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Entries tagged with "Sonny+Liston":

• Chuck Wepner Biopic – May 11th, 2011

  
  
  

• Write on the Money – May 18th, 2011

  “With each punch, the glove did something different, as if the fist and wrist within the glove were also speaking...”
  
  

• Greatest Moments in the Ring – July 7th, 2011

  
  
  

• Lions of Winter No. 1: Marvin “The Weasel” Elkind – July 11th, 2011

  "The Weasel" has a list of backseat patrons that have included Ali, Frazier, Dempsey, Louis, Chuvalo, Liston, Marciano, Mancini, Moore, and Pryor…
  
  

• Ringside with Boxing's Biggest Expert (Part Two) – July 23rd, 2011

  I am right off the corner and Sweet Pea is giving it to Zab, "Fight back! Fight back!" Judah bleeding and family, mom and kids are crying...
  
  

• 10 Greatest Upsets in Heavyweight History – April 10th, 2012

  There's nothing like an upset to make one believe. All the questionable decisions that cast doubt on the sport are rendered meaningless when an upset occurs. And when the upset is during a contest between world-class heavyweights, the satisfaction is that much greater. This sampling covers some of the greatest upsets among heavyweights in history and includes Foreman-Frazier, Norton-Ali, Rahman-Lewis, Ali-Foreman, Louis-Schmeling, Clay-Liston, Braddock-Baer, and Tyson-Douglas...
  
  

• Cassius Clay vs. Sonny Liston – July 31st, 2011

  It was February 25, 1964. The fight was for the heavyweight championship of the world. In one corner you had the champ, boxing’s Darth Vader, the formidable Sonny Liston. In the opposite corner you had the young challenger, a poetry-spouting loudmouth from Louisville, Kentucky, named Cassius Clay (soon be known as Muhammad Ali). The experts gave Clay a snowball's chance in hell of beating Liston. Watch this fight if for no other reason than to be reminded that the experts, whatever their pedigree, are as often wrong as they are right...
  
  

• The Early Death of Sonny Liston – August 12th, 2011

  It's been said that only the good die young, which doesn’t do much to explain Sonny Liston. He was born dirt poor, could neither read nor write, but he was able to do things with his fists that proved useful. Before he became a boxer, he was an armed robber known as the "Yellow Shirt Bandit," but that was the only thing yellow about him. No stranger to jail, no stranger to the mob, Liston was eased into the pro game and won the heavyweight title from Floyd Patterson in 1962. But whether it was in or out of the ring, Liston was one mean SOB, and made the bad old George Foreman, the bad old Mike Tyson, look like amateurs by comparison. After losing his title to Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) in 1964, Liston was no longer the malevolent force of nature everyone assumed. And when he was found dead in his bedroom in 1971, in the midst of negotiations for a fight with George Chuvalo, Liston's story required a rewrite…
  
  

• Dan Hill Sings Pacman's Praises – September 7th, 2011

  
  
  

• Muhammad Ali vs. Vitali Klitschko – September 13th, 2011

  
  
  

• Jack the Ripper’s Dead: Sonny Liston – September 27th, 2011

  There always has to be a boogieman to keep us on our toes and fire our humdrum lives with some dangerous excitement...
  
  

• The Best I Ever Saw: Alan Kahn – September 28th, 2011

  Roy Jones hitting the bag side to side with one hand. Fantastic. Floyd hitting the bag one-handed while looking at the HBO camera? Oldest trick in the book…
  
  

• "The Real Rocky" Premieres Tonight – October 25th, 2011

  “Wepner walked into the gymnasium. He was wearing a pimp hat, a full-length fur coat, and lots of bling jewelry…”
  
  

• Chuck Wepner: "The Real Rocky" – October 31st, 2011

  ESPN's documentary “The Real Rocky,” directed by Jeff Feuerzeig and produced by Triple Threat TV’s Matthew McDonald, traces Chuck Wepner’s exploits in and out of the ring, including his battle with Sylvester Stallone, and is based on a series of interviews Feuerzeig conducted with the perennial contender in 2005. The defining fight of the Bayonne Bleeder's career was a shot at the heavyweight title held by Muhammad Ali on March 24, 1975, in Cleveland, Ohio. Wepner was, if nothing else, one tough SOB...
  
