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>Nick Tosches suggests, and I now tend
>to agree with, Liston threw both fights, esp the second one. Ali didn't
>have the punching power to take out a man of Liston's size and strength
>that fast, not to mention that Liston was felled by a "phantom punch."
>Add Liston's involvement with the boxing underworld, and . . .
I like Tosches on Jerry Lee Lewis and Dean Martin, but I can't get with him on this. I've seen film of the second fight in slow motion and it looks to me like a solid shot. On the commentary, Angelo Dundee says that's how you get someone down, a shot right to the temple. And if you're going to throw a fight, would you do it in the first round?