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Robert Townsend directed a 2008 film about Liston entitled Phantom Punch. Ving Rhames starred as Liston, and Andrew Hinkson portrayed Ali. A wax model of Liston appears in the front row of the iconic sleeve cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. He is seen in the far left part of the row, wearing a white and gold robe ...
Phantom Punch may refer to: The punch that ended the second fight of Muhammad Ali versus Sonny Liston; Neil Lefner's iconic sports photograph of Ali taunting the stricken Liston to "get up and fight" Phantom Punch, a 2008 Sonny Liston biopic starring Ving Rhames; Phantom Punch, the fourth album by Sondre Lerche
Phantom Punch is a 2008 film directed by Robert Townsend. The film is a biopic of Sonny Liston , with Ving Rhames in the lead role. [ 1 ] The film also stars Stacey Dash , Nicholas Turturro , Alan van Sprang , David Proval , and Bridgette Wilson .
The fight was controversial. Midway through the first round, Liston was knocked down by a difficult-to-see blow the press dubbed a "phantom punch". Referee Jersey Joe Walcott did not begin the count immediately after the knockdown, as Ali refused to retreat to a neutral corner. Liston rose after he had been down for about 20 seconds, and the ...
Did Ali actually land the famous knockout punch on Liston? Did the NBA really use a frozen envelope to send Ewing to the Knicks? On this Friday edition of Boxed In, our own Matt Harmon delegates a ...
Charles L. "Sonny" Liston (c. 1930 – December 30, 1970), nicknamed "The Big Bear", [4] was an American professional boxer who competed from 1953 to 1970. A dominant contender of his era, he became the undisputed world heavyweight champion in 1962 after knocking out Floyd Patterson in the first round, repeating the knockout the following year in defense of the title; in the latter fight he ...
Boxing history. On the morning of Feb. 24, 1964, I sat in my office reviewing last minute details to the Cassius Clay-Sonny Liston fight to take place later that night at the Miami Beach ...
Boxing on ABC refers to a series of boxing events [1] that have been televised on the American Broadcasting Company.Many of these events aired under the Wide World of Sports [2] banner which began on April 11, 1964 when challenger Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, defeated champion Sonny Liston in the seventh round.