Lance, I notice that "The Devil and Sonny Liston" is getting fairly negative customer reviews on Amazon. From Wordnik.com. [Liston vs. Ali] Reference
Liston is about to throw a punch http://img221. imageshack.us/img221/3423/001vw5. jpg. From Wordnik.com. [Liston vs. Ali] Reference
Obama is going to do to HRC what Clay did to Liston. From Wordnik.com. [Poll Suggests Hillary Winning Foreign Policy Arguments With Obama] Reference
Foreman started out as Liston, and has ended up as Ali. From Wordnik.com. [The Sweet, And Serene, Scientist] Reference
And Liston told me that this horrible night; he said that. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Anne Queen, April 30, 1976. Interview G-0049-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
But Ali is tough and knocks out Liston in the first round. From Wordnik.com. [Janet Turley: Mad Men Season 4, Ep 7 -- The Courtship of Don and Peggy] Reference
Chester (1823, for Dibdin's benefit, with Liston as Scrub). From Wordnik.com. [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference
How'd Liston throw a fight he was trying to cheat to win???. From Wordnik.com. [Liston vs. Ali] Reference
You can enjoy the chaos of the first Clay-Liston weigh-in here. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
Notice Ali bouncing around the ring after beating Sonny Liston. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: Mad Men's Surprising Yet Logical Finale: Don Draper Goes All Cali in 'Tomorrowland'] Reference
Clay, now Muhammad Ali, defends his crown against Sonny Liston. From Wordnik.com. [Lance Mannion:] Reference
Liston threw both fights, literally took a dive second time out. From Wordnik.com. [Lance Mannion:] Reference
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Liston vs. Ali. From Wordnik.com. [Liston vs. Ali] Reference
And him complaining that Liston "has to lose by unconsciousness.". From Wordnik.com. [Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Happy Birthday, Peggy!] Reference
Some of the best parts ever played by Liston, John Reeve, Charles. From Wordnik.com. [Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]] Reference
Have we not heard how Liston always thought he ought to play Hamlet?. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
Liston from making the old player the subject of a biographical work. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference
Not the way I remember the Liston, Patterson, Frazier or other fights. From Wordnik.com. [For First Time, McCain Edges Ahead Of Obama In Tracking Poll] Reference
Sonny Liston defends his heavyweight championship against Cassius Clay. From Wordnik.com. [Lance Mannion:] Reference
But come the seventh round, the bell rings, and Liston won't leave his corner. From Wordnik.com. [Lance Mannion:] Reference
We saw the whole scene a few years later when Ali defeating a lumbering Liston. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Greenspan: Recapturing the Spirit of the 1960 Convention] Reference
Those who enjoyed the biography of Liston will chuckle over the autobiography of Munden. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference
The most remarkable instance of a face being a fortune, in this respect, is our own Liston. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827] Reference
By the way, I don't know much about Liston but he sure gets a raw deal in this whole thing. From Wordnik.com. [Liston vs. Ali] Reference
Muhammad Ali, the Greatest, he really have his title handed him as a gift from Sonny Liston?. From Wordnik.com. [Lance Mannion:] Reference
Liston finally had managed to rent a big, fine house over in a rich, wall-to-wall white section. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Malcolm X]
And surely Muhammad Ali (the name he took after the Liston fight) was one of the great figures of the 20th century. From Wordnik.com. [True Believer] Reference
Presbyterian or Anabaptist, and his brief, but pungent comments on certain passages in the Liston biography, are delightful. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference
After Ali defeated Liston, Elijah installed his son Herbert as Ali's manager and, on March 6, 1964, honored Clay with a Muslim name. From Wordnik.com. [True Believer] Reference
Potier, generally speaking -- and it is the same with our own Liston -- has never Actually observed any thing of what he presents to us. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827] Reference
The young Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, won the title by surprise in 1964 from the bruising Liston, the fearsome Mike Tyson of his day. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: Mad Men : 'The Suitcase' Is Tougher Than Sonny Liston] Reference
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