Anyone remember where you where for this fight?

DirtyHarry

Stole this pic off a post on the open forum.....believe it or not. Any oldtimers like myself remember the bout? As a kid, I recall being in bed and listening to the fight on my transistor radio (always stashed under my pillow). Still have the radio, sans knob.

jaxxr

This fight was the rematch or second Liston-Ali/Clay, bout

I belive I was with my girlfriend in a car listening to it while "making Out'.

Mac53

Finally, some guys who are older than me. I only remember it in retrospect. Now, Ali-Frazier I, that's a different story.

pandrews

"What's my name?!"

i'm not an old-timer, i wasnt around for this fight.. but ive always associated the above quote with this fight?.. i know Ali did the same thing to Paterson and Terrell also..

one of you old timers fill me in, whats the story?

SoFLPhillyFan

The Leland's auction has some great pictures from this fight. One is a shot taken right before this famous pic.

As I recall I was in bed dreaming about Legos or some great new toy. Pretty young at the time.

Ali was the best.

jshermn

I was in the parking lot of this fight in Miami. A friend was an usher in the fight and supposed to sneak us in but couldn't. We ran in the minute the fight ended at got to see everyone leaving.

1420sports

That is the best boxing photo of all time, and one of the greatest pics in the history of any sport.

Griffins

I agree with 1420, but I prefer the frame before when Clay (at that time) was motioning for Liston to get up. One of the iconic photos of the 20th century.
I"m sure I was asleep dreaming about Legos or Lincoln Logs as well.
Slightly off topic, but if you get a chance to see the documentary of the Zaire fight don't miss it.

Cubfan

I too was only about 6 when this fight occurred so I only remember hearing about it.

Recently, on ESPN, they have been showing many classic Ali/Clay fights on some sort of classic boxing show.

Its just amazing to watch the pre-70 Ali dance, jab, avoid punches and pretty much look like a man against boys in all of his fights. They have the actual announcing of the fights with the show (not someone in the studio narrating it), and its interesting, in the early ones, to hear the announcers continually note how unusual and unorthodox Ali's style was. Evidently, most boxers were just plodders before that.

The interesting ones have been the pre-Liston and other non-title fights that I dont remember seeing before. Ali was just an artist.

If you see that those might be on (especially the non-title fights), its worth an hour or so to watch them.

Axtell

That (to me, and I am sure many others) is by far the greatest sports image EVER caught on film.

Mac53

<< <i>"What's my name?!" >>



I don't think that was any part of this fight. In the Terrell fight, Ali refused to knock his opponent out so that he could brutalize him while taunting him with that quote. I've always thought that Ali's reaction in the picture above came from the fact that Liston went down so easily, and Ali thought that someone had paid Liston to dive.

DirtyHarry

PA - the "What's my name" taunt was due to the fact that opponents would not recongize his muslim name. This came into play more with Patterson and Terrell....who he tortured..extended the pain... because of it.

The first Liston fight was the one where Sonny could not answer the bell because of a supposed shoulder injury. The second fight (this pic) is when he went down from the "phantom punch". Ali was shouting "get up."