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	Sonny Liston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Liston gave his year of birth as 1932, However, many believe that he was born in 1927, though there is no son named Charles listed with the family in the 1930 census.
		Liston was born the son of a sharecropper in Arkansas.
		Liston was very disappointed though that on his comeback to hometown Philadelphia, the fans did not come to cheer him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sonny_Liston (1770 words)

	Ali versus Liston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Liston was the world Heavyweight champion, having dethroned Floyd Patterson by a knockout in the first round in 1962 to win the title; with an impressive knockout win record, Liston was a fighter that not many other fighters of his division at that era were willing to fight.
		Secondly, Liston claimed not to have been hit at all, and Kram knew or should have known this to be false; whatever else may be said about the event, Ali did land a punch to Liston's head.
		In view of the uncertainty regarding the extent of Liston's claimed shoulder injury in Miami, it seems a reasonable possible interpretation that Liston was simply salving his ego, by fabricating a story to fit rumors of the punch that he had already heard.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ali_versus_Liston (1321 words)

	BraggingRightsCorner.com - "Sonny Liston: He Died the Day He Was Born "... by Blaine Hislop
		Whatever the case may be, the evidence that Sonny Liston was linked with the mob was more or less indisputable by the dawn of the 1960s, and it would profoundly affect the rest of Liston's life and career.
		Liston's fall now began in earnest; in truth, his life had always been a race against the darkness into which he had been flung as a small child, and now that darkness had found him and had embraced him inescapably.
		Sonny Liston, the abused child, the fearsome heavyweight, the unhappy "young old man", was a child of the night who found solace only in the eternal night of the grave.
	www.braggingrightscorner.com /hislopliston110804.html (2050 words)

	ESPN Classic - Liston was trouble in and out of ring
		A brute inside the ring, Sonny Liston also was a brute outside it, condemned to a life of trouble.
		Liston believed his birth date was May 8, 1932, but he was never sure and that led to speculation he was actually a few years older.
		Liston was a marked man in St. Louis, where police were known to stop him on sight, sometimes without cause.
	espn.go.com /classic/biography/s/Liston_Sonny.html (1290 words)

	Mike Tyson at Sonny Liston's Grave by Dave Coelho (May 15, 2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sonny Liston was the heavyweight champion of the world, $20 is a small price to pay to show a little respect to the champ.
		Liston died almost thirty years ago, but he wanted me to track down as many people as I could who were in town who knew Sonny Liston.
		Liston was found dead six years later in his Las Vegas home from what the Coroner called "natural causes." Nobody knew exactly when Sonny Liston was born, nobody knew exactly when he died.
	www.boxingranks.com /Articles/Article16.htm (2920 words)

	African American Registry: Sonny Liston, the "Left Hook"
		Liston turned professional, went 14 and 1 but assaulted a police officer and returned to prison in 1956.
		Liston had a remarkable physical presence as a boxer; a crushing left hook and a great ability to take punches.
		Sonny Liston died of natural causes in 1970, six months after his last fight.
	aaregistry.com /african_american_history/907/Sonny_Liston_the_Left_Hook (246 words)

	Charles 'Sonny' Liston quiz -- free game
		Sonny had a professional record of 15 and 1 with 7 knockouts when he was convicted and imprisoned of another felony in January 1957.
		Later it was found that Sonny had tried to blind Clay in the fourth round by having his cornermen apply Muscatele to his boxing gloves and then smearing it in Clay's eyes.
		Sonny would have one more fight in his career in June of 1970, for which he would be paid only $13,000.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=79216 (714 words)

	IBHOF / Sonny Liston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Born one of 25 brothers and sisters, Liston led a troubled life and learned boxing while serving time in prison for armed robbery.
		He granted Patterson a rematch 10 months later but the result was the same: Liston by knockout in the first round.
		Liston's reputation as an invincible champion was shattered when he quit on his stool between the seventh and eigthth rounds against challenger Cassius Clay 1964.
	www.ibhof.com /liston.htm (255 words)

	Sonny Liston: The Tools of Terror
		Liston was bigger and stronger than Patterson, and with the fight finally set on September 25, 1962, Liston made quick work of Patterson with a crushing first round knockout.
		Sonny Liston was a tough guy who could take a shot, and as clean as that punch was and as quick as it happened, it couldn’t have dropped Sonny like that in the first minute of the fight.
		Liston’s wife Geraldine said “Sonny threw the fight because he was afraid of the fl Muslims who were moving up into power at the time.” But I think Liston cashed in on that fight.
	www.doghouseboxing.com /DHB/PINO110605.htm (1763 words)