  

• Big Daddy: Should He Be Inducted into the Hall? – November 2nd, 2011

  Bowe slaughtered highly touted trash-talking Jorge Luis Gonzalez. He did this like a butcher works on fresh meat…
  
  

• Jim Lampley: Boxing’s Vibrant Expressionist – November 16th, 2011

  “The bottom line is that boxing attracts literate observers because the psychological confrontation between two fighters is so compelling—and so identifiable...”
  
  

• Rock Solid: Magnificent Marciano – November 27th, 2011

  Now to the big question: How good a heavyweight puncher was Rocky Marciano? The simple answer is that he was one of the true elite...
  
  

• Howard Cosell: Thrilla in Vanilla – November 28th, 2011

  The alternately silly and serious, rambunctious and devout Cassius Clay posed a real threat to the status quo…
  
  

• Ten-Count for Tommy DeJohn – November 30th, 2011

  
  
  

• Moon Shots! Sonny and Jerry’s Black December – December 22nd, 2011

  It seemed entirely fitting that the stage was left to professional boxing to set off the last couple of explosions...
  
  

• Boxing In and Out of the Ring – December 22nd, 2011

  The documentary Boxing In and Out of the Ring examines some of shadier aspects of our beloved sport—namely the games promoters play with fight managers and sanctioning bodies to get their fighters the rankings and big money fights they desire. Using interviews, fight footage, and hidden FBI surveillance cameras, the picture painted isn't a pretty one, but it's something that has been going on long before most of us were even born...
  
  

• Sonny Liston vs. Floyd Patterson I & II – April 4th, 2012

  Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson fought two times. Their first fight was on Sept. 25, 1962, at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Their second fight was on July 22, 1963, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Patterson won the heavyweight title by defeating Archie Moore in 1956. He lost the title to Ingemar Johansson in 1959 by a TKO3, and won it back from the Swede nine months later with a fifth round knockout, becoming the first man in boxing history to ever regain the heavyweight crown. "To watch Liston overcome Patterson in tapes of their fights," wrote Joyce Carol Oates, "is to watch the defeat of 'civilization' by something so elemental and primitive it cannot be named..."
  
  

• Why Ali Has Never Gone Away – January 16th, 2012

  Muhammad Ali’s career is marked by undulations, great ups and downs, jarring defeats and comebacks...
  
  

• Lions of Winter No. 3: Goody Petronelli Way – January 30th, 2012

  "We already watched the tape of both Syd and Fitz,” said Goody. “Let’s let them work tonight and make sure one last time everybody is comfortable..."
  
  

• Angelo Dundee: Making Boxing Fun Again – February 2nd, 2012

  Dundee was a man of great compassion and integrity who made his living in a business known for its bullies, thieves and hypocrites…
  
  

• First Round KOs – March 21st, 2012

  Here's a look at some of the most significant early KOs ever to grace the sometimes graceless heavyweight division…
  
  

• The Big Bombers: Shavers & Co. – April 2nd, 2012

  Like a big shark casting its shadow, you simply never knew what Shavers was going to do next. Would he simply bump you or take a big bite?
  
  

• The Great Comeback: Floyd Patterson – April 11th, 2012

  Patterson was a deeply sensitive man, the kind of rare soul who rarely uttered a derogatory word about others...
  
  

• Runaway Train: The Prime George Foreman – May 9th, 2012

  Those opponents who saw any light at the end of the tunnel were usually staring at Foreman’s oncoming train...
  
  

• Old School – May 14th, 2012

  Old school was a behavior influenced by the mores and values of another era. If someone calls me a throwback, I kind of like it…