietnam its ok.. im not into boxing ..but he is the greatest i just watched his speaches and his fights..i wish to shake his hand one day..but probobly it will never happen :(
9robke123 1 year ago
@9robke123 i'm glad to see sum1's not an ignorant dick
spinert 1 year ago
is he dead?? he is king of box. i guess..
9robke123 1 year ago
@9robke123 not yet but he very weak now maybe 2 years he will ... ( sorry i guess)
thekingvietnam 1 year ago
Great boxer and a great talker, a lot of laugh everytime he talks.
jimmychuang 1 year ago 3
my favorite boxers are:
-Manny Pacquaio
-Mike Tyson
-Muhammad Ali
i just noticed they all start with letter "M"
pNoYbLaCkB3AST 1 year ago
you wont see it maaaan! i love that
kx85rider79 1 year ago
My hero
kx85rider79 1 year ago
Even Ali can't talk about it without laughing!!
priapus56 2 years ago 10
He got his degree in Physics, I can tell.
Vrrooooooe The machine goes realy quick, vrooooooeee
pauloabelha 2 years ago 16
@NukeLok1 lame ..
shankthatup 2 years ago
What a fucking legend :)
TheCushsRightBoot 2 years ago 33
are his friend hippies or something??
jdotman09 2 years ago
This was from the 1960's bro.
furmountain21 2 years ago
real qick real quick
converter877 2 years ago
amazing
Ashroof91 2 years ago
this is classic, this is great, he is the greatest.
Mytubezbigger 2 years ago
this is precious stuff
theexcep 2 years ago
Beautiful lovely funny brilliant man,a gift to us all..
onlyjoetee 2 years ago
The Greatest of ALL Time
Eldentisto 2 years ago 6
I agree that Sonny Liston may have thrown the fight, still it was a great punch. It wasn't the most powerful, but the angle he hit him at and the fact that it was an unexpected counter also factor in. Ali's right hand was vicious. The fact remains that Ali won and would probably have won in later rounds if it had gone that far. Besides, Ali v. Liston II wasn't the fight that defined his career, the Joe Louis series did.
delwoodworks 2 years ago
@delwoodworks "the Joe Louis series"? You meant to say Joe Frazier series, right? I'd agree with that if you tack on Ali's defeat of George Foreman. . .that win has to go down as one of the most incredible of all time.
thebigmalkowski 2 years ago
he is like the most boastful but respectable guy ever hes brags about himself but at the same time is modest
ferretsareawesome121 2 years ago 4
lol no one steps to ali .. this man hurts
TheRey4you 2 years ago 2
lol haha Muhammad Ali is a joksta...but still the GREATEST
jetdatboy 2 years ago 9
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connor0cawood 2 years ago
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punch a heavy bag and youll be a knock out machine
im no boxer but im best fighter in my school
adams63 2 years ago
Yeah, go fuck yourself.
willfox12345 2 years ago
Douchebag
connor0cawood 2 years ago
Ali hit Liston with many much harder punches in their first fight. He had Sonny in trouble once or twice in that match, but Liston was never close to going down. This is why, when Liston went down the rematch, Ali screamed at him to get up - Ali's reaction betrayed the fact that he was instantly suspicious of Liston going down so easily, and he expected Liston to get straight back up again.
garethac81 2 years ago
agree with GARETHAC81.. ali was roaring at him 2 get up.
calbo555 2 years ago
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"Anchor punch"? Liston dived. Here's the evidence:
1) Ali was not a big puncher, and (to my knowledge) never scored another one punch KO
2) Liston had never been KO'd or even knocked down before fighting Ali
3) The knockdown punch was a cuffing blow; Liston's head didn't snap and his legs didn't give way
4) After Walcott botched the count, Liston got up and carried on fighting, showing no signs of being hurt
5) Liston had criminal connections who would be inclined to fix a fight.
garethac81 2 years ago
dont be a cunt
ali knoced him.
shutthefuckuploser 2 years ago
If you don't think Liston dived, let's see you back that up with an intelligent argument...
...and that goes for all the other douchebags who thumbed down my original post without having the guts (or the knowledge) to write a rebuttal.
garethac81 2 years ago
the minute he hit liston everyone blinked
shutthefuckuploser 2 years ago
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you get a THUMBS DOWN from me. And i dont need a reason.
