Sonny is one of the most underrated boxers ever. The man was unstoppable, tough as they come and a true gentleman of the sport. Sadly he's mostly remembered for being beaten by Ali. Have a look into his career and you'll find a new favourite of the art of boxing
Recuerdas cuando le acercó el rostro a Muhammad Ali y lo cegó por un par de rondas? Eso es un acto antideportivo y de ningún modo una acción propia de un caballero del boxeo. Mi humilde y respetuosa opinión. Saludos
@@malekat8539 as the younger Clay, he cut up alot of opponents that's how his hands were. As for Sonny, he got too into his whole destroyer persona. If he'd of focused on his boxing abilities he'd of been a match for Ali, anyone in the history of boxing. He made it into the 70s but his KO loss he had before the wepnar fight was devastating.
@@sorakazama7031 except Foreman still lived long enough to finally get his appreciation unlike Liston who unfortunately only gpt appreciated by boxing fans long after his death
@@DarkLabProductions really doesn't tho. alot of the stories about liston are made up by boxing officials in the 50s, to make him look bad. in reality the only reason liston was hated by officials was because he was in with the mafia.
“There’s no one that can stop me, my style is impeccable, my defence is impregnable, and am just curious, I want his heart, I wanna ear his children, praise be to ALLAH”
“I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it's egotistical, but I have it in me. I don't want to be a tycoon. I just want to conquer people and their souls.” “My power is discombobulatingly devastating. I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.” "I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures like," ………………………….."I can't...define” - Mike Tyson
@@MrZida88 Most sad thing was when Liston became the hw champ and prepared a speech, when he would arrive in his hometown. Sadly no one was there to greet him, he was hurt badly after that
This man life story is painful, from running away from an abusive dad. The dad was a former slave n didn’t know how to parent because he also had a horrific past of enslavement and the abuse and that came with it.
His father was an ex slave....? In the 20t century? The civil War was in the 1860's. How did a slave love long enough to have a child in the 1920's-1930's?
@@Brotherken1234 Tobe Liston was a sharecropper, however Sonny's grandfather was a slave under Sir Robert Liston's plantation in Louisiana, and Sonny's grandmother came from a plantation in Missouri. Tobe Liston however never had a chance to be anything else but a sharecropper because he didn't have jobs available to him because of the regulations of Jim Crow, Segregation, and living in a Dixie state with post-confederate racist politicians.
Beating average fighters gets you to the BIG FIGHT THE CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE BOUT and that is where GREATNESS is had. That is where you build your legacy and Liston did noting in that category.
Damn fucked up part is no one actually ever told him that. But he still had this positive message for the youth. A real strong man in every definition of the word.
I believe he had a good heart and was forced to do bad things to survive. The world created this monster, he wasnt born that way. Love and respect to a great champion.
Think about it. The reason why people didn't accept him is because they never understood what he to go through. Back then he wasn't relatable to the forced and contrived image of society the press or the NAACP created to seem better than the other. Liston was probably the most honest human being in terms of sacrificing and doing what people would have to do in order to survive, he put up with the pressure and stigma of being the bad guy and his mercurial yet seemingly invincible aura resonates with a lot of diehard boxing fans.
There was a story that Liston was in a casino one day were a big time gangster just happened to be there at the same time and Liston kept tapping him or something, the gangster warned him not to do it again or he would have him killed, a few days later Liston was found dead and was injected with a needle and he has a huge needle phobia so he wouldn't have done it himself. They said he overdosed on drugs he was Injecting into himself but why would a man with a phobia of needles do that.
@@williamalexander6130 yes that's probably true brother I won't say your wrong because its simply a story I heard as I stated and I don't know if it's true or not but either way I guess we will never know.
In later years he was likely a drug addict. Heroin and weed was found in his home. He was known to drink, which afftected his preparation to Ali -fights (second was pretty clearly fixed anyway, Sonny was in with the Outfit. Besides, nobody knew his birth date and he was likely literally twice Ali’s age). Of course his friends and family didn’t want him to be remembered that way, especially since he was treated so badly as a champion in his life time. It doesn’t really matter anymore. He was a great boxer and although ruthless and violent to his enemies in and outside the ring, very loving and caring man to his family and children. He was a tragic character who in his life had to withstand more pain than any man should.
