Sonny Liston Trivia

It's said that in sparring he'd burst the stitching of his opponents headgear, people have said he'd send the speed bag flying across the room. (I'm just getting this from documentaries)

 

IT is said that he was really born in 1927

 

I think he was actually born in 1917.

 

Consensus is that he was so old for the Clay fight, that he had actually risen from the dead. The first world war had a heavy toll on his body... but the damn maffia dragged him out of his retirement home, made him get rid of his walking cane (which is shown on several non-ring pictures) and made him fight Clay.... poor *******. All of this will be confirmed by contemporary media reports going into that fight.

 

I read somewhere that he got the name "Sonny" off his father who could't remember the kids names and called them all "Sonny"

 

"Cos I ain't got no dogproof ass" ! Quote from Liston when asked why he never went on Civil Rights marches.

 

So you think he was around 50 when Ali fought him????????

 

sonny skipping to night train by jimmy forrest or james brown is beautiful

 

No, sixty!

 

I think he was around 80 years old when he fought Clay and almost 90 when he died of old age. His cause of death was listed as being due to "natural causes" after all.

 

I would go as far as to say he was 90 when he fought Clay, but that's the limit, no more, ok?

 

You people think Liston was eighty or ninety years old when he fought Clay? That's ****ing ridiculous.