In a little more than eight years, Sonny Liston went from capturing the heavyweight title to allegedly selling heroin on Las Vegas’ Westside and dying of a presumed overdose — one that’s still believed by many to have been a murder.
Christopher Lawrence
Christopher Lawrence is the movie critic for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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