And heres yet another tour. Bob THE SONNY LISTON TOUR This content is protected AROUND 1946 FORREST CITY, ARK. 220 NORTH BEACH STREET Moved here with his mother. 114 UNION STREET They next moved here into this house. 1950's - 1958 ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI Liston was living here before moving to Philadelphia. 1958 - EARLY 1960 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 101 SOUTH 30th STREET THE HAMILTON COURT APTS. When Sonny first moved to Philly, he lived in this seven story, red brick apartment building. This content is protected EARLY 1960 - 1962 5785 DUNLAP STREET Bought his first home, a two - story, red and white brick house in the Overbrook section of West Philly. Liston and his wife, Geraldine, watch as movers load all of their belongings into a moving van for the trip to Chicago, where the heavyweight champ has bought a new house, a 21 - room mansion on Chicago's South SIDE. This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected 1962 - 1963 CHICAGO The champ patiently holds a chair while his wife decides where it should go in their new Chicago mansion. This content is protected This content is protected 1963 - 1966 DENVER, COLORADO The Liston's moved here. NOVEMBER 5, 1963 Cassius Clay and friends show up at one in the morning on Liston front lawn and start yelling and making loud noises. Clay is egging Liston to give him a title fight. This content is protected 1966 - 1970 2058 OTTAWA DRIVE - LAS VEGAS On March 29, 1966, Liston bought the split - level, pastil green home of Kirk Kerkarian for $64,000. The backyard, with a swimming pool, looked out over the 10th fairwell of the Stardust Country Club, in the exclusive area of Paradise. Liston was found dead on his bed on December 30, 1970. DAVIS MEMORIAL PARK - VEGAS This content is protected This content is protected Sonny waves goodbye to his fans. This content is protected Santa Sonny's gonna keep an eye on whose being naughty and nice. This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected
Liston could have taken Clay's 5 big mouth friends all by himself. Those 6 including Ali were lucky liston didnt come out and kill them...you don't **** with sonny liston in a street fight.
Man, that cat was just the freshest dude around.. He was indeed the Boss when it comes to being the daddy... Sonny was the heavyweight champions , champion... I dont know many fighters who dont just love Sonny in one way or another, just a simple hard man who didn't care for any fancy dan bull****.......... If the world would have left Sonny alone he would have never bothered no-body, and probably still been around today...
The Big Cat Williams vs Liston #2 was a huge fight in Houston. Though the Cat lost....the Houstonians always adimired Liston.
If you liked the photo I found of Sonny holding the chair for his wife then check out the pictures I'll be posting under the heading - CORBIS PHOTOS. I found that photo of Sonny on a great photography site called CORBIS. You can find all kinds of wonderful photos of people there. Take a gander. Bob
Yep, I spent a summer in Houston in 06, and everyone all of the adults there knew who Cleveland Williams was. he built himself quite the reputation down there
He's holding that chair so easily that it almost looks asif someone photoshopped it in his hands. Great pictures.
My boyfriend and I just watched the Sonny Liston documentary that HBO did a while ago. We also watched one espn did. I think it's called "Beyond the Glory." My boyfriend is a big boxing buff and I asked him if he knew anything about Sonny's wife, Geraldine. But he doesn't. And said I might find answers here. Does anyone know how Sonny met his wife? How he courted her? I'd be interested to know the romantic side of such a guy.
If Liston came outta his house and grabbed Clay by the neck, all those other assholes would have run for their lives...leaving atrail of **** behind them.
That was the Denver house that the Young Clay visited,,,,,,,,,,, Middle-class neighborhood, nice and quiet.
