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Il Duce wrote:Gene Tunney

"I'm telling you. I would bet everything I had on Jack going more than 2-Minutes
with Cassius Clay in Lewiston. I saw Clay up at his Training Camp {Chicopee, Mass.}
and he's fast, but I was not impressed with his power. He was sparring with a
bunch of 'stiff-legged' guys who couldn't move, and he couldn't drop any of them."

'Jack could get up off his Lounge Chair, and take Clay 3-Minutes without breathing
hard, and he's damn 70 Years-old."

"On Sonny Liston, it is possible that the long walk from the 'dressing room' to the
'Ring' took a lot out of him. That will do it to any 50 year-old broken down old
war-horse."

Il Duce wrote:Jack Dempsey

"I just don't know. I never saw a punch, or a punch with any force land. Everybody
thought Sonny tripped over his big boat-feet. And if he did go down from a soft-punch
like that, he would have gotten up immediately, not flopped around like a Fish that
they just pulled up on a boat."

"If this was real, then Cassius should be able to 'Knockout' his next opponent {Floyd Patterson}
even quicker, maybe 30-Seconds."

yancey wrote:

Il Duce wrote:Jack Dempsey

"I just don't know. I never saw a punch, or a punch with any force land. Everybody
thought Sonny tripped over his big boat-feet. And if he did go down from a soft-punch
like that, he would have gotten up immediately, not flopped around like a Fish that
they just pulled up on a boat."

"If this was real, then Cassius should be able to 'Knockout' his next opponent {Floyd Patterson}
even quicker, maybe 30-Seconds."

When I see photos like this I'm always interested in the facial expressions of the people at ringside.

I wonder who the old guy with the shades in the lower right happens to be. Sonny's financial planner, perhaps?