Sentence examples for second sonny from inspiring English sources

The following year Clay went global with the dethroning of a second Sonny, the great bear Liston.

He then performed in the South with the second Sonny Boy Williamson (Alex Rice Millerer) before becoming a mainstay of Chicago blues in the 1950s.

Just before the second Sonny Liston v Floyd Patterson fight in 1963, Clay followed Liston to Vegas and, after watching him lose at craps, shouted to him: "Look at that big ugly bear, he can't do anything right".

In 1950, after buying out the Arons, they changed the name of their company to Chess and attracted an unparalleled roster of blues artists who had come to the city from the Mississippi Delta, including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, the second Sonny Boy Williamson (Alex [ Rice"] Miller), Little Walter, and Bo Diddley.

At first, Sonny's mother had misgivings about the relationship; she and her husband had fled Mississippi after Emmett Till was killed for flirting with a white woman.

As it follows, for roughly the first hour, Ali from the first Sonny Liston fight in 1964 through the duel with George Foreman in Zaire in 1974, the picture has a quick-moving breathlessness.

As it follows Muhammad Ali Will Smithh, left) from the first Sonny Liston fight in 1964 through the bout with George Foreman in Zaire in 1974, the first hour of Michael Mann's film has a quick-moving breathlessness.

Snatches of interviews -- many of them collected 21 years ago in "Pieces and Pontifications" -- are blended with extracts from classic Mailer texts like his bravura report on the first Sonny Liston-Floyd Patterson heavyweight bout, "Ten Thousand Words a Minute".

Gene Tunney, a champion of the 1920s, declared the first Sonny Liston-Cassius Clay fight "the end of professional boxing" such was the resistance to Clay (later Ali) and his bragging.

He selected his repertoire from senior bluesmen, including harmonica players Junior Parker and the first Sonny Boy (John Lee Williamsonn, who had influenced him; both his singing and playing were uniquely dramatic and intense and punctuated with shouts, sexual moans, and humorous asides.

The movie covers ten years in Ali's life, beginning with the first Sonny Liston fight, in 1964, when Ali took the heavyweight championship at the age of twenty-two, and ending with the near-mythological "Rumble in the Jungle," in Zaire, in 1974, when he won the title back (from George Foreman) after being stripped of it for refusing to be inducted into the Army during the Vietnam War.