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Charles L. "Sonny" Liston (unknown-December 30th 1970) was an American professional boxer often viewed as ‘the invincible one’ in the ring. "[57] Those findings were confirmed in a formal investigation immediately after the fight by Florida State Attorney Richard Gerstein, who also noted that there was little doubt that Liston went into the fight with a sore or lame shoulder. "As the fight wore on, Liston became more and more disturbed by his inability to catch up with the ever-moving Marshall and the Detroiter took the play from him through the final three rounds to clinch his triumph. American heavyweight boxer Sonny Liston pictured in sparring pose during training circa 1965. When Walcott got back to Liston and looked at the knockdown timekeeper, Francis McDonough, to pick up the count, Liston had fallen back on the canvas. Charles L. "Sonny" Liston (c. 1930 – c. December 30, 1970) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1953 to 1970. His punches rained on Liston from every angle. Charles "Sonny" Liston was born circa 1930 into a sharecropping family who farmed the poor land of Morledge Plantation near Johnson Township, St. Francis County, Arkansas. Sheed says that the punch and the knockdown "may have been genuine, but when referee Joe Walcott blew the count and gave him all evening to get up, Liston's rendition of a coma wouldn't have fooled a possum. (previous page) 102411 Liston 400.jpg 400 × 300; 47 KB. At the last possible second, he pivoted away from Sonny's long right. [92] Liston had been hospitalized in early December, complaining of chest pains. McCarter, a big man, matched his strength with Liston's. Patterson wanted a chance to redeem himself, so they met again on July 22, 1963, in Las Vegas. He faked and moved and varied the sequence of his punches, much the way Jersey Joe Walcott did in 1947 when he almost took the title from Joe Louis. The minute they upped it to a thousand I went into training." [11], Liston never complained about prison, saying he was guaranteed three meals every day. [13], Tobe Liston inflicted whippings so severe on Sonny that the scars were still visible decades later. Johnny left the house before the police did. In his 1965 rematch with Ali, Liston suffered an unexpected first-round knockout that led to unresolved suspicions of a fix. "That's how Marty kept his budget going," says Al De Napoli, Marshall's manager. Liston's noticeably more muscular left arm, crushing left jab and powerful left hook lent credence to the widely held belief that he was left-handed, although he fought in an orthodox stance. When cornered, however, he tied Liston up by grabbing him in the crook of each arm, his own forearms inside Liston's applying pressure to the outside. ", It was later theorized that a substance used on Liston's cuts by Joe Pollino, his cut man, may have caused the irritation. Banker said, "Sheriff [Ralph] Lamb told me, 'Tell your pal Sonny to stay away from the West Side because we're going to bust the drug dealers.'" Williams laid back and got smacked. Who needed that? Create Space Independent Publishing Platform. "If you stand back from him, it's his meat. After a rough upbringing, with little formal education, Liston found himself in trouble with the law. Januar 1971 von seiner Frau Geraldine, die ihre Familie in St. Louis besucht hatte, in seinem Haus in Las Vegas aufgefunden – er war vermutlich schon seit einer Woche tot, und sein Körper befand sich bereits im Zustand der Verwesung. [42], Liston's run-ins with the police had continued in Philadelphia. In an Associated Press poll, 64 of 102 reporters picked Patterson. "C'mon, Big Punch," he said. It was not a wild, fearful panic; it was clever and effective. Liston won 14 consecutive bouts, 13 by knockout, before fighting third-ranked Leotis Martin, previously beaten by Clark, in December 1969. He said they found Sonny lying on his bed with a needle sticking out of his arm. In a money match this would have made Liston cautious, but in training it made him mad. [58] Despite Liston carrying an injury and being undertrained, Ali stated in 1975 that the first fight with Liston was the toughest of his career. 