What Really Happened To Boxing champion Sonny Liston?

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  • Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
  • The DEA targeted heavyweight champion Sonny Liston for selling Coke in Las Vegas before he popped up "un-alive"

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  • @jwvideos7011
    @jwvideos7011 4 месяца назад +36

    these are the kind of stories that drew me into your channel many years ago

  • @jonesb02
    @jonesb02 4 месяца назад +28

    Sonny Liston needs an HBO series. His story is wild

    • @alprofit
      @alprofit  4 месяца назад +6

      I agree, my Gee

    • @freestateofgrizzy1937
      @freestateofgrizzy1937 4 месяца назад +2

      It is wild and he does need one

    • @fishingbob8374
      @fishingbob8374 4 месяца назад +2

      @@alprofit Hey Al. Love the work. Any chance you could do a story on the OJ/Fargo connection? OJs buddy was running a non violent coke ring for close to 20 years. I think it was 20 years. That's about when he opened his first bar.

    • @Therealjames-b5o
      @Therealjames-b5o 3 месяца назад

      It truly is many layers to Sonny Liston!!!😳👍🏿

  • @Pleasemison
    @Pleasemison 4 месяца назад +8

    That damn powder got AL on a roll now!!

  • @jasontaylor2237
    @jasontaylor2237 4 месяца назад +10

    Big Al your work is appreciated bro 💯💯 keep it up

    • @alprofit
      @alprofit  4 месяца назад +1

      Thank you, sir!🫡

  • @mrbdx
    @mrbdx 4 месяца назад +9

    You gotta remember that in the early days of The NOI a large portion of the FOI were recruited while in prison. You didn’t have a lot of Doctors and Lawyers in the NOI back then. It was a lot of former street dudes. Reformed thugs.
    They weren’t afraid of the Italian Mafia in the least.
    Ali was like thee only big name boxer not controlled by the Mob.

  • @ChristopherPettersson
    @ChristopherPettersson 4 месяца назад +3

    Big Al this would make an awesome documentary

  • @Frank-sr1dz
    @Frank-sr1dz 3 месяца назад +4

    Good evening out once again good video thanks. 💯💯🎙️🎙️🎬🎥🐯🦁✌️

    • @alprofit
      @alprofit  3 месяца назад +1

      Youre welcome

    • @Frank-sr1dz
      @Frank-sr1dz 3 месяца назад +1

      @@alprofit I'm a Michigan resident Higgins elementary Wilson Junior high School and then move to the suburbs graduated from Edsel Ford high School in 1978. Join the military . Vernor highway . ✌️

  • @markmiller5558
    @markmiller5558 4 месяца назад +7

    "The Murder of Sonny Liston" by Shaun Assael is an amazing book. Sonny was into all kinds of stuff

    • @iamlmmays
      @iamlmmays 4 месяца назад +1

      Yeah, that was a good book. Sad though.

    • @johnmilonas9143
      @johnmilonas9143 4 месяца назад

      Christmas 1964: " another day, another pain-in-the-ass two-bit motherfucking cop " ~ Sonny Liston

  • @todderickson1062
    @todderickson1062 4 месяца назад +3

    Another great video! Thanks for doing what you do!💯

  • @7Moonbeam6
    @7Moonbeam6 4 месяца назад +8

    Sonny Liston was built like a cement truck 👊🏻.

  • @johnmilonas9143
    @johnmilonas9143 4 месяца назад +15

    Suggested read Nick Tosche's The Devil And Sonny Liston. Thank you AMERICANDOPE.

    • @ChristopherPettersson
      @ChristopherPettersson 4 месяца назад +2

      Great read I’m not a big reader but got it at the airport to read on the plane and couldn’t put it down. It would make a quality movie or even better a series

  • @brianvesta
    @brianvesta 4 месяца назад +9

    One thing to remember is Sunny Liston was not in his prime when he got beat by Ali....He was alot older than what has been documented...

    • @tariqhinson3054
      @tariqhinson3054 4 месяца назад +4

      The mafia & boxing 😂was always first cousin's...sonny was told to take that lost

    • @ChristopherPettersson
      @ChristopherPettersson 4 месяца назад +1

      Yeah I don’t think he even knew hi proper age. Obvs to a certain degree. Different times

  • @killakopter5193
    @killakopter5193 3 месяца назад +2

    Is dis DeA agent still alive? I would love to see a second or third interview with him...he gots them stories!!

