Thursday, July 22, 2021

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Boxing writer and historian Bobby Franklin writing about Liston in the Patterson fights: “it is interesting to note that while the fights were blow outs, Liston did not come out swinging wildly. He took Floyd apart methodically, setting his man up with left jabs and solid body shots. Sonny showed fast hands, using an accurate left jab, along with hooks and uppercuts.   He had a definite game plan and executed it perfectly. If they fought a hundred times during that period the result would have been the same." Joe Frazier, when asked if Larry Holmes had the best jab he had ever seen, said : “nope. Ali's was better." Then he paused and said "and Sonny Liston's, of course." George Foreman said: “Sonny Liston taught me how to jab. He taught me how to box, really." George Foreman went on to name Liston AND Ali as the best jabbers, saying: “Liston and Ali [had the best jabs] Nobody made me box like Sonny Liston did and that happened every time we worked together. 

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