1 heavyweight contender look bad by refusing to play straight man and passively accept his lumps. It was the first time in his career that Liston had been cut. Liston's handlers secretly paid sparring partner Amos Lincoln an extra $100 to take it easy on him. I think of my fight with him and I know I can beat him. The toxicology report said his body was too decomposed for the tests to be conclusive. Sonny Liston facing Eddie Machen in 1960. When he tried to push McCarter off, the burly college boy pulled back and often gave better than he got. MacArthur "Mac" Foster (June 27, 1942 – July 19, 2010) was a 20th century American heavyweight professional boxer.. [56] Sports Illustrated writer Tex Maule wrote that Liston's shoulder injury was legitimate. After the fight Liston once more showed up in Marshall's dressing room. Helen had one child before she married Tobe, and Tobe had 13 children with his first wife. McCarter, then a schoolteacher in Wilmington, Del., was so encouraged by his Sonny-doesn't-scare-me showing in the Liston camp that he quit teaching and is now training to return to the ring. If someone had a question, Sonny would say, 'Ask college boy, he knows all the answers." The referee stopped it in the sixth round when Marshall was knocked down for the fourth time. "I'd wait for that left, and then I'd counter, either under or over or both. Walcott never began a count in the ring because of Ali's non-compliance and his physical struggle with getting Ali to go to that neutral corner. "The timekeeper was waving both hands and saying, 'I counted him out—the fight is over,'" Walcott said after the fight. So I get him down, I get the sponge and I pour the water into his eyes trying to cleanse whatever's there, but before I did that I put my pinkie in his eye and I put it into my eye. [20], Liston signed a contract in September 1953, proclaiming: "Whatever you tell me to do, I'll do. On January 1, Liston's wife, Geraldine called Johnny Tocco and said she hadn't heard from her husband in 3 days and was worried. Numerous fans booed and started yelling, "Fix!" Zora Folley had Liston cowering and covering from a volley of combinations. Sonny Liston Jr. ID# 266727. "[68] The fact that Liston didn't complain about the clear breach of boxing rules (being declared knocked out without a count) and Ali's obvious state of bewilderment, shouting at Liston "Nobody will believe this" and asking his handlers "Did I hit him?" Date post: 13-Jun-2015: Category: Entertainment & Humor: View: 2,050 times: Download: 0 times: Download for free Report this document. The jab was just flicked out, merely intending to touch Liston, "to keep nagging him." The following year, Sonny—determined to reunite with his mother and siblings—thrashed the pecans from his brother-in-law's tree and sold them in Forrest City, Arkansas. Lumbering Howard King went eight rounds with Liston, standing toe to toe, swapping punches all the way. Cleveland Williams all but knocked Liston out. Prime Sonny Liston meets the quick-handed KO puncher Cleveland Williams for the first time. Former champions James J. Braddock, Jersey Joe Walcott, Ezzard Charles, Rocky Marciano and Ingemar Johansson all picked Patterson to win. [49], Ali later said that in round five he could only see a faint shadow of Liston during most of the round, but by circling and moving frantically he managed to avoid Liston and somehow survive. He says Cleveland Williams is the toughest guy he ever fought. A sudden violent combination delivered with 30 seconds left in the round electrified the crowd. "The right hand was the one I waited for," says McCarter. [16] The athletic director at Missouri State Penitentiary, Rev. "There was nothing Sonny feared more than a needle. The big difference in Sonny Liston now is in his confidence. Liston tried to throw McCarter out of the ring, but McCarter held on and both men flew into the ropes. His excuse is not important but the strategy he developed is. ", "I'd like to fight him again," says Marshall. Liston's an excellent fighter. Marshall foolishly tried for a knockout and was knocked down himself. His baleful, obsidian stare intimidates fighters, sportswriters and the occupants of the first 20 rows of any arena he enters. At that point, the fight was scored as even on the official scorecards. Stuttgarter Amtsblatt No. Sonny Liston. Liston went down. Hall of Fame announcer Don Dunphy said, "Here was a guy who was in prison and the guards used to beat him over the head with clubs and couldn't knock him down." When Patterson met with the president in January 1962, Kennedy suggested that Patterson avoid Liston, citing Justice Department concerns over Liston's ties to organized crime. [31] While Liston began working into shape with hopes for a heavyweight title shot, he also continued his criminal behavior. He succeeded well enough with this new task to win a close decision. Marshall gave Liston plenty to puzzle over. +++ Boxer werden vorgestellt +++ Jetzt geht es endlich los. Sports Illustrated writer Mort Sharnik said his hands "looked like cannonballs when he made them into fists." I protected myself. ", It was Liston who was almost demolished. 