IGotAllOfThat 2 years ago
Just out of curiousity, are you too stupid to have an intelligent debate, or do you just know fuck all about boxing...or both?
garethac81 2 years ago
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Just out of not caring about "debating" online. YOu get another thumbs down lol waste your time with someone else
IGotAllOfThat 2 years ago
Riiiight...so having an intelligent conversation is "a waste of time", but wandering the Net giving people a "thumbs down" is a rewarding way to fill your day? *lol*
You're pathetic. AND you know nothing about boxing. And guess what? I'm not wasting any more of MY time talking to a stupid pissant like you. Happy "thumbing", moron.
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blah blah blippity blah blah.
IGotAllOfThat 2 years ago
The greatest!!!!!!
tatoforever 2 years ago
LOL
purpleherb14 2 years ago
whuhuahuahua :D
ALI!!!
zoechadderpjr 2 years ago
Love it!
hitandmove 2 years ago
haha i laughed when he said tht being the toughest its great how he was so modest and funny.
Ap0caIyps3 2 years ago
he da world greatest
DreezyDrea100 2 years ago
Great vid...gotta love Ali =]
bloodz1311 2 years ago 2
LOL. Ali is classic!!!!
sabellnocdrain 2 years ago 10
his wife at the time
hobomut 2 years ago
lol
TheMaskTV 2 years ago
My mum
TheMaskTV 2 years ago
Ali is hilarious here. I laughed pretty hard. But seriously lots of people thought Liston dumped here but he did not. In certain positions and hitting someone in certain areas it doesnt take as much to knock someone out. Today you would have seen 3 camera angles and the one behind Ali would have shown that he hit Liston right in the temple. Although Ali wasnt known as a knockoput artist but he had plenty of power plus he had a great jaw. Tons of heart. As a kid we all idolized him.
timmyd61109 2 years ago 5
ALi is theee badest mother....
VERS626 2 years ago
Great vid Russian
DJRU2 2 years ago
ali is 2 much! ya Allah give this man a long life isa.ameen.
moey78612 3 years ago 44
@moey78612 hehe he also gave him parkinson lololol
johnny4463435 1 year ago
@johnny4463435 u think u gonna live forever then mate? dumb cunt lol
moey78612 1 year ago
To ajdog15: Boxing isn't just about 'who punches harder.' If it was, you'd never have heard of Sugar Ray, Ali, Pernell Whitaker, and hundreds of other greats... Boxing is a science, you buffoon; and is not usually determined by power. Tyson punches harder than most anyone, but is certainly not considered alongside the list of greats mentioned above. He was a bully, and a front-runner who folded each and every time he faced someone who wasn't afraid of him.
wrwhitworth 3 years ago 3
Where was sonny punching??? ali's shoulder?
kinglouie89 3 years ago
nah kinglouie89 , if you look hard you can see liston was jabbin for the chin but ali weaved back quick so it looks like listons punch was low. Also this happened so much faster really, this clip is slowed down.
sticktha1time 3 years ago 5
the greatest of all time MUHAMMAD ALI.
smsmderdoc 3 years ago 7
Ali greatest boxer :)
lahd1ne 3 years ago 7
Mentioning Kimbo in a conversation about any old school legendary fighter (including mike tyson) is a disgrace. Kimbo should not be mentioned when you speak about Legends such as Ali, frazier, foreman, liston, tyson, louis, marciano, norton, shavers, sugar ray leonard, sugar ray robinson, holyfield, lewis and many more. Kimbo ain't that great...got dropped in 14secs by a guy who was 60pounds lighter and who proved to be the better fighter.
gentorz 3 years ago
ali da the greatest boxer of all tyms lol
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BillyTheKidShah 3 years ago 3
damn not even kimbo could beat him
johnjohnz12 3 years ago 6
he is the greatest....nuf said
vvilliam3 3 years ago 5
love Ali- he knew he was the best.
herrorarra 3 years ago 4
lol the greatest!!
HeavyweightFighter 3 years ago 4
4 100s on a second got damn fast
UnderstandingAll 4 years ago 6
vrrrrrrrrrrtttt
GTate888 4 years ago 5
Looking at the film of the punch, there's no doubt Ali clocked him with a solid punch while Liston was unbalanced. Considering the speed of the punch, I doubt Liston had time to deliberately take a dive here. Whether or not Liston stayed down on purpose to avoid further beatings is a different argument, but this looks like a legitimate knockdown. I think Sonny just realized he wasn't going to do any better this fight than in the last one, and decided to stay down.
DediJ8k 4 years ago 4
NAW! --Liston stayed down because he was seein bats playin saxophones after he got his dome popped!!!!
crunk62 4 years ago 5
I agree liston definitely got hit did look at the way his skin folds up all of a sudden and his hands are nowhere near his body and he has not even able to lay a finger on the canvas yet.