  • @stevenjohnson4717
    @stevenjohnson4717 4 месяца назад +4

    Al i see you moving around in them streets keep em coming

    • @alprofit
      @alprofit  4 месяца назад +2

      Im everywhere, theyre...you know the rest

    • @chaddevine565
      @chaddevine565 4 месяца назад +1

      Re releases...but al does do good work....oh and by the way.. " their never there"

  • @jerryspearman3521
    @jerryspearman3521 4 месяца назад +1

    Al I always enjoy your content regarding to the real street legends ✌🏿🎥💯

    • @alprofit
      @alprofit  4 месяца назад +1

      I appreciate that

  • @codycardin
    @codycardin 4 месяца назад +2

    A story you might want to look into is professional wrestling's Jerry "the King" Lawler's kid Brian Christopher(aka Brian Lawler) who died while being held in Hardeman county jail under very mysterious circumstances. The story is too long to explain here, but going just from memory Brian Christopher had a habit, gets popped for driving under the influence, he was no stranger to county jail, had a personal beef with some c.o.'s, they set up a fight to teach him a lesson, Christopher got the better of fight, further infuriating officers and then he is found hanging in his cell and as i recall, he wasnt facing serious time where a person might decide to "opt out". The whole thing doesn't seem to add up. And some of them Southern county jails are run like little fiefdoms. I know Jerry Lawler filed a lawsuit against Hardeman county and the sheriff of Hardeman county.

  • @paulchakola7372
    @paulchakola7372 4 месяца назад +3

    John Sutton ALSO needs a documentary, fascinating to get the perspective of an African American in law enforcement (especially at the Federal level) and what that must have been like.

    • @alprofit
      @alprofit  4 месяца назад +2

      He is the real Shaft! His life and times would be an amazing series

    • @paulchakola7372
      @paulchakola7372 4 месяца назад

      @@alprofit Facts! Great work on these docs, Al!

  • @HisLadiiJae
    @HisLadiiJae 3 месяца назад +1

    They really left him stinkin'😔I would put my money on the Mafia and his lady definitely was complicit in it. She just happened to go on a trip, only returning back once the deed was done.

  • @Chasingtails24
    @Chasingtails24 4 месяца назад +1

    Ali would never let someone take a fall for him ever , he stood ten toes down, Ali was the greatest , but non the less I been rocking with you for years now

  • @bnwo
    @bnwo 4 месяца назад +6

    Speaking of boxers, you weren't kidding about guys in LA on steroids. I just saw a picture of Oscar De LaHoya. Who is he trying to impress?

    • @alprofit
      @alprofit  4 месяца назад +5

      His new boyfriend!

    • @jasonmoses7785
      @jasonmoses7785 4 месяца назад

      No he def bought abs

    • @kendi1417
      @kendi1417 4 месяца назад

      @@jasonmoses7785 No he didn't.

    • @jasonmoses7785
      @jasonmoses7785 4 месяца назад

      @@kendi1417 ok whatever you say

  • @bostic3
    @bostic3 4 месяца назад +6

    Italians didn't want any problem's with noi

    • @JeremySparks-um2iq
      @JeremySparks-um2iq 4 месяца назад

      Don’t buy into that Godfather of Harlem stuff it’s Hollywood. I don’t think it quite went the way they portrayed it

    • @daleestep9518
      @daleestep9518 4 месяца назад +1

      Noi didn't want any problems with the ANP

    • @bladtv6363
      @bladtv6363 4 месяца назад +2

      Facts them Italians overrated by Hollywood

    • @Chronicheaven
      @Chronicheaven 4 месяца назад

      So they overrated themselves cause the mobs owned Hollywood for 100+ years 😂??

    • @terryt2728
      @terryt2728 4 месяца назад

      You watch too much Hollywood.

  • @josephphoenix1376
    @josephphoenix1376 4 месяца назад +1

    Liston was supposedly told by the Mob to lose to Ali for Gambling Purposes! 🤔😡

  • @Jeremy-in2px
    @Jeremy-in2px 4 месяца назад

    Heavy...like Scatter in SuperFly...or the more recent tragic loss of Pimp C...

  • @jasonuptdc4560
    @jasonuptdc4560 4 месяца назад

    We had boxing matches called smokers at Nottaway prison in Virginia in 2004. We also had basketball matches against out of state inmates from Connecticut that guards used to bet on at Wallens ridge super max in 2003.. we had slippers on and they had js on

    • @jasonuptdc4560
      @jasonuptdc4560 4 месяца назад

      Ironic it's called Nottaway.. like not a way u getting out.. it's a max

    • @jasonuptdc4560
      @jasonuptdc4560 4 месяца назад

      And we destroyed Connecticut.. I ran point, they cctved the games to the cells cause we had cable in the cells

  • @mackzed88
    @mackzed88 4 месяца назад

    Speaking of the mob pushing "H" onto the black community, did you ever see that "60 Minutes documentary from back in the late 70's early 80's about corruption in the Chicago PD part of which showed two CPD uniformed officers dealing "H" out of their marked patrol car parked in a lot right on 47th street on the South Side, in fact that lot was right around 47th and Indiana if I recall rightly.

