Liston's Mysterious Middle Name?

Watch it be "Larry."

 

According to the book "The Devil and Sonny Liston" ... Liston's parents didn't name him. The woman who delivered him did. And she named him Charles L. Liston.

Liston's mom, Helen, said she never knew what the L. stood for. (Seriously)

This wasn't an educated group of people.

So it means "L."

 

Charles Sonny Liston.

 

Dude everything about this guy is a weird story

 

24 siblings. Date of birth (even the year) and date of death unknown. Cause of death is even disputed.

 

Was that the weird unreadable one where they talk about his junk?

 

I think so. The book also claims that Archie Moore threw the fight against Rocky Marciano.

 

Unfortunately I couldn’t tell you. Fathers name was Tobe and no (possibly passed on) middle name listed for Tobe. It appears Liston had an older brother named Leo b. 1923.

@SolomonDeedes might have more info on the initial “L” - even if only to confirm that it has only ever represented the letter “L” itself.

 

Larry, Moe or Curley. Ha Ha.

 

Harry S Truman’s middle name was just the S … it didn’t stand for anything.

Sonny’s middle name should have had two L’s after the Ali rematch.

 

How about Fllloyd Patterson after the Liston rematch or Lllarry Holmes after his second go around with M. Spinks?

 

As Dubblechin said, according to his mother it didn't stand for anything - it was randomly assigned to him by the midwife when he was born.

https://ibb.co/PYfSc5s

 

Thanks Solomon. Re “Sonny”, he apparently got that nick when he first went to prison, is that correct?

 

Lol, yes Old Archie did a great job looking like he hadn't thrown that fight. What an actor!