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 ...

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 ...

A lot of people think so, including boxing insiders. Many others don't believe it. Some think Liston may have thrown the second fight in Lewiston, Maine, but not the first one. In any case, ...

Julius Caesar, Act IV, Scene 3 But there was. In Miami Beach last week, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. acted out a scene that was ...

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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 ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 25, 1964, a 22-year-old Muhammad Ali, then Cassius Clay, became world heavyweight boxing champion for the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...