Seventy years ago this week (April 21, 1955), future heavyweight king Sonny Liston avenged his first ... who was a man who needed multiple sparring partners so as to get a sufficient workout ...

The official result was that Sonny Liston retired from the contest and surrendered his ... but his kidneys are in such bad shape that he suffers agony even after sparring bouts. ‘After all, he’s been ...

Kai Parham plays Ali’s brother and fellow boxer Rudy. Amin Joseph will play Sonny Liston, Ali’s rival and the heavyweight champion. In a recurring role, Michael Ealy will (finally) play Malcolm X.

Cassius Clay’s phantom punch of Sonny Liston and the 1985 NBA Draft’s “frozen envelope.” Yet enough of them have turned out to be true—such as the tale of Wade Boggs drinking 70 beers on ...

And the fact is that Ali not only won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1960, but he managed to beat greats like Sonny Liston. And the word "resilience" was in his dictionary: even when he ...

Snowfall star Amin Joseph will play Sonny Liston, Ali’s rival and the heavyweight champion. Liston had been considered unbeatable until he lost the title in 1964 to loud-mouthed underdog ...

“Song for Sonny Liston” is a bluesy track that tells the life story of heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston, portraying his struggles and tragic downfall. Mark Knopfler’s deep ...

but even he knows that Ali and his fist, hit harder. Fights and victories against boxers like Sonny Liston or George Foreman put him at the top.

Sixty years ago this year, a glib boxer named Cassius Clay came to Lewiston to defend his world heavyweight crown against ...

and Odessa Clay. Amin Joseph will play rival Sonny Liston, the fighter once thought unbeatable before Ali famously took his title in 1964. “This is an awe-inspiring story of one of the most ...

They'd been conned! Photographer Harry Benson had told them he would set up a picture with the heavyweight champion of the world, Sonny Liston. But instead he had dumped them in the training camp ...

Written with New York Times bestselling author Shaun Assael ("The Murder of Sonny Liston"; as well as "Sex, Lies and Headlocks,") "Dig Me A Grave" is also being slated as a thoughtful ...