140221-muhammad-ali-sonny-liston-fight-15.jpg 1,200 × 898; 415 KB. "I needed the money, so I fought him anyway," Machen says. McCarter rolled away from the right and, as Liston lunged forward, he chopped back with his own right hand. Sonny repeatedly sought a Frazier fight in the 1960’s as Joe rose up to champion, and Sonny desperately sought another title shot. "[77] While much has been written about the effectiveness of his left jab, others have commented favorably on Liston's wide range of boxing skills. I was down but not hurt, but I looked up and saw Ali standing over me. he caught me with my mouth open, and bam! That got him killed. Marshall, comparatively small hut the only man to beat Liston, inflicted heavy damage in three fights by slipping Sonny's left jab, blocking the right with his elbow, then moving in with a right to the unprotected heart or over the arm to the jaw. [9][10] It has been suggested Liston himself may not have known what year he was born, as he was not precise on the matter. "After three or four rounds of this," recalls Whitehurst, "Sonny's belly began to get the message, but he couldn't escape and he couldn't retaliate. "He had a deadly fear of needles," said Davey Pearl, a boxing referee and friend of Liston's. As a Philly sports anchor, I got to know Joe Frazier. Media in category ‘Sonny Liston Gallery’ The following 200 files are in this category, out of 221 total. Biographer Wilfrid Sheed wrote in his book, Muhammad Ali: A Portrait in Words and Photographs, that Ali's protests were heard by ringside members of the Nation of Islam who initially suspected Dundee had blinded his fighter, and that the trainer deliberately wiped his own eyes with the corner sponge to demonstrate to Ali's approaching bodyguards that he had not intentionally blinded him. Sonny Liston, American boxer who was world heavyweight boxing champion from September 25, 1962, when he knocked out Floyd Patterson, until February 25, 1964, when he stopped a fight with Cassius Clay (afterward Muhammad Ali). The tepid publicity campaign to pass off the heavyweight champion as a Good Humor man in disguise has fallen as flat as Floyd Patterson. 15 talking about this. Liston was supremely confident of easily beating Ali, trained minimally for the fight and went ahead with it despite an injury to his left shoulder.[44]. In his sixth bout, he faced ranked heavyweight Johnny Summerlin (18-1-2) on national television and won in an eight-round decision. [15] Liston—aged around 13, according to his later reckonings—remained in Arkansas with his father. "He said, 'Cut the gloves off. A widely publicized account of Liston resisting arrest—even after nightsticks were allegedly broken over his skull—added to the public perception of him as a nightmarish "monster" impervious to physical punishment. Sonny Liston - The Boxer. Whitehurst had learned his lesson, but so had Liston, and Sonny thereafter refused to force the fight. "Yes, it was good and honest". He didn't remember losing, either. Liston was the subject of a 1995 HBO documentary titled Sonny Liston: The Mysterious Life and Death of a Champion. Some of these fights were long ago, and Liston has improved; perhaps none of the fighters could do as well against Liston today, although at least four are eager to try. A dominant contender of his era, he became the world heavyweight champion in 1962 after knocking out Floyd Patterson in the first round, repeating the knockout the following year in defense of the title; in the latter fight he also became the inaugural WBC heavyweight champion. Liston knocked out Hermann Schreibauer of West Germany at 2:16 of the first round. He was too big for Liston to throw around, and his body blows hurt the future champ. It irritates him that his professional record is not perfect, that he was beaten by Marty Marshall. At about 30 seconds into the round he hit Liston with several combinations, causing a bruise under Liston's right eye and a cut under his left, which eventually required eight stitches to close. Februar 1964 krönte sich Cassius Clay alias Muhammad Ali gegen Sonny Liston zum Champion. