FBI suspected that Ali's KO of Liston was fixed

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I'm more interested as to whether Listons death was a cover up. He was found dead in his home of a "heroin overdose", with no apparent history of using the drug, no paraphernalia present and apparently the man had a serious fear of needles.

Liston's cause of death was officially listed as natural causes believe it or not. There was no needle found but heroin was found in his system. He also had track marks even though his wife swore he had a needle paranoia. It was actually the fact that no needle was found that started the forced hotshotted rumors. He'd been dead for at least a week when he was found.

Its widely accepted that Joe Louis was a heroin user but hated the idea of having to go out and get it so Sonny would go get it for him. After the Ali fight Liston fled to Sweden for several fights because of the backlash. His last fight was against Wepner who he destroyed prior to Chuck getting his shot at Ali. Sonny made a measly 13 grand. Its thought that he may have been dealing a little on the side and dipping into some of the profits provided by Louis and others in their circle.

Just a few tidbits brother.

Cool, definitely didn't know any of that. Either way, Liston had some very bad people around him throughout his career, hell of a story I'm sure.