moreover what the hell good would have an education done him if he grew up middle class...he never would have ended up in a boxing gym...would have went to college with the "opportunities" and ended up going into low submissive profession like law enforcement for a measly 40 grand a year. you're telling me thats better than being heavyweight champion of the world. being 1 of 13 children of a dirt poor sharecropper did him a lot of good, put that fight in him and ambition which he probably wouldn't have had if he grew up in a middle class life...that piece of history between him and Ali would have never existed.
"victim of circumstance"...its a hard argument to make that liston would have ended up better than heavyweight champion of the world had he come up from any other circumstance.
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