The place I heard those accusations from is here. Someone claimed “Dempsey was paid to break in virgins at the brothel” and someone else said “well Tyson did that too, for free” I’ve heard about him bouncing at the brothel, but I have not heard those accusations elsewhere. I figured (and also hope) it’s probably just made up. Jim Brown had a similar incident. He was suspected of tossing his girlfriend off a balcony. Both he and her claim she fell. It might be true, but his history is not exactly one that inspires confidence in giving him the benefit of the doubt.
The "mutual fall" was a fairy tale concocted by Monzon's defense. The investigation determined Mozon strangled his wife and throwed her from the balcon, jumping afterwards in order to build his alibi.
I heard the accusations on another old forum post, but I wouldn't bet on them being correct. Spent a good half an hour the other day looking around for any evidence and the only thing that I could find relating to that was another forum post with a similar, uncredited claim, and the parody Wikipedia page that likely started this. I'm assuming that someone read a bit of the page, took it as serious, and then ran with it, pretty much just as I did. Always gotta factcheck stuff in this day and age.
That video is amazing. The way Berbick is in a screaming stupor & then you hear a scream, the camera swivels, & Holmes appears out of the darkness like the Cloverfield monster. Glorious.
He's going on about, "Larry Holmes kicked me, punched me in front of everybody-", and Holmes shows him that he'd do it again, no hesitation, lol.
During the late 1960's, Sonny was at least lauded for his kindness and love towards children. Over the last four decades though, Liston would be excoriated savagely and suspected as a pedophile for that.
Sometimes I get looked at weird cause I'll talk to kids like they're human beings, and I'm sure that Liston would've had it much worse. People are just less outwardly genuine nowadays.
The amount of cognitive dissonance required for sports star worship on such a level that Sonny Liston of all people is viewed as a good person is staggering.
Out of everything that Liston was involved with, what makes you believe that he wasn't a good person?