Rick doesn't know a lot about autographs, particularly sports.
There was a bad Sonny Liston siganture on a ringside bell.
He also said that Sonny Liston's autograph wasn't worth much because all those boxers signed a lot right up until the day he died.
So Rick thought the bell might be worth a few hundred, with no added value even if the signature was good. wrong.
Of course Liston died fairly young, in Las Vegas no less, and he didn't like to sign and avoided signing much of the time. So to say a blanket statement that boxers signed a lot right up to the day they died was not doing his homework on Liston.
A real signature on that bell would have added value to it. Drew Max rightfully knocked down that signature, calling it fake.
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