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Sonny Liston facing Eddie Machen in 1960. in der zehnten Runde, weshalb ihm ein Comeback offen zu stehen schien. [52][53] It was the first time since 1919—when Jack Dempsey defeated Jess Willard—that a world heavyweight champion had quit on his stool. According to George Foreman, Liston hit far harder than he did. "La foule elle-même était en train de changer", dit-il. After repeated overnight detention by the St. Louis police and a thinly veiled threat to his life, Liston left for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [30], Liston became the No. Also, McDonough did not bang on the canvas or motion a number count with his fingers. Sonny Liston, I think was possibly the greatest intimidator of all time. As the years passed and Liston's financial situation worsened, he got angry and told the mob he'd go public with the story unless they gave him the money. No man can get away with that forever.". He was on his feet as the 12-round bout ended. In a rematch Marshall knocked Liston down. During the fourth round Liston appeared dominant as Ali coasted, keeping his distance. At one point, Ali was wiping his eyes with his right hand while extending his left arm—"like a drunk leaning on a lamppost" Bert Sugar wrote—to keep Liston at bay. Hurt, he covered up. Controversy followed with claims that Liston had been drinking heavily the night before the fight and had entered the bout with a lame shoulder. Patterson was a changed fighter when he fought Sonny. Expecting a counter, Liston pulled up the right and at the same time Marshall dropped down, stepped in and landed a solid right under Liston's heart. [73], Writer Gilbert Rogin assessed Liston's style and physique after his win over Zora Folley. At one point in this attack, Liston was rocked as he was driven to the ropes. [6] Liston was inducted into the international Boxing Hall of Fame in 1991. They fought for the first time in St. Louis on April 3, 1958, and Whitehurst tried to counter Liston's jab and failed. Current heavyweight superstars … Walcott never did pick up the count. Underworld connections and his unrecorded dates of birth and death added to the enigma. Time magazine said Liston had worked himself into the best shape of his career. Even though it was in the record books. The connections to organized crime were an advantage early in his career, but were later used against him. A Tribute to Sonny Liston, a man who was born with nothing and made something out of his life. Banker later learned that the police told Liston the same thing to his face. [14] In 1946, Helen Baskin, along with some of her children, moved to St. Louis, Missouri, to seek factory work. Liston retired in his corner due to an inflamed shoulder. Two more arrests -- for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest and another for impersonating a cop -- led to Liston being suspended by the Pennsylvania Athletic Commission on July 14, 1961. After two rounds, Wilson had taken enough. Liston captured the Chicago Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions on March 6, 1953, with a victory over 1952 Olympic Heavyweight Champion Ed Sanders. Jump to:navigation, search. Even in their own households. The bullying tactics he learned from line play and the easy head and shoulder fakes practiced by backs stood him in good stead as a fighter. At a time of growing racial unrest, he was cast in the public imagination as the angry, dangerous black man. Six days before the Harold Johnson-Liston match [Pittsburgh, March 6, 1956], Johnson comes up with a shoulder injury. He stayed inside and traded punches. It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. He would later employ McCarter as a sparring partner. Sonny Liston photographié avec les célèbres gangsters de Londres, les jumeaux Kray, en 1965. After the second loss to Ali, Liston stayed out of the ring for more than a year. Three days before the fight, Ali needed emergency surgery for a strangulated hernia. [69] There have been a number of unproven theories as to the background to the purported dive including that Liston was threatened by the Muslims, or agreed to lose in return for a share in the more marketable Ali's future purses. The two fights between Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston for boxing's World Heavyweight Championship were among the most anticipated, watched and controversial fights in the sport's history. He was a very clever fighter who later that year knocked out Bob Satterfield and was ranked nationally. I know it", Liston said afterward. In The Devil and Sonny Liston by Nick Tosches, published in 2000, when many of Liston's former acquaintances were still alive, Tosches posits that Liston's idol Joe Louis introduced him to heroin, and that he ultimately overdosed. [4][5] Alfie Potts Harmer in The Sportster also ranked him the third greatest heavyweight and the sixth greatest boxer at any weight. Liston was knocked down in the first round, but came back to control the next two rounds and had Griffin hanging on at the end. Anxious to show off, Sonny quickly used up his meager supply of sparring partners by knocking one out and breaking the rib of another. He talked of a fight with Joe Frazier, claiming, "It'd be like shooting fish in a barrel." From BoxRec (Redirected from Fight:19608) Jump to:navigation, search. [25][26], In 1960 Liston won five more fights, including a rematch with Williams, who lasted only two rounds. He also went with a new manager in 1958: Joseph "Pep" Barone, who was a front man for mobsters Frankie Carbo and Frank "Blinky" Palermo. He competed from 1966 to 1976, winning 30 of his 36 professional bouts, with all his victories coming by way of knockout. Liston went down at 1:44, got up at 1:56, and Walcott stopped the fight at 2:12. The opening round was fought an extra eight seconds, since both fighters and referee Barney Felix apparently did not hear the bell. "He said: 'Look what they did!' Jimmy McCarter, who beat Liston in an AAU championship bout, later stood up to him defiantly in training camp. His journey toward becoming a professional boxer began in ‘Missouri State Penitentiary,’ where he was sentenced for five years. Instead, he exposed the flaw that Whitehurst had found: Liston's power can be neutralized by fighting in close. Byrne sought an injunction blocking the fight in Boston because Inter-Continental Promotions was promoting the fight without a Massachusetts license. His jab is fracturing and his hook is cold storage. It was probably Liston's best moment in the entire fight. Trainer Charlie Brown told Whitehurst to slip the jab, to take a quick step inside and throw his own left hand. [35] Liston's victory was loudly booed. Ancient history? 24 talking about this. America's first look at Liston since the Ali rematch was when he fought fifth–ranked Henry Clark in a nationally broadcast bout in July 1968. Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston waren zwei Boxkämpfe, in denen am 25. Leotis Martin (June 17, 1939 – November 20, 1995) was an American boxer, the first ever NABF heavyweight champion and is best known for his victory over former heavyweight champion Sonny Liston.Martin was a good puncher and a fairly skilled heavyweight who fought from 1962 to 1969. He won eight fights that year, six by knockout. "[35] However, in 1963 in the aftermath of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, Liston broke off a European boxing exhibition tour to return home and was quoted as saying he was "ashamed to be in America. [75][76] Foreman stated "There wasn't anything missing from Sonny Liston. [27][28], Liston's streak of nine straight knockout victories ended when he won a unanimous twelve-round decision against Eddie Machen on September 7, 1960. In close, McCarter kept hammering at Liston's body. Die genaue Todesursache konnte nie geklärt werden, offiziell wurde Drogenmissbrauch als Grund angegeben. Boston: Little, Brown. [citation needed], Liston competed in the 1953 United States National Championships at Boston Garden, passed the preliminaries stopping Lou Graff in the second round on April 13, but lost in the quarterfinals to 17-year-old Jimmy McCarter on April 15. Editor, Admin and Moderator for www.boxrec.com The interference of ringside reporters regarding interpretation of the rules, the fight stoppage and the controversy after the fight had not been seen since The Long Count Fight between champion Gene Tunney and challenger Jack Dempsey in 1927. (3) The mob promised Liston some money to throw the second Ali fight, but they never paid him. "Every time Liston stuck out his left in the first round," Whitehurst says, "it was as if he held a stick in his hand and the stick was telling me to stand back.". At times McCarter would step back, giving Liston punching space. [55], There is ample evidence that Liston did carry an injury to his left shoulder into the fight. Beginnen wir mit dem Tod: Der Boxer Charles L. Liston, genannt Sonny, wurde am 5. And I said, 'Whoa, whoa, back up, baby. One of the victories was over Amos Johnson, who had recently defeated British champion Henry Cooper. Liston, one of 25 children by his father, is reputed to have been born in May 1932, yet prison records show various birth dates, among them 1928. Both fights were in Summerlin's hometown of Detroit, Michigan.