Was boxing legend Sonny Liston’s OD really a mob murder?

[willychichi]

Was ‘Pariah’ boxing legend Sonny Liston’s OD really a mob murder?

Sonny Liston ranks among boxing’s greatest — even Mike Tyson called him “a badass.” But the man who beat Floyd Patterson to become the 1962 Heavyweight Champion of the world led a brief, brutal much-reviled life that ended, at 40, under mysterious circumstances. As recounted in the Showtime documentary “Pariah: The Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston,” premiering Friday, Liston had it rough from the start. A sharecropper’s son, he was reportedly yoked to a plow and whipped while tending his father’s fields. He later became a drug dealer and a kneecapping money collector for the mob.

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[bert]

This story comes up under different versions every 10 years. Now it may have been a hooker, that's a new one. Ali was coming back and his people did not want Liston talking, or even being interviewed about the dive he took. Ali was with the Nation of Islam. If Liston's death was not natural, they would be the main suspects. If the Mafia had even the littlest to do with it, the feds and local DA's would have been all over it.


This is another Blacks vs Italians storyline. The same as that fictional Bumby Johnson fighting Chin Gigante storyline from the tv show.

[bert]

Liston was also not an "All time Great" as they said. Patterson had been protected by Cus D'amato and Liston was his first tough opponent as champ. Liston turned over the title right away, and never came close to a title shot again

[machinegunfunk]

What would be the point