WTF!? Check out this Wikipedia article about Liston

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  1. jaffay

    jaffay New Orleans Hornets Full Member

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    [ame]http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Liston[/ame]

    It's in italian and I don't understand a **** :D

    Just look at the length of this. It's much bigger than english article!

    From what I could notice, this italian version has some rare infos about Sonny...anyone care to translate please? :D

    "If he would stop hollering, he wouldn't have a hernia" - I think that we could find there many more gems like that
     
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  2. Garrus

    Garrus Big Boss 1935-2014 Full Member

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    where you at Pete, we need an Italian in here to translate.
     
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  3. Briscoe

    Briscoe Active Member Full Member

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    Can't you just use google translate?
     
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  4. ChrisPontius

    ChrisPontius March 8th, 1971 Full Member

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    It was probably the Italian Mob.
     
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  5. combatesdeboxeo

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  6. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Just press "translate" at the top of the page.
     
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  7. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    "Witnesses reported that the policeman pleaded not to kill him in the mud Liston."

    "From secondary sources that was even hard to find sparring partners for his workouts. For $ 50 young boxers did not want to be manhandled from the sample."


    Okay, the translator may not be perfect haha, but it does the job. It's just a pretty good bio, nothing outstanding. Some very interesting speculation about Sonny possibly having taken on the identity of one of his brothers.
     
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  8. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    The translator is brilliant. This one had me in stitches.

    'The sample that nobody wanted'

    Sounds like a sad film about a sperm donation bank.
     
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  9. combatesdeboxeo

    combatesdeboxeo Guest

    the translation is much better and more accurate italian-spanish than italian-english
     
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  10. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Awesome isn't it? Although some of it appears more cutting and true for it's weird autonomy:

    " The rise at the very least exaggerated former convict could look like the revenge of the slums on the American dream, the triumph of dishonesty on the virtue, the reversal of the logic of civilization."

    Nice, eh?
     
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  11. jaffay

    jaffay New Orleans Hornets Full Member

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    This translator works out better that I thought. I'm starting to read what came out :)
     
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  12. Kalasinn

    Kalasinn ♧ OG Kally ♤ Full Member

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    :lol:
     
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  13. jaffay

    jaffay New Orleans Hornets Full Member

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    I'm collecting materials about Liston from 2 years for my work about Sonny, I've read dozens of articles, FBI files, biographies, watched documents, all availble fights and after 2 years I found almost everything in one place. Irony.
     
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  14. manbearpig

    manbearpig A Scottish Noob Full Member

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    Just press "English" at the left side of the page. Spastics.
     
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  15. Il Duce

    Il Duce Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I used to work at The Pines, South Fallsburg, New York.
    A resort up in the Catskills.
    Where Sonny trained for the Liston-Patterson fights.
    Primarily the Chicago fight.
    The stories here were beautiful about Sonny and his little
    'mob entourage' hanging out at the small-town Rexall drug store/luncheonette.
     
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