Charles "Sonny" Liston
Heavyweight Champion 1962 - 1964

One of the triumvirate of great heavyweight champions of the early 1960's, Sonny Liston blasted Floyd Patterson out of the throne only to be tossed out himself by a sassy young kid named Cassius Clay. Liston, an ex-convict with a cols stare that made him the bane of weigh-ins, was scary in the ring and unreadable in private life. The twists in Liston's career were influenced as much by his reputation as a bad man as by his formidable boxing skills
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