Fight fans who know the Sonny Liston story know the former heavyweight champion of the world had, shall we say, a testy relationship with cops. … continue
What makes a fighter, a boxer, scary? Wicked punching power? A genuinely nasty personality and demeanor? Thoroughly intimidating stare-down abilities that frighten not only the … continue
Was it a legitimate knockout punch? Was the fix in? Was it a ‘Phantom Punch?’ Did Muhammad Ali really defeat Sonny Liston in an honest-to-goodness … continue
Up and down, back and forth; the 1960s produced a heavyweight division that was as “counter-culture” as the United States of America itself at the … continue
Today marks the 60th anniversary of the first fight between Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston. At the time, the upset win scored by Ali, then … continue
To me, he stands out as the epitome of a heavyweight boxer. Those two words – heavyweight, boxer – those two concepts, balanced equally in … continue
Rewind to the Christmas holidays of 1963, and it seemed as though the man who sat on the heavyweight throne would never be knocked off … continue
How scary was Sonny Liston – the peak version? It’s a tough question, one on more than one level. Firstly, nobody knows when Liston was … continue
Talk about a rematch that was wholly and totally unnecessary. It was on this day 60 years ago when heavyweight king Sonny Liston again fought … continue
To put it one way, as one fight writer did – ‘the best available information we have is that Charles “Sonny” Liston was born on … continue