@Joske Vermeulen This was 1971 in Vegas, a mob-owned town. Liston was no Robert Kennedy, they could have clipped him middle of The Strip and cops wouldn’t have investigated anyway. So why would they go through all that trouble, especially since it’s not their style anyway? His wife, who found him, waited until 3h until calling the cops. Plenty of time to to get rid of needles and spoons. I don’t really see a great conspiracy here.
No one actually realised how much of a great guy Sonny actually was.. If he had a father figure in his life as well as a superb boxing trainer, God knows how far this man would’ve gone.. 💥
It's crazy that despite his intensity and how intimidating and scary he could be, he also was a sweet man whose close friends and family loved him, but he would keep his emotions hidden so well. Poor guy went home a champion and not a single person from his hometown was there to see him. Apparently you could see him go from standing straight with pride to dropping his shoulder out of sadness
As time goes by I am becoming a massive Liston fan. He was the first of the modern heavyweights. A genuine big man with extreme power. His jab was phenomenal! What he did to Patterson in their fights was terrifying!
The story of him quietly being told when he gets home all his fans and writers/journalists will be there to greet him. Prompting him to write a speech and for the first time seem happy only for him to get off the train and see no one. That crushed him though he wouldn’t show it but those around him knew it. The world turned its back on him when he thought he made it. That and now for the first time people rooted for him was when he fought Ali only to be defeated then again in the rematch where they claimed he threw the fight.
This mans life was harder than anything people could ever experience in today’s US for him to have went through it all without a single complaint speaks volumes about his character Rest In Peace to one of the all time greats that should have been far more appreciated before now
Couldn't agree with you more.... Sonny Liston was a kind giving man... The press didn't even cover the work he did for orphans in the south...he created numerous orphanages that housed over 5,000 troubled children in the South....as soon as he retired he thought of nothing but giving back, he wanted to be a school mentor in Clark county Las Vegas for troubled youths when he retired and while he was at his peak he said in an interview he wanted to start a nationwide after school exercise Initiative for kids.
There was this one story about Liston going to one child's school on a phone call... Think about it...when was the last time you ever saw a famous person be that down to earth to give a child out his phone number, the kid requests him to visit his school, and shows up a day later to give kids a day off from school to get autographs.........
I love Frazier , he was war personified, but styles make fights and Sonny would be like George for Joe. Joe took jabs to get to you and Sonny had a jab like a car crash , I dont see Joe getting round it
@@scottg6754 I dont know if I'd call Sonny a slow starter, but he'd use the first round or two to feel his opponents out and adjust his style. George came out the gate dropping bombs. I can't say who hit harder- and not taking anything away from Big George, but Liston was the more skilled as a boxer.
My god you can see the size of his arms against his shirt. I’d hate like hell to get punched by him. I’m surprised anyone got up from that. May he Rest In Peace.
Largest fists in boxing had his gloves specially made. His reach was of someone about six inches taller as well so his physical attributes were perfect Marty that with his immense strength and his tough mindset and also his great boxing skill and you have a real life intimidating hard hitting knockout machine in his prime I think he could have beaten anybody.
This was a man that grew up a hard life and when he had enough he joined boxing and yet was ao good he became a world champion dropping floyd Patterson and few days later flying back to his home town he ever so excited he had he notes and was ready to have a crowed of thousands waiting for him it was like he was a little bitty boy again he was so excited but when the time came and when he stepped off that plane hr had to face like a man that no one was there even though if it was anyone else thay would be greeted but this man faced it got embarrassed by Muhammad Ali in the 6th round later and when he got a remach not only was it a remach it was a chance a chance to be on top of the world and hopefully be on the world but thats when the mobb came in and put a bet wich forced sonny to surrender his miracle was ruined😔 and when he surrendered at that moment it was not only a boxer but kind yet beast of a man that had step down and after that he knew he didint have chance anymore the cold stale air that had a taste of hate and bitterness and the thousands of eyes looking at him and he was laughed at and he knew that je had to put the gloves down take off the boxing shorts and and unlace the boots and had to accept that he will never be accepted as a human being and later he was found dead with a needle in his arm with a lifetime phobia of needles😞said it was the mobb some say it was suicide but was i say is that sadly he died great but died thinking he was a failure some say that he forgave us from heaven but the scary truth is that we dont know if there is one and thats the depressing story of sonny liston🙃
@@jonathanyng i was born in 1999 but my soul lived through every generation since the ancient times. So I've been around in the early 18 hundreds i lived in England during the peaky blinders, i lived during napoleon time, i was alive during the nazis, i saw ali beat sonny liston . I saw it all my friend. Time isn't real, i live forever. Saw basically i have a time machine no one have access too except me.
