Sonny Liston's Sisters And Brothers

If only one mother, then she was in the pregnant mode for 20 "consecutive" years.

 

the way I heard it 2 dirt poor familys with an absent parent of 10 plus kids joined together. something simular heppened in joe louis's home also.

kind of like the "brady bunch" without the cheese and wholesome fun..

 

Sorry for bumping the thread but I've always wondered what happened to his mom Helen. I know she was alive in '71. I know Tobe his dad died in '48 I believe but I found absolutely nothing on Helen. His wife Geraldine, died in '05.

 

But yes. He did reconnect with her. He'd always visit her in his final years.

 

Sonny, an adult-child, illiterate for many years, got pulled into low-grade mafia "enforcement", was hated by the police in most cities he lived in, used the only asset he really had: his fists in boxing, and then the nite of his greatest professional accomplishment (Heavyweight title), no one shows up to welcome him back to his home city after the Patterson victory. No wonder he really didn't give a chite from 1964 on.

 

All those siblings and none of his numerous brothers became boxers like he did?

 

I think Sonny was the only one that went to prison. And that’s where he learned to box.

I think only about three of his actual siblings were boys, although there would have been more boys on the step fathers side of the family. A famous musician was somehow related to that end.

 

Was it Michael Jackson?

 

No there was no Michael Jackson link. I think it was john lee hooker or B.B. King.

 

BB King!

 

Other than Luis Ortiz?