Sonny Liston was born as a child of a sharecropper in Arkansas. Sonny was only one of seventeen children. When Sonny went to school, he endured frequent beatings as a child. Sonny Liston Started to work early as his fathers opinion, " if he can sit at a table, he can work." When Sonny became a teenager at the age of 13 he escaped from his father in St. Louis to reunite with his mother.

Sonny Liston's fierce childhood sent him on a violent path that led to prison. This created a bad reputation, but at home, he was still very benevolent and loving.

Sonny liston appeared in many interviews and his appearance made him look mean, simply a result of bashfulness. Sonny Liston got arrested for armed robbery...