A FASCINATING new documentary from HBO Sports reminds us that reality is rarely as simple as it seems. “Sonny Liston: The Mysterious Life and Death of a Champion,” premiering tonight at 8 on the ...

Two pop-culture figures on the crowded and gaudy album cover of the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” have often and again become grist for offbeat biographies. Such were the mysteries ...

Ving Rhames will topline and exec produce “Night Train,” a long-in-development Sonny Liston biopic with James Woods, Alfre Woodard and Kristanna Loken also expected to star. Project, picked up by ...

Sonny Liston became world heavyweight champion in 1962 and fought Muhammad Ali twice In January 1971, former heavyweight champion of the world Sonny Liston was found dead at his Las Vegas home. A ...

Nick Tosches knows that the seamy side of American life doesn't always play itself out in the corners and the shadows; sometimes it takes the spotlight. He's illustrated this fact in biographies of ...

On June 29, 1970, Sonny Liston squared off against Chuck Wepner in a heavyweight fight. Liston came into the fight with a 49-4 record but was coming off of a loss in his last bout. Before Wepner ...

Jersey Joe Walcott gave me his autograph before stepping into the ring to referee the match.’ ...

Apr. 23 - Nick Tosches has long harbored a serious jones for underbellies and underdogs. In his journalism, his crime novels and his biographies of Dean Martin and Jerry Lee Lewis, the New York author ...