Liston, with his baleful stare and aura of menace, was seemingly invincible and universally hated. So, was his untimely death an accident? A suicide? A mob hit?

This one act play, set in the living room of his Las Vegas home over the course of his final hours, reimagines his mysterious demise.

One of the two winners of the Stables 2022 New Writing Competition

A beautiful stranger bearing a suspicious gift knocks on the door of one of boxing’s most feared former champions, and so begins this fictional depiction of Sonny Liston’s last night on this Earth.