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Through the years Sonny Liston occasionally filled in bit
roles in motion pictures, invariably portraying mean, surly
bad guys, an image he had conveyed to his opponents and the
public.
Actually, Sonny was hardly "mean and surly." He wasn't too
talkative, usually limiting his answers to curt "yeahs" and
"noes." On occasion, however, he could be a pleasant
conversationalist.
Aside from his wife, Geraldine, Sonny's main interests in
life were youth programs, his interest stemming from his own
impoverished and underprivileged childhood in Arkansas.
Sonny never learned to read, and his writing was confined to
his name. But his fists earned him nearly $4,000,000 in
paydays during his exciting, if erratic, career.
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The Ring - April 1971
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