Before Muhammad Ali became 'The Greatest,' he had to defeat a terrifying champion: Sonny Liston. With a devastating punch and ...

All the crow in China wouldn't be enough to satisfy the appetites of the cognoscenti of the boxing world tonight as young Cassius Marcellus Clay demolished the legend of Sonny Liston with a seven ...

And much is gentle sportsfans might wish that Liston would meet the Bombera fate, there is no fistic Sandy Koufax around to strike out Sonny. Of course there is Cassius Clay. The present tense ...

I have no idea how much harm the so-called fight, between Clay and Liston has done to the ... Well this is a far cry from the sullen Sonny Lister and the clownish Cassius Clay, and the ghastly ...

Pete Peters/Chicago Sun-Times Share As published in the Chicago Daily News, sister publication of the Chicago Sun-Times: “Don’t call me Cassius ... at ex-champ Sonny Liston and Malcolm X.

He was one of the first people into the ring to congratulate Cassius Clay after he defeated Sonny Liston. 'Twistin' had been Sam Cooke's biggest UK hit of the sixties, reaching no.6 in 1962.