The look in his eyes "idk anymore if it's me or them I just don't know how I feel about life" sonny was a misunderstood man people treated him wrong only because they were afraid of what he can do not that he will actually do it.
This was a deeply tough man. Not someone screaming around about how tough he is cause of insecurity. Situations made him like this, and I wish no one goes through what this man did. You can tell from his eyes, he had a good heart. They don't make them like this no more.
I agree people dont give liston enough credit, ali was a freak of nature and because of that we seem to forget about skinny if sonny wasn't in the era of ali he would probably dominate for longer
Fun fact: The most iconic picture of Mohammed Ali where he is towering over fallen Sonny Liston is when Ali knew he purposefully threw the fight. Ali was made and asking him to get up. Sonny was one of GOAT in his own ways, only appreciated after his death.
Ali never believed that Liston threw the fight. He believed he sent him down with a food shot, was screaming taunts at him, and believed he stayed down because he was afraid of getting caught up in an assassination attempt.
@@reillyhopf6508 Well Liston feared being assassinated by the mob. Think about, in Liston's last years of life he was paranoid about getting killed himself because the mob was going to kill him for not loosing the Wepner fight and due to him increasingly wanting more authority in the mob, so when they told Sonny he was going to get axed, Sonny told his wife to leave him alone during the holidays, and Sonny put a plug of heroin in his arm, overdosed and had a heart attack.
What a guy! No Heavyweight Boxing conversation can go down without mentioning Sonny. For Ali and Tyson to have still talked about him decades later, is a testimony to his greatness. I'll say it again, 'What a guy'. 🔥🥊👊🇮🇪💚☘️
This man came from zero to become the heavyweight champion of the world. They say you can't change your past but you can change your future..which is true but in a lot of cases it just haunts you.Like in the most cases boxers come from the worst lives anyone can have and they sacrife something to become a champion.But your past still haunts you and you come back from where you have come. Sonny Liston deserves respect🥊
2 greats fighters who would have dominated unfortunately ran into Ali....Sonny and Foreman....Sonny was also unable to read properly and that was a massive disadvantage for a human.....he seemed destructive but also a sweet person....May God rest his soul.
I knew his name like most Boxing Fans but two months ago i watched a mini documentary about his Life and since then he became the Heavyweight i felt the closest to and the one i had the most empathy for ... HW Boxing never interested me that much but some of the Giants transcend their sport in one way or another and Liston was definitely one of the most interesting giants out there .... especially when you are into Tortured soul in Boxing personalities and when you can relate in some shape or form ... Boxing is filled with amazing Stories and Mostly Sad Ones ( Carlos Monzon, Jake Lamotta, Liston, Camacho are the ones who immédiately comes to my mind while i am writing this comment ) ... 💔
The whole world owes this man an apology... it's a shame he never got it.
Facts
Truly shameful how he was treated.I’m disappointed that the greats that are still around don’t do more to set things straight
@joe silva Because boxing was run by the RACIST mafia
@@KFC-Warrior He was treated like filth
@joe silva that was the same with Muhammad Ali
Sonny is one of the most underrated boxers ever. The man was unstoppable, tough as they come and a true gentleman of the sport.
Sadly he's mostly remembered for being beaten by Ali.
Have a look into his career and you'll find a new favourite of the art of boxing
Recuerdas cuando le acercó el rostro a Muhammad Ali y lo cegó por un par de rondas? Eso es un acto antideportivo y de ningún modo una acción propia de un caballero del boxeo. Mi humilde y respetuosa opinión. Saludos
@@sebastianmartinez3248 remember when Ali cut someone's head open with a cheap move...
@@malekat8539 as the younger Clay, he cut up alot of opponents that's how his hands were. As for Sonny, he got too into his whole destroyer persona. If he'd of focused on his boxing abilities he'd of been a match for Ali, anyone in the history of boxing. He made it into the 70s but his KO loss he had before the wepnar fight was devastating.
Yeah bro I feel it I respect sonny with all my heart he was a beast inside the ring and a gentleman outside the ring a true legend indeed.
That fight was fixed by the mobs bro
"Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before since."
