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May 8th is Sonny Listons Birthday.Supposedly 1932 conflicting reports on this. Seems as though he would get a little salty if pressed on this issue.

happy birthday sonny, one of the greatest and most physically gifted heavyweights of all time

..sonny's way of responding to reporters who questioned his age was ..."my mother says that's when i was born. are you calling my mother a liar?" there were never any follow ups.

Decagon wrote:Well, he wasn't born by the time the Census was taken, in Autumn of 1930.

Or he could have used a sibling's name.

Tantum wrote:Or he could have used a sibling's name.

Sonny was just a twinkle in his daddy's eyes at the time