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Sonny Liston

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Liston, Sonny (1932?-1970) Summary
595 words, approx. 2 pages
Charles "Sonny" Liston is best remembered as the man who lost the heavyweight title to Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay), in 1964. A fearsome slugger, Liston captured and terrified the American consciousness in the early 1960s. His...
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Sonny Liston Information
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It is uncertain exactly when Liston was born. He was probably born in 1929, but no one knows for sure as there is no son named Charles listed with the family in the 1930 census. Even Sonny's mother, who was called Big Hela, didn't know, though she...


News and Journals
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Publishers Weekly
THE DEVIL AND SONNY LISTON.(Review) (book review)
03/13/2000: 422 words, approx. 1 pages
NICK TOSOHES. Little, Brown, $24.95 (272p) ISBN 0-316-89775-2 * Tosehes has always been drawn to the lives of dark and mysteriously flawed or fallen public figures--Jerry Lee Lewis in Hellfire, Dean Martin in Dino--and in one-time heavyweight champ Charles "Sonny" Liston he has...
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Jet
HBO airs TV documentary movie on life of former champion Sonny Liston. (heavyweight champion)
06/12/1995: 402 words, approx. 1 pages
Liston struggled to become heavyweight champion, defeating Floyd Patterson before being defeated by Muhammad Ali in 1965. He died mysteriously and was a misunderstood man, according to his friends. 'Sonny Liston: the Mysterious lIfe and Death of a Champion' will be shown throughout June...
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greatreporter.com
The Greatest: A MuhammadAli Quiz
10/8/2007: 279 words, approx. 1 pages
Question 1 of 10:What inspired such anger in the 12-year old Cassius Clay that he started to train as a boxer?His mum's mugging The theft of his bike A racist tauntA playground brawlQuestion 2 of 10:Before opting to call himself Muhammad Ali following his conversion...
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Patterson, Floyd
12/31/2006: 344 words, approx. 1 pages
American boxer (b. Jan. 4, 1935, Waco, N.C. —d. May 11, 2006, New Paltz, N.Y. ), was the first to hold the world heavyweight championship twice. He grew up in Brooklyn and learned to box in upstate New York while attending a school for emotionally...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 75%
Sonny Liston
556 words, approx. 2 pages
Sonny Liston was born as a child of a sharecropper in Arkansas. Sonny was only one of seventeen children. When Sonny went to school, he endured frequent beatings as a child. Sonny Liston Started to work early as his fathers opinion, " if he can sit at a table, he can work." When Sonny became a teenager at the age of 13 he escaped from his father in St. Louis to reunite with his mother.


 

Sonny Liston

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