There were legitimate reasons to scrutinize him. Liston’s history included prison time for armed robbery, further arrests and ties to men with organized crime interests in boxing. Frankie Carbo and Frank “Blinky” Palermo held financial interests in his career. Reporters were justified in questioning those relationships.
The coverage frequently went beyond examining his history. It allowed that history to obscure every other part of him. Boxing offered Liston no rehabilitation story, even though prison was where he learned to box and found the skill that gave him a legal profession. His past was not presented as something he had survived. It…
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