- George Foreman
After that he got thr same treatment that liston got years later from the same downfall as liston...Muhammad Ali.
@@sorakazama7031 except Foreman still lived long enough to finally get his appreciation unlike Liston who unfortunately only gpt appreciated by boxing fans long after his death
Ali.
@@utcougar yk Liston was like 47 when he fought Ali😂😂
@@vincentpayen9559 liston at his best could knock out even ali i think
"I am sonny Liston, I am jack Dempsey, I'm cut from their cloth"- mike Tyson
@@DarkLabProductions really doesn't tho. alot of the stories about liston are made up by boxing officials in the 50s, to make him look bad. in reality the only reason liston was hated by officials was because he was in with the mafia.
“There’s no one that can stop me, my style is impeccable, my defence is impregnable, and am just curious, I want his heart, I wanna ear his children, praise be to ALLAH”
“I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it's egotistical, but I have it in me. I don't want to be a tycoon. I just want to conquer people and their souls.”
“My power is discombobulatingly devastating. I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.”
"I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures like," ………………………….."I can't...define”
- Mike Tyson
@@UnosHombreBlanco You completely f’d that up. He said his style was impetuous, not impeccable 🤦🏻♂️ And it was ‘ferocious’ not curious 🤦🏻♂️
@@Cityzen567 also eat not ear but that one was probably a typo
His story is so freaking sad man
Fr, there's a lot of sad parts but to me the most symbolic is the fact that his birthday isn't known and neither is his death date
@@MrZida88 Most sad thing was when Liston became the hw champ and prepared a speech, when he would arrive in his hometown. Sadly no one was there to greet him, he was hurt badly after that
@@godfather53 Yeah, he tried fixing his image for a while but then decided to fully embrace the bad guy character
I don't think he committed suicide.. somebody killed him man
@@elliottstevens7168 The mob did
This man life story is painful, from running away from an abusive dad. The dad was a former slave n didn’t know how to parent because he also had a horrific past of enslavement and the abuse and that came with it.
And stil sonny was great to kids gave em money and adopted a swedish child
STOP LYING. His father was never a slave. What's wrong with you??
His father was an ex slave....? In the 20t century?
The civil War was in the 1860's. How did a slave love long enough to have a child in the 1920's-1930's?
@@Brotherken1234 Tobe Liston was a sharecropper, however Sonny's grandfather was a slave under Sir Robert Liston's plantation in Louisiana, and Sonny's grandmother came from a plantation in Missouri. Tobe Liston however never had a chance to be anything else but a sharecropper because he didn't have jobs available to him because of the regulations of Jim Crow, Segregation, and living in a Dixie state with post-confederate racist politicians.
He a freaking great but his ending was just so damn sad
Beating average
fighters gets you to the BIG FIGHT THE CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE BOUT and that is where GREATNESS is had. That is where you build your legacy and Liston did noting in that category.
@@louisj.marciano2562 You have 0 knowledge about boxing and it shows. Really sad
Damn fucked up part is no one actually ever told him that. But he still had this positive message for the youth. A real strong man in every definition of the word.
I’m glad people give him recognition now, unlike during his era, his life was full of hardship but his boxing legacy will live on
This is one of the most beautiful edits I've ever seen about sonny. Fuck, this song choice is just amazing and it relates to sonny's story
What song
@@yfsworld9909 suicidal thoughts-biggie
@@m-cra1370 no the edit
@@yfsworld9909 just look up suicidal thoughts edit or remix
I believe he had a good heart and was forced to do bad things to survive. The world created this monster, he wasnt born that way. Love and respect to a great champion.
Think about it. The reason why people didn't accept him is because they never understood what he to go through. Back then he wasn't relatable to the forced and contrived image of society the press or the NAACP created to seem better than the other. Liston was probably the most honest human being in terms of sacrificing and doing what people would have to do in order to survive, he put up with the pressure and stigma of being the bad guy and his mercurial yet seemingly invincible aura resonates with a lot of diehard boxing fans.
Thee original intimidator ..”he’s the only man that ever stood up to me” ~George Foreman
One of the best heavyweights in my opinion top 5 , that’s my opinion
Judging by peak form, 1958-1960 Liston would beat almost every hw in history
Oh certainly. The man was out of this world
my top 1 heavywieght wa,muhammad ali
Sonny top 5? Wydm?
