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Liston, Sonny (1932?-1970) Summary
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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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Liston, Sonny
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(born May 8, 1917?, St. Francis county, Ark., U.S.—died Dec. 31?, 1970, Las Vegas, Nev.) American boxer who was world heavyweight boxing champion from Sept. 25, 1962, when he knocked out Floyd Patterson in the first round in Chicago, until Feb....
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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: 424 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...
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Jet
HBO airs TV documentary movie on life of former champion Sonny Liston. (heavyweight champion)
06/12/1995: 403 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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AP News
Today in history - Feb. 25
2/25/2007: 550 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Sunday, Feb. 25, the 56th day of 2007. There are 309 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Feb. 25, 1913, the 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution, giving Congress the power to levy and collect income taxes, was declared in...
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Vibe.com
Jaheim - Still Ghetto (Warner Bros.)
6/23/2003: 530 words, approx. 2 pages
As intense as a Sonny Liston sucker punch, Jaheim’s magnificent baritone blasts out of your speakers and knocks you to the ground. Though his sound is aggressive and masculine, there’s a disarming tenderness at its core. R&B may be churning out ruffneck Romeos by the...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Sonny Liston
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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.


 

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