For what it's worth. I got high watching this 🌴🪴🌴rip sunny and Rick piena
@jmreyes57
3 күн бұрын
I had this recorded on a VHS tape! Loved it when I saw it back in '94 and still love it today!
@terryhill4732
10 күн бұрын
Outcasts people in America are treated worst than slaves, the system eats them alive through chaos and misinformation and everyone wonders where the hatred and division among people come from
@gert-janboot3928
13 күн бұрын
Sonny Liston was like Jimi Hendrix , a black Man in a white Man's world and treated very very badly, by this white world , such a shame of these true talents 😞
@hi-tech-skills8127
15 күн бұрын
HBO boxing is the best
@frederickweeksjr.1189
21 күн бұрын
Most people DON'T realize the amount of trauma he experienced.
@Ken_Frazer-619
21 күн бұрын
20:35 lol as for some reason 😂😂😂😂
@meisme20
24 күн бұрын
Sonny is the best boxer to have ever touched Gods green earth. God bless you sonny.
@giuseppegumina5576
24 күн бұрын
Sonny Liston Number One. The Best ❤
@user-yf6zu6dw2u
24 күн бұрын
Sonny liston is one of the greatest champions ever the ali fights were fixed by the mafia and that is who killed him Rip
@meisme20
24 күн бұрын
Real
@johngerard3218
Ай бұрын
I don't think Liston had "the best left jab" but I think he had the hardest. I think maybe Holmes had the best.
@Luke-kg7vu
Ай бұрын
That was so nice of Floyd Patterson to console Sonny after that fight
@ebtheceleb7933
Ай бұрын
Him and Andy Warhol 😂😂😂😂❤
@josephperreault2063
Ай бұрын
I want to thank this channel for such a great champion when I was a baby I’d watch him knock out a lot of people dad and gramps loved boxing or anything to do with fighting
@Alienjujitsu
Ай бұрын
RIP CHAMP 🙏🥊
@bretthumphrey6821
Ай бұрын
I cant believe there was know investigating after his death wtf
@MotersickleBum
Ай бұрын
Sonny was probably 40+ years old when he fought Ali.
@softturd
Ай бұрын
what a sad story.. i reaally like sonny now after this. what a horrific upbringing and he fought through it....very rare im touched but i almost welled up watching this...i truly hope sonny has got his break and is in heaven now.
@ENIGIZERb
Ай бұрын
Needed a full-time PR man.
@Raughwe
Ай бұрын
My daddy was a Marine and served three tours in you-know-where. He always said that Liston was a very good man. He was obsessive about boxing. I tend to believe he knew the truth. I think ole Sonny got a terrible deal.
@jessearias2863
Ай бұрын
Hof, heavyweight title, legand 😊 RIP night train .
@nickbeef4824
2 ай бұрын
If all the great heavyweights came together in their prime to fight each other they would be looking around and ask is Sonny hear?
@tommydenato8863
2 ай бұрын
Lol all the sob stories in the comments. Keep crying that river.
@TheBatugan77
2 ай бұрын
Lick me.
@mitchcornacchia968
2 ай бұрын
Tragic figure in many ways.
@giovannimarino7449
2 ай бұрын
Great doc
@ppuh6tfrz646
7 ай бұрын
23:01 I *F__KING* love this!!
@cedricliggins7528
11 ай бұрын
Patterson/Damato avoided quite a few worthy fighters beside Liston: Zora Folley, Eddie Machen, Cleveland Williams, Nino Valdes, Doug Jones to name a few.
@haileyshannon7548
11 ай бұрын
I remember watching this on HBO with my father when I was a little girl!
@novahittingthegroundrunnin9933
Жыл бұрын
Excellent 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
@thejamnasium6447
Жыл бұрын
my favorite fighter ever
@scarfo441
Жыл бұрын
When he said Floyd was as scared as Tyson vs spinks..I knew instantly what he was talking bout..
@tripbalanceeo6321
Жыл бұрын
I feel like this is still happening to some degree. Just different fads, music and drugs with each new generation.