@@godfather53I feel like he’d beat everyone but a prime Ali
The real gangster of boxing . A true legend 🔥🔥🔱
One of the best jabs ever witnessed
Sonny Liston one of the best and saddest stories in boxing what a goat
He was a good man at heart you see it in his eyes
“Do your best, and be the best at it” Awesome
There was a story that Liston was in a casino one day were a big time gangster just happened to be there at the same time and Liston kept tapping him or something, the gangster warned him not to do it again or he would have him killed, a few days later Liston was found dead and was injected with a needle and he has a huge needle phobia so he wouldn't have done it himself. They said he overdosed on drugs he was Injecting into himself but why would a man with a phobia of needles do that.
Ash Reznick and Red Rodney and Co is responsible for Sonny Listons death.
That’s just a story. Sonny was their enforcer so highly unlikely
@@williamalexander6130 yes that's probably true brother I won't say your wrong because its simply a story I heard as I stated and I don't know if it's true or not but either way I guess we will never know.
In later years he was likely a drug addict. Heroin and weed was found in his home. He was known to drink, which afftected his preparation to Ali -fights (second was pretty clearly fixed anyway, Sonny was in with the Outfit. Besides, nobody knew his birth date and he was likely literally twice Ali’s age). Of course his friends and family didn’t want him to be remembered that way, especially since he was treated so badly as a champion in his life time.
It doesn’t really matter anymore. He was a great boxer and although ruthless and violent to his enemies in and outside the ring, very loving and caring man to his family and children. He was a tragic character who in his life had to withstand more pain than any man should.
@Joske Vermeulen This was 1971 in Vegas, a mob-owned town. Liston was no Robert Kennedy, they could have clipped him middle of The Strip and cops wouldn’t have investigated anyway. So why would they go through all that trouble, especially since it’s not their style anyway? His wife, who found him, waited until 3h until calling the cops. Plenty of time to to get rid of needles and spoons. I don’t really see a great conspiracy here.
Sonny needs his flowers too.
He was a beast just shows how great Ali was
ALI. NEVER. HIT. HIM....that. Fight. Was. Fixed...Oh. he. Hit. Hm..i. A. Lot. Cause. Ali. Had. Amazing. Speed. Ali. Did...BUT. NOT. WITH. a. Knockout. Punch !!
Idris alba should play sonny liston in his biopic. They look very similar!
💯🎯🎓👏👏👍👍
Damn straight. Good call. Idris would have to put on some mass though. From what I understand he prefers to keep slim.
Agreed
No one actually realised how much of a great guy Sonny actually was..
If he had a father figure in his life as well as a superb boxing trainer, God knows how far this man would’ve gone.. 💥
It's crazy that despite his intensity and how intimidating and scary he could be, he also was a sweet man whose close friends and family loved him, but he would keep his emotions hidden so well. Poor guy went home a champion and not a single person from his hometown was there to see him. Apparently you could see him go from standing straight with pride to dropping his shoulder out of sadness
I think that If the people would have recognize him he would have been unstoppable
Realising the sad story of this man’s life while listening to the beat hits different.
As time goes by I am becoming a massive Liston fan. He was the first of the modern heavyweights. A genuine big man with extreme power. His jab was phenomenal! What he did to Patterson in their fights was terrifying!
The story of him quietly being told when he gets home all his fans and writers/journalists will be there to greet him. Prompting him to write a speech and for the first time seem happy only for him to get off the train and see no one. That crushed him though he wouldn’t show it but those around him knew it. The world turned its back on him when he thought he made it.
That and now for the first time people rooted for him was when he fought Ali only to be defeated then again in the rematch where they claimed he threw the fight.
This mans life was harder than anything people could ever experience in today’s US for him to have went through it all without a single complaint speaks volumes about his character Rest In Peace to one of the all time greats that should have been far more appreciated before now
Couldn't agree with you more.... Sonny Liston was a kind giving man... The press didn't even cover the work he did for orphans in the south...he created numerous orphanages that housed over 5,000 troubled children in the South....as soon as he retired he thought of nothing but giving back, he wanted to be a school mentor in Clark county Las Vegas for troubled youths when he retired and while he was at his peak he said in an interview he wanted to start a nationwide after school exercise Initiative for kids.
There was this one story about Liston going to one child's school on a phone call... Think about it...when was the last time you ever saw a famous person be that down to earth to give a child out his phone number, the kid requests him to visit his school, and shows up a day later to give kids a day off from school to get autographs.........
