The 24th of 25 children, born into a large and poverty-stricken sharecropping family in Arkansas, Charles “Sonny” Liston’s precise date of birth remains unknown, as does the exact date of ...

In Charles "Sonny" Liston, the late boxer who briefly held the heavyweight title in the early 1960s, Tosches again has a perfect netherworld subject. For Liston, a convicted felon who provided hired ...

Charles "Sonny" Liston took up boxing in prison. When Liston was paroled in 1952 after an armed robbery conviction, he started fighting competitively as an amateur.

The scene: a recent press conference at the training camp of Heavyweight Challenger Charles (“Sonny”) Liston, in New York’s Catskill Mountains. Liston has not yet arrived; Trainer Willie ...

THE SPORTING SCENE about the return match between Charles (Sonny) Liston & Floyd Patterson July 22, at Las Vegas. Last Sept., Liston won the heavyweight … ...

I n the visitors’ dressing room deep beneath the stands at Chicago’s Comiskey Park, Charles Sonny Liston, 28, sat swaddled in towels and a white terry-cloth bathrobe. He stared at the green ...