@royjabiv
Жыл бұрын
Sure is. That's why I keep it up here on youtube
@lukepeacham9663
Жыл бұрын
Imagine him under cus damato
@joshuahall1581
Жыл бұрын
Cus D'Amato would've hated coaching Liston. The reason why he molded Cassius Clay, Mike Tyson and Floyd Patterson is that they all had one characteristic that Sonny did not have despite Sonny having the most potential out of all of those boxers, is that Sonny grew up as a lost cause, a man destined for a life of crime, living in poverty and squalor, Sonny did what he could to survive, which due to not having a sense of right or wrong due to not being well educated, Sonny did what he wanted to, what he pleased, and what he needed to due in order to survive. Mike Tyson wasn't like that, Mike grew up poor, but Mike had structure, Mike had a family life even if it was dysfunctional unlike Liston who's family sold him and used him as a source of income as labor on a plantation to a father that sold him like a slave for money and alcohol and a mother who abandoned him at any early age. Mike was delivered to Cus D'Amato as a kid and was still capable of being molded into a idol, with Sonny and Father Stevens, it was already to late, Sonny already had grown up in the harsh criminal environments within society, growing up in ditches and in park benches With Floyd Patterson, Floyd almost slipped into the criminal aspect of society without a family structure with a mother who grew up as a cocaine addict, Cus was able to come in at the right time and turn his life around. Cassius Clay was the most advantaged in terms of his life and how he grew up, he grew up under a happy 2 parent household and a happy family with a decent amount of money. With America and the way Capitalism is ingrained into the social life of Americans, people didn't want a idol that fell into a live of crime and preserved by being a criminal like Liston, people wanted a idol that fell into a life of crime but got out of it and became a representable champion like Patterson, or a idol that would positively represent all people like Muhammad Ali. People didn't want to persevere forever, they wanted comfortability and respect. They chose and idol like Ali and Patterson because they where respectable, Liston was not and unfortunately could never attain that respect and self esteem, which lead to his early death by suicide.
@joshuahall1581
Жыл бұрын
The unfortunate legacy of Sonny Liston exposes the deep harshness of society and it's ability to break the most strongest men. A man that grew up idolizing figures that represented the pinnacle of respectability in a marginalized and discriminated against ethnic group and culture like Joe Louis and aspired to be a champion that go beyond the image that he was born with, but came down under the weight and the grueling reality that he will never prosper because of his ilk, his social status, or his class. His exposes the mirage of the ability to succeed and the ability to make a life for yourself from being poor to becoming rich in a society that heavily discriminates you.
@theculturedthug6609
Жыл бұрын
Was proababy an accidental od...
@kantovagrant3194
Жыл бұрын
We don't know, but Liston was a heroin addict by the time he faced Leotis Martin and could've at that time felt really rock bottom after he lost. Sonny Liston cried after fighting and loosing to Leotis Martin because he knew his career was almost over in which boxing was the only thing that Sonny did that ever made him feel respected in society, in which now he had to find a job. But with all that Sonny did in the ring, in which he received no little to no respect for, Sonny wasn't a proud boxer, after all of the attempts of trying to be a respected idol despite his past, despite his charity, despite his religious beliefs, despite his goal to be a good champion and a role model for young children, all that went to hell, before he was champion, got worse while he was champion, and got even worse after he lost the title. In which if Liston had lived had he not died, he probably would've tried to settle down out of the limelight completely, with a humble job. After 1970, the only town that would accept someone like Sonny Liston would be Las Vegas, in which after a while if Liston probably would've moved out of there in which guys like Resnick and other mob affiliates would have no use for him and probably would just let him retire.
@theculturedthug6609
Жыл бұрын
He looks sad in everything.
@kantovagrant3194
Жыл бұрын
He barely had a shot at life, of course he's sad! He was whipped as a mule like a slave pulling hey carts in which his father didn't even care enough about his existence to even put him in school past the first grade! He watched his brothers die by being whipped to death by his own father for money in which he used for alcohol, in which his mother ran away sighting the abuse she had from Sonny's father Tobe abandoning Sonny on the plantation when he was 8 to be abused by his father for 5 years until he worked up the courage to run away on a 100 mile trek to St. Louis from Arkansas. Then after Sonny was abandoned a second time by his mother dropping out of school in the first grade. Since he couldn't even read at a sufficient level he couldn't even get basic jobs that they where offering to Negros back in the day for scraps. Then he was locked up in prison after resorting to robbing an stealing to survive. Then when he finally found his calling in prison to be a boxer, he made good income and was finally respected by people, he lost to Ali and was now known worldwide for being the "bum that lost to Ali" Despite Liston beating guys like Foreman, Leotis Martin and Amos Lincoln all at the same time in a 3 on 1 match without even breaking a sweat.
@shonclemons6149
Жыл бұрын
Peoole call him a bad guy but i feel different. U think he was a good man who experienced too many bad things
@clevelandwilliams5922
Жыл бұрын
Sonny Liston never lost to Ali. He gave up the title. His lack of training weakened Sonny Liston & made him realise his lack of conditioning was crucial to the 1st loss.
@joshuahall1581
Жыл бұрын
He was too overconfident in his ability to win in the first fight, and he lost, then in the second fight upon the realization that he can lose he decided to through the match and lose early.
@clevelandwilliams5922
Жыл бұрын
@@joshuahall1581 that could be true, he lost to Marshall early in his career and rebuilt from there. So loosing to Ali should’ve never intimidated him. However, it may have been the case, but I differ based on his previous ring achievements.
@joshuahall1581
Жыл бұрын
@@clevelandwilliams5922 But the fight with Marshall, nobody expected that much out of him. Marshall was Sonny's wake up call and lit a fire under him to win and make something out of himself. With Cassius, Sonny achieved the mountain top, and Sonny did not want to let go of living on it, when Clay beat him, it destroyed Sonny, regardless of it destroying his confidence of making a better life for himself or Sonny's public image that he tried to make for himself.