	Sonny's Demons
		But in deconstructing Sonny Liston, Tosches attempts to understand how this taciturn bully with fists from hell got to be the person he was--and why he never had much of a chance to escape the servitude into which he was born.
		As Tosches writes: ''A guy who knew Sonny once said, 'I think he died the day he was born.''' When and where that was remains unclear, but sometime around 1930, Sonny became one more mouth in a brood of 10 born to Helen and Tobe Liston, a tenant farmer with a mean streak.
		By 1950, Liston was living in St. Louis, where he learned ''it was easier to rob folks than it was to chop cotton.'' Liston was soon arrested wearing the same ''flamboyant yellow lumberjack-type shirt'' that he had on during every holdup.
	netscape.businessweek.com /2000/00_21/b3682123.htm (496 words)

	Press Release: The Devil and Sonny Liston by Nick Tosches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A stunning illumination of Sonny Liston's life, death, and all the knockouts in between, this biography digs into the darkest corners of Liston's career and reveals for the first time the brutal truth behind his reign as heavyweight champion.
		Liston's rise to the world heavyweight championship may have been a phenomenal boxing story, but to many Americans in the early 1960s, he was their worst dream come to life--a thug, an illiterate, a criminal who was not, in the saying of the time, a credit to his race.
		Sonny Liston hit harder than any man alive, and as exposed in THE DEVIL AND SONNY LISTON, hitting hard was the only recourse for this man who essentially lived his entire life as a slave.
	www.twbookmark.com /books/73/0316897752/press_release.html (472 words)

	The Case for Sonny Liston - A Discussion Piece by Charles Farrell (March 29, 2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sonny Liston may be the least accurately perceived heavyweight champion in boxing history.
		Liston uses beautiful head movement and what may be the division’s greatest ever jab to avoid most of Williams’ punches and to keep him off balance.
		Sonny Liston was an adult and a businessman.
	www.boxingranks.com /Articles/Article646.htm (1548 words)

	Charles 'Sonny' Liston
		Liston, an ex-convict with a cold stare that made him the bane of weigh-ins, was scary in the ring and unreadable in private life.
		Liston was born in rural Arkansas into an enormous family of 24 brothers and sisters.
		Liston was knocked out, by Leotis Martin in his second-to-last fight, a bid for the vacant NABF heavyweight title.
	www.championboxingclub.com /box_sonny_liston.htm (1138 words)

	Sonny Liston: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Liston was very disappointed though that on his comeback to hometown Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania quick summary:
		Liston lost by a knockout in the first round.
		Liston made a cameo appearance[Click link for more facts about this topic] as a boxer in the 1968 film[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] Head Head (movie) quick summary:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/sonny_liston.htm (2737 words)

	Cassius Clay Rips World Boxing Title From Sonny Liston
		Liston's team withdrew their man before the beginning of the seventh round as a result of a shoulder injury which, they say, prevented him from continuing.
		Liston's supporters can take little encouragement, however, from the fact that their man withdrew and wasn't knocked out.
		Cassius Clay danced a jig of triumph as it became clear that Liston wouldn't be emerging for the latter rounds and immediately turned his attention to the group of both American and foreign boxing writers gathered ringside.
	www.dailypast.com /sport/cassiusclay.shtml (618 words)

	Sonny Liston FBI Files
		Charles "Sonny" Liston was born in 1932, into a family where he became one of twenty-five children.
		Sonny Liston was widely reputed to have strong mob affiliations.
		Sonny Liston is described as being owned by "Hodlums" including Joseph Barone, Frankie Carbo, Blinky Palermo, and John Vitale.
	www.paperlessarchives.com /sonny_liston.html (465 words)

	The Books: The Devil and Sonny Liston by Nick Tosches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sonny Liston was the anti-Ali, a boxer whose strength needed no gloss.
		His rise to the world heavyweight championship was a march of unambiguous victories that left opponent after opponent crushed, but to many Americans in the early 1960s, he was their worst dream come to life--a thug, an illiterate, a criminal who was not, in the saying of the time, a credit to his race.
		The truth of Liston's infamous losses to Cassius Clay in 1964 and to the newly christened Muhammad Ali in 1965 is revealed here in the inescapable words of Liston himself and those who knew him best.
	www.twbookmark.com /books/73/0316897752 (319 words)

	The Devil and Sonny Liston
		In 1962, the year that Sonny won the heavyweight title, I was in the eighth grade of P.S. 24 in Jersey City.
		Sonny Liston knew — you could see it in those dead man's eyes — that there was no fl and white; there was only that hallway: your hallway, my hallway, Jones's hallway, the unlighted hallway of the world.
		I think now that my boyhood fascination with Sonny Liston had to do with his being as feared and hated by fls as by whites.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/t/tosches-liston.html (877 words)

