Sports
Did the Mob Snuff Sonny Liston, Or Did He Do It Himself? : THE DEVIL AND SONNY LISTON By Nick Tosches; Little, Brown: 266 pp., $24.95
April 30, 2000
To millions who had seen him fight, the headline was incomprehensible: “Sonny Liston Found Dead in Las Vegas.”
Dec. 30, 1999
When it happened, more than 19 years ago, it was a shock. And, in a way, it’s still a shock.
Feb. 22, 1989
Twenty-five years ago today, 4,200 people in a Lewiston, Me., high school hockey rink saw either boxing’s most shameful charade or, depending on where they were sitting, a tired, old heavyweight knocked out by a perfectly legitimate punch.
Aug. 5, 2015
May 25, 1990
You will pardon me if the keys slip as I try to write this story.
Only three of 46 sportswriters covering the fight had picked him to win.
Feb. 25, 1999
The ending was so weird people may always think it smelled, but throw out the suspicions.
“You take Sonny Liston,” Cassius Clay was saying here, “he’s the champion of the world, and that’s supposed to take in America.
It’s known as the fight of the “phantom punch,” that sweltering night 20 years ago Saturday when a sneering Cassius Clay KO’d Sonny Liston and forever changed the face of boxing.
May 26, 1985