  • @elim5353
    @elim5353 4 месяца назад +3

    Liston was a bad dude

  • @mrg4358
    @mrg4358 4 месяца назад +2

    It was a rigged fight. Period. Besides that, he was more powerful than Ali, tho Ali was great, too. The speculation makes for good entertainment, but we'll NEVER know the real truth...🤷🏿‍♂️

  • @draydavis07
    @draydavis07 3 месяца назад

    He might could say that about the 2nd fight BUT ALI BEAT HIS ASS THAT 1ST FIGHT SO THIS DUDE FOOLISH!!!!!

  • @abdulfatahsalah1193
    @abdulfatahsalah1193 4 месяца назад

    Sonny worked for me and Tony for years

  • @rda6029
    @rda6029 4 месяца назад +10

    Not only did Ali clearly beat Liston in their 1st fight but Listen also CHEATED in that fight when his cornerman temporarily blinded Ali in the middle rounds by putting some substance on Liston's gloves!
    As for their 2nd fight that KO punch clearly landed on Liston's face and dropped him!

    • @aaj7020
      @aaj7020 4 месяца назад +3

      thank you for stating those facts

    • @BearJ7c
      @BearJ7c 3 месяца назад

      HE DIDN'T CHEAT EVEN ANGELO DUNDE SAID IT LATER
      FBI ALSO THOUGH THE 1ST FIGHT WAS FIXED LOOOK HOW LISTON WAS PULLING HIS PUNCHES

  • @MrOzell1
    @MrOzell1 4 месяца назад

    This dude look and talk like the police. I don’t see how nobody can fall for him undercover

  • @bostic3
    @bostic3 4 месяца назад +9

    He definitely was murdered

  • @stevenjohnson4717
    @stevenjohnson4717 4 месяца назад +1

    AMERICAN 🌎 DOPE 💊 SONNY LISTON

  • @WOLF99556
    @WOLF99556 4 месяца назад

    Keep up the great work Sir 💯💯💯

  • @calvincathey5027
    @calvincathey5027 4 месяца назад

    It kind of makes no sense that Sonny Liston had the mobs backing, but the Nation of Islam pressured him to take a dive in the Ali fight? That makes no damn sense, the mob backing down to the Nation of Islam? Is it possible?

    • @alprofit
      @alprofit  4 месяца назад +6

      Of course its possible! The Mafia are jist violent dummies with some organization. Dont give them too much credit

  • @tdoggsmackem7498
    @tdoggsmackem7498 4 месяца назад

    Floyd Patterson was too small

  • @manueljimenez2382
    @manueljimenez2382 4 месяца назад

    You should do a piece on the homie DC out of Detroit..Kronk gym indictments my man DC one of thee most solid MFs ever been in the USP

    • @smokestack763
      @smokestack763 4 месяца назад +1

      Whats his real name?

    • @manueljimenez2382
      @manueljimenez2382 4 месяца назад +1

      @@smokestack763 Daryl Chambers..’DC’

    • @manueljimenez2382
      @manueljimenez2382 4 месяца назад +1

      @@smokestack763 He has since passed away..My man DC Will always be respected by the greats..

    • @smokestack763
      @smokestack763 4 месяца назад +1

      @@manueljimenez2382 thanks!!!!

  • @bostic3
    @bostic3 4 месяца назад

    Sonny didn't take falls for Italians?

  • @jasonwashington3003
    @jasonwashington3003 3 месяца назад

    took a fall for Ali?!!!! Tf
    Cut it out
    So did george Forman take a fall?
    Smokin joe take a fall?

  • @JeffreyPalma-y2b
    @JeffreyPalma-y2b 4 месяца назад +1

    Missouri is not the south 😂

  • @Mattias-cp3dm
    @Mattias-cp3dm 4 месяца назад

    Didnt sonny die in 1970?

  • @antontate672
    @antontate672 4 месяца назад +1

    The first fight Sonny quit in his corner and the second fight was the phantom punch fight

    • @Chronicheaven
      @Chronicheaven 4 месяца назад

      Exactly this dude is trippin and spreading crazy false info

  • @garvey2510
    @garvey2510 4 месяца назад +1

    Cap

  • @basilchips7436
    @basilchips7436 4 месяца назад +1

    Lying