Happy Birthday Sonny Liston?
To put it one way, as one fight writer did – ‘the best available information we have is that Charles “Sonny” Liston was born on this day of May 8, in 1930.’
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59 Years Ago Today: When Cassius Clay Upset Sonny Liston And Shocked The World!
Some great fights, no matter how many times you watch them, they still give you something; with only repeated viewings letting a fan fully appreciate a special fight.
December 30, 1970 – When Heavyweight Great Sonny Liston Met His End (probably)
No matter how many years go by, it seems the death of heavyweight king Sonny Liston never becomes a topic that is off limits due to the subject being boring or tiresome.
On This Day In ’63: Liston Repeats His Destruction Job In Needless Return With Patterson
Talk about a pointless return fight, a strong case against rematch clauses. The time in heavyweight history when Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson fought twice could easily be pointed at as a time when so much time was wasted due to the now so common clause.
On This Day: Sonny Liston Has His First Fight Back After Ali Rematch Disaster
Sonny Liston’s career carried on after the disastrous and hugely controversial return fight he had with Muhammad Ali in May of 1965.
On This Day: Ali-Liston II, The “Phantom Punch” And The Debate That Will Never Go Away!
Has there ever been a more controversial first round KO in heavyweight history than the KO – or the supposed KO, the faked KO, the “Phantom Punch” KO – that went down in Lewiston, Maine on this day back in 1965?
Video: What If Sonny Liston Fought in the 1970s?
He is the biggest mystery in the history of the heavyweight division. He may be the most feared fighter in history.
December 1963: When Sonny Liston Dressed Up As Santa Claus, And Most Of America Didn’t Like It
Happy Christmas from Sonny Liston.
Sonny Liston had a most amazing face, and with it, “Old Stoneface” had a natural, even unavoidable ability to omit a chilling stare that, anyone who saw it would not soon forget.
Happy Halloween, Sonny Liston – The Scariest Fighter Of Them All
The closest the great Sonny Liston got to fighting on Halloween Night was on October 24th, 1958, when he won a decision over the extremely tough and durable Bert Whitehurst (in a rematch); Whitehurst being a fighter who was stopped just six times in 64 pro fights.
Sonny Liston At 50: Old But Still Lethal
When was the great Sonny Liston born? 1930? 1931? Or much earlier – maybe as early as 1919. Maybe even before that, in 1917.