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 ...

All the crow in China wouldn't be enough to satisfy the appetites of the cognoscenti of the boxing world tonight as young Cassius Marcellus Clay demolished the legend of Sonny Liston with a seven ...

A shortsighted sportswriter a few months back dared to ink the late New York Yankees with Sonny Liston in some absurd metaphor about twin colossuses astride the narrow world of sports. What with ...

Clay was in training for his bout with Sonny Liston, the reigning world champion, who had underworld ties and a heavy, flooring punch. Veteran sportswriters said the pretty kid wouldn’t last ...

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PerDeadline, Amin Joseph is set to play Sonny Liston in The Greatest. Joseph is best known for his roles in FX's Snowfall and To Live and Die and Live. Liston was the Heavyweight champ before ...

Joseph will play his rival, heavyweight champion Sonny Liston. Nicknamed “The Bear,” Liston had been considered unbeatable until he lost the title in 1964 to loud-mouthed underdog Muhammad Ali ...

Sixty years ago this year, a glib boxer named Cassius Clay came to Lewiston to defend his world heavyweight crown against former champion Sonny Liston. It didn’t take Clay long to win.

On May 25, 1965, Muhammad Ali knocked out Sonny Liston in the first round of their second fight. Watch Ali's most iconic bouts on ESPN+.