Sonny Liston built himself up to be one of the most feared heavyweight champions in boxing history. He was considered invincible. That all came to a halt when he faced a 7-to-1 underdog, a brash ...

The legendary boxer, like his father, was originally named after a fascinating figure in the history of emancipation ...

Muhammad Ali(then Cassius Clay) knocked out Sonny Liston, who nagged by a shoulder injury, threw in the towel before the ...

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On the morning of Feb. 24, 1964, I sat in my office reviewing last minute details to the Cassius Clay-Sonny Liston fight to take place later that night at the Miami Beach Convention Center, when ...

He had come in pounding the cane Malcolm X had given him for spiritual support, chanting “I am the greatest, I am the champ, he is a chump.” Ray Robinson, that picture of grace who is Clay’s ideal as ...

Fifty years ago Tuesday, Cassius Clay shocked Sonny Liston to win the heavyweight title. In the decades afterward, the man later known as Muhammad Ali would politicize sports and transform the art of ...

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