He looks the definition of grown man strength
Sonny Liston was a bad man! Greatly underrated
The advice Liston gave to next generations is just precious. I'll never forget it.
SIP SONNY.. We are the Generations that follow but we LOVE AND RESPECT U WARRIOR!!!
*He was a very nice person. Hated for his size and physique. He was made into a villain .*
My favorite boxer till this day
Rest in peace sonny I am very sorry for the way the world treated you
Sonny Liston has been my idol since I was 7 years old he's a true legend
straight demon 🩸🥊
Dude was so disrespected during his time. He deserves better.
Sonny Liston he was so underrated champion.
R.I.P🕊
Liston one of my favorites
Always a cloud ☁️ of mystery surrounding the late Liston!
Him and frazier would've been a amazing fight
I love Frazier , he was war personified, but styles make fights and Sonny would be like George for Joe. Joe took jabs to get to you and Sonny had a jab like a car crash , I dont see Joe getting round it
See Frazier Foreman...... same thing. Huge puncher who starts fast, against a slow starter
sonny would do the same thing george did. probably quicker than george. sonny could put him to sleep with a single jab
@@scottg6754 I dont know if I'd call Sonny a slow starter, but he'd use the first round or two to feel his opponents out and adjust his style. George came out the gate dropping bombs. I can't say who hit harder- and not taking anything away from Big George, but Liston was the more skilled as a boxer.
Bro punching people out of the ring 😤
You can just see he reflected the pain that the world gave to him in his punches
Legit freak of nature
This man should’ve been given a chance! 😢
He was gigantic for back in those days
SAVAGE Sonny Liston🔥🔥🔥🔥🥊🥊🥊🥊
He was so powerful and overlooked
He deserved so much better
This is a simple, yet very powerful advice.
Helluva man who never got his props
Liston was great. Phenomenal jab and huge power.
He had a hell of a jab and I believe he still olds the record for biggest hands on a Heavyweight
Deeply underrated champion. Vastly misunderstood human being, Surrounded by bad people
The way he switches stances while throwing is incredible.
The most lethal knockout puncher that ever lived
Should have been “don’t EVER step in the ring with ME”.Absolute monster.Scariest fighter ever
My god you can see the size of his arms against his shirt. I’d hate like hell to get punched by him. I’m surprised anyone got up from that. May he Rest In Peace.
Largest fists in boxing had his gloves specially made. His reach was of someone about six inches taller as well so his physical attributes were perfect Marty that with his immense strength and his tough mindset and also his great boxing skill and you have a real life intimidating hard hitting knockout machine in his prime I think he could have beaten anybody.
And that young kid who came to him was George Foreman, one of the greatest champs of all time. Guess he took it to heart.
The original “Bad Guy” great fighter
This was a man that grew up a hard life and when he had enough he joined boxing and yet was ao good he became a world champion dropping floyd Patterson and few days later flying back to his home town he ever so excited he had he notes and was ready to have a crowed of thousands waiting for him it was like he was a little bitty boy again he was so excited but when the time came and when he stepped off that plane hr had to face like a man that no one was there even though if it was anyone else thay would be greeted but this man faced it got embarrassed by Muhammad Ali in the 6th round later and when he got a remach not only was it a remach it was a chance a chance to be on top of the world and hopefully be on the world but thats when the mobb came in and put a bet wich forced sonny to surrender his miracle was ruined😔 and when he surrendered at that moment it was not only a boxer but kind yet beast of a man that had step down and after that he knew he didint have chance anymore the cold stale air that had a taste of hate and bitterness and the thousands of eyes looking at him and he was laughed at and he knew that je had to put the gloves down take off the boxing shorts and and unlace the boots and had to accept that he will never be accepted as a human being and later he was found dead with a needle in his arm with a lifetime phobia of needles😞said it was the mobb some say it was suicide but was i say is that sadly he died great but died thinking he was a failure some say that he forgave us from heaven but the scary truth is that we dont know if there is one and thats the depressing story of sonny liston🙃
He was so good back in the day, remember it like it was just yesterday, damn time flies.
Damn how old are you lol?
@@jonathanyng i was born in 1999 but my soul lived through every generation since the ancient times. So I've been around in the early 18 hundreds i lived in England during the peaky blinders, i lived during napoleon time, i was alive during the nazis, i saw ali beat sonny liston . I saw it all my friend. Time isn't real, i live forever. Saw basically i have a time machine no one have access too except me.
