The AP released a bunch of unseen photos from Ali-Liston 2 and they are marvelous. It has always been my understand that Liston was under extreme mob pressure to take a dive and that is exactly what he did.
It wasn’t so much a “Phantom Punch” as a punch that normally he would have just taken fairly easily and certainly not one that would hilariously make him roll around on the ground the way he did while being counted it.
Crazy this happened over 50 years ago, doesn’t seem like that LONG ago, but my how times have changed (some things sadly have stayed the same).
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