The first fight saw Cassius Clay showcase his superior speed and movement, as he slipped and countered Liston in the early rounds. His combination punching was eye-catching. Liston settled down in the ...

60 years ago, on a chilly February night in Miami Beach, the world bore witness to one of the most iconic moments in boxing history. It was a matchup of menacing champ and loud-mouthed former Olympic ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — It’s the rarest news film known to exist of the tall skinny kid, aged 15, known at the time as Cassius Clay. WHAS-TV news archives show him weighing in for a Louisville youth boxing ...

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Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston face off in a WBA/WBC World Heavyweight fight in this Miami Herald archive photo By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - Fifty years ago, an upstart American ...

A shortsighted sportswriter a few months back dared to ink the late New York Yankees with Sonny Liston in some absurd metaphor about twin colossuses astride the narrow world of sports. What with the ...

Twenty-five years ago today, 4,200 people in a Lewiston, Me., high school hockey rink saw either boxing’s most shameful charade or, depending on where they were sitting, a tired, old heavyweight ...