@@ameersirhan9960 also wish I have a time machine...
He's probably the most intimidating boxer in the history of boxing
It's out if mike tyson and sonny liston for me
This man was an amazing fighter. Song is killin' me 🤣
I would think "don't get involved with the mafia" would be the best advice he could give anyone
The look in his eyes "idk anymore if it's me or them I just don't know how I feel about life" sonny was a misunderstood man people treated him wrong only because they were afraid of what he can do not that he will actually do it.
Most underrated fighter of all time.
One of my all time favourites
Sonny such a legend
Very Underrated Fighter!
Love Sonny. ❤️ One of the greatest to ever lace up a pair of gloves.
Not appreciated enough in his own time.
This was a deeply tough man. Not someone screaming around about how tough he is cause of insecurity. Situations made him like this, and I wish no one goes through what this man did. You can tell from his eyes, he had a good heart. They don't make them like this no more.
Sonny slepted dudes man.
"Sonny Liston made me look like a Boy Scout" - "Iron" Mike Tyson
Suppose we seem to forget how good he was because of Ali. Man was a f***ing monster.
I agree people dont give liston enough credit, ali was a freak of nature and because of that we seem to forget about skinny if sonny wasn't in the era of ali he would probably dominate for longer
One of the best jabs ever
Legend... 🥊
Imagine him fighting today???he'd destroy all of them.
Fun fact: The most iconic picture of Mohammed Ali where he is towering over fallen Sonny Liston is when Ali knew he purposefully threw the fight.
Ali was made and asking him to get up.
Sonny was one of GOAT in his own ways, only appreciated after his death.
Ali never believed that Liston threw the fight. He believed he sent him down with a food shot, was screaming taunts at him, and believed he stayed down because he was afraid of getting caught up in an assassination attempt.
@@reillyhopf6508 Well Liston feared being assassinated by the mob. Think about, in Liston's last years of life he was paranoid about getting killed himself because the mob was going to kill him for not loosing the Wepner fight and due to him increasingly wanting more authority in the mob, so when they told Sonny he was going to get axed, Sonny told his wife to leave him alone during the holidays, and Sonny put a plug of heroin in his arm, overdosed and had a heart attack.
What a guy! No Heavyweight Boxing conversation can go down without mentioning Sonny. For Ali and Tyson to have still talked about him decades later, is a testimony to his greatness. I'll say it again, 'What a guy'. 🔥🥊👊🇮🇪💚☘️
I'm Sonny Liston, Jack Dempsey... I'm from their cloth.
This man came from zero to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
They say you can't change your past but you can change your future..which is true but in a lot of cases it just haunts you.Like in the most cases boxers come from the worst lives anyone can have and they sacrife something to become a champion.But your past still haunts you and you come back from where you have come.
Sonny Liston deserves respect🥊
2 greats fighters who would have dominated unfortunately ran into Ali....Sonny and Foreman....Sonny was also unable to read properly and that was a massive disadvantage for a human.....he seemed destructive but also a sweet person....May God rest his soul.
One of the saddest stories, up there with rocky lockridge, Mathew saad muhammad and the quarry Brothers
Sonny was a Tragic Boxer but he was a True Boxing Legend No Matter what he did
The baddest man on the planet
Thank you "Sir Sonny Liston". 🙏
He was a true champion. A very sad end to a true great. RIP Sonny Liston .
God bless the fighting men
In my opinion sonny has to be top 10
Sonny Liston, a God amongst men
One of the great intimidators
I knew his name like most Boxing Fans but two months ago i watched a mini documentary about his Life and since then he became the Heavyweight i felt the closest to and the one i had the most empathy for ... HW Boxing never interested me that much but some of the Giants transcend their sport in one way or another and Liston was definitely one of the most interesting giants out there .... especially when you are into Tortured soul in Boxing personalities and when you can relate in some shape or form ... Boxing is filled with amazing Stories and Mostly Sad Ones ( Carlos Monzon, Jake Lamotta, Liston, Camacho are the ones who immédiately comes to my mind while i am writing this comment ) ... 💔
His death is just so sad like know people already this so many times but like dam R.i.p Sonny Liston one of the greatest boxers that fallen from grace
Legend 🕯
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