SPORTS

Sonny Liston was a Taurus. Do you know what that means? It means he’s in there with a very select crowd of Taureans, including Plato, Kant, Charlie Parker and David Roter. But of all of them Sonny’s the only one who showed his hand so early in the game that THEY JUST WOULDN’T LEAVE HIM ALONE. Plato even stole all the

mustard from that other famous loser-from-the beginning by the name of Socrates. Note, it was Sonny who did it earliest, from even earlier than Muhammad Ali. Y’know of,.course Ali and Sonny were the same fighter. Or at least two aspects of the same thing, y’know cause both of them got pushed around in the same sort of way. Except with Sonny it was they said he had gangsters in on his action so New York State didn’t want him around. I mean who didn’t have gangsters, I mean if some did everybody did, I mean what’s the difference between Blinky Palermo and Gil Clancy? I mean even if. And who even says it was if. I mean why didn’t those assholes leave Sonny alone, I mean couldn’t they appreciate, just sit back and enjoy the way he was knocking out Wayne Bethea in 69 seconds? Or Nino Valdes who used to be a pret-ty big star and Sonny knocked him out in three. He got Zorra Folley too and at the time even Ring Magazine didn’t wanna recognize Sonny as number one contender until he beat Folley. And the only reason Folley was number one at the time was his decision over Eddie Machen! I mean did you ever see when Sonny fought Machen? Machen just couldn’t do anything but back up scared shit for 12 rounds and Sonny kept hitting him in the balls because he was really lunging after a while and Machen was always backing up so he fell short.