Liston, Sonny

Ali and Liston: the boy who would be king and the ugly bear

by Mee, Bob

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Three months after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, prizefighters Charles "Sonny" Liston and Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. stepped into a boxing ring in Miami to dispute the heavyweight championship of the world. LIston was a mob fighter with a criminal past, and rumors were …

Ali and Liston: the boy who would be king and the ugly bear

by Mee, Bob, (Sportswriter)

0 Type: Book

" ... Follows the contrasting paths these two men took, from their backgrounds in Arkansas and Kentucky through to that sixteen-month period in 1964 and 1965 when the story of the world heavyweight championship centered on them and all they stood for"--Publisher description.

Ali and Liston: the boy who would be king and the ugly bear

by Mee, Bob, (Sportswriter)

0 Type: Book

" ... Follows the contrasting paths these two men took, from their backgrounds in Arkansas and Kentucky through to that sixteen-month period in 1964 and 1965 when the story of the world heavyweight championship centered on them and all they stood for"--Publisher description.

While the intersection of sport and the Civil Rights era has been well documented from a number of angles and approaches, perhaps no athlete has been so thoroughly connected to this period in history as Muhammad Ali. His stances on Vietnam, race relations and religion during thi…