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Pariah: The Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston
Overcoming the seemingly insurmountable odds that life threw his way, Liston became heavyweight champion of the world when he knocked out Floyd Patterson in 1962. Eight years later, he died but friends questioned the cause of his death.















May 8, 1932 in St. Francis County, Arkansas, USA

December 12, 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA




June 30, 1933 in Griffin, Georgia, USA




20 April 1955, Los Angeles, California, USA


30 June 1966, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

16 January 1938, New York City, New York, USA


4 January 1935, Waco, North Carolina, USA



1968 in Wolfenbüttel, Germany


7 May 1967, South Africa





August 5, 1931 in Hamburg, Germany