[23]. [83], Liston married Geraldine Chambers in St. Louis, Missouri on September 3, 1957. Liston's criminal record, compounded by a personal association with a notorious labor racketeer, led to the police's stopping him on sight, and he began to avoid main streets. "It is a strong punch, all right," he recollected, "but it's so long that it is easy to slip. "When we met in Pittsburgh for the third fight, I was able to score with a variation of this same trick," Marshall says. Charles L. "Sonny" Liston (c. 1930 – December 30, 1970) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1953 to 1970. Liston appears as a character in James Ellroy's novel The Cold Six Thousand. This is part of the Detroit Free Press account of the Marshall-Liston fight of Sept. 8, 1954: "Marshall, who fights from an extremely unorthodox style which finds him as a right-hander one minute and a southpaw the next, confused Liston through most of the bout. Sonny's attempt to characterize Marshall as a clown and the defeat as a fluke is widely circulated and generally accepted—but not by people who saw the fight, and certainly not by Marty Marshall. American boxer. I'd tap him on the chin and remind him of that broken jaw.". And he does not like to be hit in the gut." He competed from 1966 to 1976, winning 30 of his 36 professional bouts, with all his victories coming by way of knockout. These four developed individual styles for fighting Sonny. Dr. Alexander Robbins, chief physician for the Miami Beach Boxing Commission, diagnosed Liston with a torn tendon in his left shoulder. In the 2001 film Ali, Liston was portrayed by former WBO Heavyweight Champion Michael Bentt. 1964, Sonny Liston, wurde hingegen von seinem trinkenden Vater fast täglich mit der Peitsche geschlagen und zur Arbeit aufs Feld geschickt anstatt in die Schule. The pertinent experiences arc those of McCarter, Whitehurst, Marshall and, to a lesser extent, Machen. Bert Whitehurst twice lasted 10 rounds to decisions. Dennis Caputo of the Clark County Sheriff's Department was one of the first officers on the scene. Liston won his final fight, a tough but one-sided match against future world title challenger Chuck Wepner in June 1970. Charles L. " Sonny " Liston (c. 1930 – c. December 30, 1970) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1953 to 1970. [48] The challenger, his arms held high in surrender, was demanding that the fight be stopped and Dundee, fearing the fight might indeed be halted, gave his charge a one-word order: "Run! He gives the orders—but his opponents can have something to do with this. Referee Jersey Joe Walcott, a former world heavyweight champion himself, had a hard time getting Ali to go to a neutral corner. Maybe the first volley wouldn't dent him but I'd keep it up until he began to grunt or back off. [71], —Chuck Wepner on Liston's intimidating appearance. In the course of the fight, Marshall couldn't remember being touched by a jab at all. He cited Liston's inability to lift his arm: "There is no doubt that Liston's arm was damaged. Zora Folley est un boxeur américain né le 22 janvier 1932 à Dallas, Texas et mort le 9 juillet 1972.. Carrière. [85] Former light-heavyweight champion Jose Torres said, "I have never met an athlete in baseball, basketball or football who is smarter, more intelligent than Sonny Liston". 84″ / 213cm: residence: Saint Louis, Missouri, États-Unis: birth place: Johnson Township, Arkansas, États-Unis Pro Boxing Career 54 bouts. [90] Coroner Mark Herman said traces of heroin byproducts were found in Liston's system, but not in amounts large enough to have caused his death. He was forced to use McCarter. "For six rounds I took a good beating. I didn't want anything to do with him. [citation needed] Arthur Daley of the New York Times wrote that Liston's handlers knew he "didn't have it anymore. Sonny Liston is a proud man with a sense of history. Because of the shirt he wore during robberies, the St. Louis police called Liston the "Yellow Shirt Bandit." Dave Anderson of the New York Times said Liston "looked awful" in his last workout before the fight. Patterson did the same thing. says Marshall, "but he was trying. Once, in the middle rounds, Marshall was hurt by a right hand to the body, but he used Liston's dodge—never let on you're hurt—and snarled and feinted an uppercut. ID# 009031. Charles L. « Sonny » Liston est un boxeur américain né le 8 mai 1932 à Sand Slough, Arkansas, et mort le 30 décembre 1970 à Las Vegas. "But I never knew he was hurt," says Marshall. Liston returned to the United States and won seven fights, all by knockout, in 1968. [36], Jack Dempsey spoke for many when he was quoted as saying that Sonny Liston should not be allowed to fight for the title. Midway through the first round, Liston threw a left jab and Ali went over it with a fast right, knocking the former champion down. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. After three fights he was still frustrated by Marshall's style. Although Ali often carried his gloves down at his waist, seemingly open to attack, he proved very difficult to hit. The previous month, Schreibauer had won a bronze medal in the European Championships. Am Abend des 30. Liston est l'un … Sonny Liston 217 lbs beat George Johnson 212 lbs by TKO at 2:55 in round 7 of 10. Los geht's. 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