@clevelandwilliams5922
Жыл бұрын
@@joshuahall1581 like I said your summation maybe correct. You cannot handle Williams power bombs and walk through them without flinching and then win.
@nyterpfan
Ай бұрын
I think (and the documentary bears this out) Sonny believed prior to the first fight with Ali that all he would have to do is give him that death stare and that would be it. Ali would literally faint out of fear. He had no idea how fast and sharp Ali was and wasn't properly trained and conditioned. Consequently, Ali soundly beat him and would have ultimately KO'd Liston if he hadn't quit after the 6th round.
@itsgleneaton4883
Жыл бұрын
Him quitting after the sixth round is similar to Duran quitting with Leonard. They were feared by everyone and had a streak of success and then they both quit close to the same round. And to this day nobody knows for sure why they quit.
@brt-jn7kg
Жыл бұрын
How come every time they make a movie or a show about a black man there has to be one or two people of his own race that has to blame everything on the fact that he was black and the rest of the world's White? Sonny Liston was the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and one of the greatest to ever box. That doesn't have a damn thing to do with about his race it was because he was the best. The end
@keithharrison9797
Жыл бұрын
Reached from the mud to the sky, but when he got there the public couldn't handle it. Sonny Liston, boxing super legend.
@joshuahall1581
Жыл бұрын
You summed it up perfectly. When Ali came along he gave the public the champion they deserved by taking a dive. A strong defiant black man who didn't care about there opinion rather than a man who spent his life attaining acceptance he would never attain.
@keithharrison9797
Жыл бұрын
But why could not Sonny Liston be that champion??? His superb punching power proved his point of Greatest championship abilities
@keithharrison9797
Жыл бұрын
Also the public hated him, the Greatest people in the world are the ones who are most hated by the world. Black folks are hated by the world, cause we were chosen over all the world
@joshuahall1581
Жыл бұрын
@@keithharrison9797 Well that's simple. Sonny wanted admiration. He wanted to be an inspiration to people like his idol Joe Louis did for him, and when he didn't get that same admiration back, the mob decided that due to Sonny ruining the popularity of boxing with his track record if he continues to win, the mob can no longer profit from boxing as a whole in which Sonny Liston wasn't the mobs only skin in the game, literally nearly every middleweight and welterweight boxer was controlled via the mob from the 20s all the way to the 1980s in which the government started doing a major crackdown on the sport once figures like Frankie Carbo, legendary prohibition mob gunman and legendary manager of fighters like Sugar Ray Robinson, Kid Gavalin, etc... etc... but for the mass majority of people didn't like Sonny due to newspaper articles and viewed him as a criminal.
@keithharrison9797
Жыл бұрын
@@joshuahall1581 Well obviously the mob thought he could beat Ali since Liston was threatened with the kidnap of his wife and child. Lose the fight or you'll never see them again he was told.
@ninclarke1357
Жыл бұрын
No one can hurt you now!!! Rest in peace Champ ❤️
@junheceta268
Жыл бұрын
Sonny Liston and Jack Johnson before him had much in common: tremendously skilled and lethal fighters, they were also individualists determined to live life on their terms, were hated for daring to do so, and who were shamefully treated not only by whites but by their own race. Little wonder they lived the rest of their lives essentially defiantly roaring "Screw you!" to the whole world.
@JohnDoe-fp7ob
Жыл бұрын
Cus D'Amato now there's a man who should have been boxing professionally hell man him sparring with Muhammad Ali, Ali was in his prime and Cus was 67 years old and he died every punch and landed solid ones in the video at 67 and that wasn't just anybody it was against Ali so you know even if he was old man he still take those guys down I never why didn't he ever get into boxing professionally instead of just training that is
@DeadLifts4Dayz
2 жыл бұрын
Start from 6:43
@DeadLifts4Dayz
2 жыл бұрын
6:43
@floridanative7105
2 жыл бұрын
Much Respect for Sonny, Poor Dude Was Used & Abused From Cradle to Grave..I Believe his Headstone Says it all " A MAN " Thats a Very Humble statement in my way of thinkin...RIP Night Train CHAMP !!
@Mattyouyous
2 жыл бұрын
Andy Warhol.. what a nutter ‘ey?
@jakevendrotti1496
2 жыл бұрын
How's that? "He brought an aura of destruction into the gym...he had to leave three cities because he was hounded by the police." Huh. Classic white supremacy.
@charliethehitmanchimp3568
2 жыл бұрын
Was the last bit where it says that this film was presented as a public service announcement by Pepsi a joke?
@adamhicks8754
2 жыл бұрын
What a great man Floyd Patterson must have been to console and comfort Sonny Liston the way he did after sonny's loss to Ali , what a true champion!
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