Liston **** Allegatiation?

This is news to me, I read he raped someone's wife once.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if Liston had raped, injured or violated multiple women to be quite honest. He was also involved with the mafia from the time that he was a teenager, and apparently did a lot of collections work for them, which basically means, he broke the legs of people who owed the bosses cash. Frankly, it would not surprise me in the least if Liston even iced a man or two in his day. It comes with the territory when you mix with the mob, and Sonny was no humanitarian by any stretch of the imagination.

 

It was strange, in the book "The Devil and Sonny Liston", I remember skimming through it at the bookstore and they mentioned cases. Then I bought it a few weeks later and read it, and that whole part was taken out.

I'm not all that sure about the reliabilty of that book anyway. It claims that Archie Moore took a dive against Rocky Marciano. Anyone who saw that fight should be highly skeptical about that.

The book also gives like a long description about Liston's anatomy and size.

Not something I really cared to read in a boxing biography.

 

Truthfully, I stopped reading boxing biographies a long time ago. I find that no matter how well or how poorly written they are, they are still just one person's view of a man's life, and only giving the portion of the story that it takes to sell the book. Biographies are not to be trusted nor taken as gospel most of the time.

 

Covered up by the media? I find that hard to believe. If anything, the media thrive on celebrities breaking laws. Liston was a known badass and ex-con...

 

Apparently Night Train is the title of the book in the U.K.

Night Train is indeed a good song to jump rope to IMO.

 

Difficult to say for sure. The man left home at an early age, and did what he needed to do to survive. Violence was second nature to him, and in those days, people got away with a lot of crap that went uninvestigated, unsolved or unrecorded, unlike today. He was a guy who spent time in prison later in his life, among other places.

Weather Liston's violence was limited to the ring, or weather he has gross skeletons in his very dark and deep closet, one thing is for sure. He was no wonderful human being. I suspect that much of his person life is still unknown, and likely will always be.