	Literal Mind. The Devil and Sonny Liston, Nick Tosches
		What is known is that Liston was the ninth of 10 children born to Tobe and Helen Liston, and that Tobe, a hard-bitten tenant farmer in rural Arkansas, was no Ward Cleaver.
		Whether it was a tyrannical father, a plantation boss, or some club-wielding cop, Liston knew in his blood, knew in a way that we who weave our civilizing threads can cheerfully deny, that there was always someone ready to pounce, to exact their pound of flesh.
		During Liston's steady ascent through the heavyweight ranks, which Tosches ably charts through to his capture of the heavyweight crown and beyond, it was the criminal underworld, which had a lock on all facets of the fight game.
	www.newsjobs.net /literalmind/content/review4.asp?book=57 (826 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Sonny Liston
		Charles "Sonny" Liston (May 8, 1932 – December 30, 1970), was a boxer who became world Heavyweight champion, and whose life and personality were always obscure.
		During training for the fight, Liston was taunted mercilessly by Clay, who alleged to his corner that Liston blinded him in the third round using an unknown substance smeared on his gloves.
		Instead, Sonny might have simply lost his heart for fight having his face beaten to a pulp with Clay's jabs.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Sonny_Liston (1400 words)

	Charles “Sonny” Liston. (You Should Know More About Him.) • NorthSideFan's Blog - FOX Sports Blogs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Liston is one of the most mysterious and misunderstood athletes of the last 100 years.
		Sonny Liston was not yet the Champion at that time.
		Sonny apparently was notorious for a brawl with several Philly cops in Fairmount Park several years before that.
	blogs.foxsports.com /NorthSideFan/10734 (1444 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sonny Liston (Sports, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Sonny Liston (Charles Liston), 1932–71, American boxer, b.
		Little Rock, Ark. While serving a sentence for robbery at the Missouri State Penitentiary, Liston became interested in boxing.
		Losing his return match with Ali in 1965, Liston began a comeback in 1966.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/Liston-S.html (201 words)

	Amazon.com: Liston, Sonny: Mysterious Life & Death / Sports (1997) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sonny Liston, who was Heavyweight Champion from 1962 through 1964 was someone who was well known to me. Being a Muhammad Ali fan, I knew him as the man who Ali (then Cassius Clay) dethroned for the Heavyweight title.
		There was also a wealth of stories that were told about Sonny Liston- namely his alleged connections to organized crime, his alleged participation in both of his fights with Ali, and of course his mysterious death.
		While I had heard many of the stories about Sonny Liston's "connections", I never realized that this was a figure who was really considered the "bad boy" of Boxing during this period.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6303982980?v=glance (2046 words)

	Powell's Books - The Devil and Sonny Liston by Nick Tosches
		Liston was a more complex man than his image allowed, a man America's appetites were not ready for, and whose antics were not viewed through the fisheye lens with which we view Tyson.
		A stunning portrait of the most potent symbol of menace in 20th century America--the boxer Sonny Liston--by a preeminent biographer and cultural historian.
		This stunning portrait of the most potent symbol of menace in 20th-century America portrays boxer Sonny Liston as "an unfortunate victim of people much worse than he (who)emerges with a kind of mute dignity" ("Publishers Weekly").
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=63-0316897752-24 (359 words)

	Amazon.com: The Devil and Sonny Liston: Books: Nick Tosches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Events around the beleaguered and bewildered Liston whirl at dizzying speeds--the Kefauver investigation of boxing, the war in Vietnam, the rise of the Nation of Islam, the cultural roar of the 1960s generation--and Tosches is a master at keeping his finger on the pulse of the period and his eye on the pitiable Sonny.
		Liston's capacity for violence in this book is not found in the drama of the ring, squaring off against a trained, powerful, competent opponent.
		Liston was larger than life in every way, he was the original bad-ass of boxing.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0316897469?v=glance (2368 words)

	Sonny Liston's grave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A young Cassius Clay was then seen as easy meat for Liston but in one of boxings most remarkable results, Liston retired on his stool.
		In the return match the then Mohamed Ali (formerly Cassius Clay) knocked Liston out in the 1st round with what was described as the phantom punch, a punch that did not appear to touch Liston.
		To this day rumors persist that Sonny Liston was owned by the Mafia and that both fights were fixed by them.
	www.hollywoodusa.co.uk /GravesOutofLA/sonnyliston.htm (121 words)

	Sonny Liston - biography and career (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Liston made his professional debut on September 2, 1953, knocking out Don Smith in the first round in St. Louis, where he campaigned for the first five fights of his career.
		In his sixth bout, in Detroit, Michigan, he faced John Summerlin, who was 22-1, on national television.
		The list of all authors is available under this link.
	www.fameboxing.com /sonny-liston.htm (1322 words)

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