Why did Sonny Liston die?

Give me his autopsy report then.

 

Liston in life was an enigma born out of many myths, his death was no different. I doubt he was killed, if he was on drugs then he got what was coming to him.

I think he was the kind of guy that would have obeyed mafia orders, this is a guy that took a couple of dives.

If he had been killed then someone by now would have talked about it.

 

what is "because he did not want to live anymore" ...thank you alex i'll have football greats for 800...ooo daily double

 

This is certainly the most compeling source of evidence available now, and the obvious starting point.

It should be noted that coronary artery disease would be unusual in a man of his age.

Is there anything you can think of that might have contributed to it?

 

Probably Mafia-influenced death.

 

"A healthy strong guy like him most likely doesn't die that young of 'natural causes'.

They do all the time. Pete Maravich was 40 and in good condition. I was watching on TV when Chuck Hughes, 28, collapsed and died in an NFL game in 1971. J V Cain of the St Louis Cardinals collapsed and died, also at 28, in 1979. Antonio Puerto and Chaswe Nsofwa, world football players, both collapsed and died in 2007. All these young men died of heart attacks. About 20 high school athletes die each year. Athlete's are actually vulnerable because of the pressure put on the heart leading to "athlete's heart"--an enlarged heart while the diseased arteries remain narrow.

Bottom line--It is certainly unusual for a man of Liston's age to die of a heart attack, but not "shockingly unusual". It happens all the time.

 

Coronary artery disease seems to be genetic. Some just have a predisposition to it.

Bad habits such as drinking and smoking and drug abuse can't help. I have never heard of Liston smoking, but he did seem to be a binge drinker and apparently, off the autopsy, was into heroin. Whether he generally abused his body by irregular eating or sleeping habits, or a poor diet, I have no idea.

 

Just because it's unusual doesn't mean it can't be the cause. My old man was very fit and in shape, but died young because of the same heart-related cause.

 

You're aware that when he came back to his own town with the heavyweight championship of the world no one arrived to greet him?

He was not a popular man in his time as a fighter, especially when he was HW champion. Looking at how he's thought of today has no bearing on how he was perceived while he was still alive.

 

I'm a BIGTIME Sonny Liston fan. So, I hope that posters don't think that
I'm looking to disparage him.

Sonny had a very hard life from day one. All the crap from his abusive
father, then he ran with a bad crowd & did some serious jail time.

Sonny did drink heavily, that seems certain. Did he use heroin?

Like a poster stated, he could have been smoking and/or snorting it.

His career was basically over after the KO loss to Leotis Martin &
he was probably struggling along.

Plus, Sonny was probably a bit older than his "official" age.

Heavy drinking + a lifetime of serious stress. Quite possible that he
just suffered a heart attack and died.


Grebfan9
www.firstroundboxing.com

 

Why the irrational reasoning?


Not everything happens for a dramatic reason. People die from natural or stupid causes all the time. Get over it.