BTAKVE 4 years ago
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I think the fight was fixed. there is no denying how fast that punch was, but it couldn't have been hard enough to put someone as physically tough as sonny liston down for that long. plus sonny's fall was ridiculus
itsgud2bdking 4 years ago
There is nothing ridiculous about Liston's fall. You take that fast and hard of a blow to your temple and see what happens. You will become dizzy, you will stumble and you will fall. Physically tough has nothing to do with it. There is no muscle that can magically guard your temple and he simply couldn't get regain his balance. Liston may have decided to give up but he hated Ali way too much to have been paid off.
jdlund 4 years ago 5
those are valid points but sonny felt that either the mafia, his old "freinds" or the black muslims ali's new friends would be very unhappy about a liston victory. ithink sonny decided to stow his hate so he could make some money and keep himself alive
itsgud2bdking 4 years ago
Yeah see that sounds like the stuff from really bad made for TV movies. Why would the Nation of Islam threaten Liston? Ali beat him fair and square once before, and Ali had never lost a fight at that point. Liston wasn't much of a threat no matter how tough he was or had been at one point during his career. The point is Liston received a hard fast blow to the temple. There is no need to make up weird tales about the mafia or the NOI to explain the knockout. He lost, end of story.
jdlund 4 years ago
itsgud2bdking you are full of shit, the faster the punch the more power it generates and at that speed it is no different from one of Tyson's hardest punches. Liston or not you are going down if you are hit cleanly with that and he hit him in the temple one of the worst places to be his of course he was going to stay down.
BTAKVE 4 years ago
fast punching does not generate more power. Do you honestly think suga ray leonard was a knockout puncher? Ali admitted to tyson punching harder then him but that "phantom" puch would not knock sunny down because he got hit with a more solid shot a earlier in the round and it didn`t phase him
Ali is not a knockout puncher and never was. He told him to stand back up because he knew he took a dive.
ajdog15 3 years ago
Looks normal speed in slo-mo. That's how you know speed. It's obvious why bruce lee studied him.
kazama2133 4 years ago 3
"At the moment I hit Sunny, everyone blinked" Hahaha.
Donnshin 4 years ago 2
Hahaha..."oh, it's fixed....oh, that punch wouldn't do it". Yeah. I don't see anybody here volunteering to let Ali, as crippled as he is today, stick that right hand into their face the way Ali did to Liston there. The dude got stuck. Sorry about your luck, Sonny. This was two asswhippings. At least he wasn't stupid enough to try for three.
srp76 4 years ago
I'm not sure if I see it or not.
Is it the punch he throws with his right hand after taking that jab to the chest?
MarkTheVisionary 4 years ago
GENIUS..there will never be another.
uncjim 4 years ago
What charisma, no fighter today or ever again will have such great character, intelligence and be such a showman.
FutureStyles 4 years ago 2
Still The Greatest. And does anyone remember they fought 15 rounds during his day???
jeffbob4343 4 years ago 2
Foreign substances? You mean imported? From France, maybe?
gianca60 4 years ago
fucken retard....doesnt anyone know that this fight was fixed?u think a lil bitch punch from ali could knockout a guy like sonny liston? the mafia paid him money to throw that fight...ehh stupid medagons
SouthPhillyBoxer726 5 years ago
im also sure they paid Sonny Liston to put foreign substances on his gloves to blind Ali during the fight. ..Ali wins the fight hands down. Sonny Liston is a cheater.
seanchan 4 years ago
nice to see someone actually has some brains...did you know the fight was fixed between the east coast mafia, (liston) and the muslims (Ali) i think Ali was about 7 to 1 against, a tempting target for any fix. Even Ali is taking the piss in this video, saying it with a pinch of salt
joeysmokey 4 years ago
Absolutely adore this man.
kimmy1984 5 years ago 2
True that. Ali only threw TWO punches in that whole two minute fight and knocked Liston out - if you know top-level boxing that is simply not possible. But that was Ali.
sanjuz 5 years ago
Yeah, that...When people said he had no power!
OMFG, people are stupid, speed is power...MxV people...
Mass=Hard Punches...Velocity=Fast Punches. They total to equal fast and hard equals power...Ali was fastest, greatest boxer...amen.
bungholebunghole 5 years ago
I love Muhammad Ali...
bungholebunghole 5 years ago
The greatest entertainer who was born to be champ; with hands or mouth.
okee7 5 years ago