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...Resnick, described as "athletic director" of a Las Vegas hotel, who was in Sonny's corner on the night he lost the title. And Pep Barone, a Palermo factotum, who was a ubiquitous visitor at Liston's training camp. ("Sonny thinks Pep is good luck," explained Nilon. "He's very superstitious.") The tenderness of the hearings reached a high point with the testimony of paradoxical Edward Lassman, a member of the Miami Beach Boxing Commission, which gave its official blessing to the title fight. Now, in his other capacity as president of the World Boxing Association, Lassman...
...Liston sat sullenly in his corner as doctors and trainers hovered over him. For a moment it was not clear what had happened. Then, suddenly, Cassius leaped into the air, arms raised, screaming like a madman, "I won, I won, I won, I am the greatest, greatest, greatest." Jack Nilon, Liston's manager, had stopped the fight. Nilon later explained that the injury to Liston's left shoulder in the first round had become progressively worse with each round until, in the sixth, Sonny could not even raise his left arm. "There was nothing to do but stop the fight...
...Jack Nilon, front man for Heavyweight Champion Sonny Listen, pushed his way through the swarm of admirers. "I'm ready for Liston," Clay told him, "but only if the price is right. I'll draw the crowd-not him." Nilon nodded. "I've come 3,500 miles to get you," he said. "The price will be right...
...visitors' dressing room deep beneath the stands at Chicago's Comiskey Park, Charles Sonny Liston, 28, sat swaddled in towels and a white terry-cloth bathrobe. He stared at the green cinder-block walls for a moment, then turned his baleful, red-flecked brown eyes on Jack Nilon, his "investment adviser." "It's cold outside," grunted Sonny. "I'm gonna make it quick...