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"And the rumor was born that the mob forced Liston to throw the fight. By the late 60s, Liston was retired from boxing. He was married and living in Las Vegas. But he had a very bad gambling habit and heavy debt. On January 5, 1971, his wife, who had been away, came home to find him dead in bed. The coroner ruled heart failure as the official cause of death."