On February 25, 1964, after seven rounds, Cassius Clay prevailed over Sonny Liston, the reigning world champion. Focus on Sport / Getty Images "From Cassius Clay," he wrote on one of his training ...

And yet, depite all the blasts it has received, tonight's heavyweight title fight between Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston should be one of the most interesting and dramatic sports events in many years.

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 ...

Sonny Liston. But instead he had dumped them in the training camp of Liston's next victim, Cassius Clay, who John Lennon called "that big mouth who's going to lose." This was February 18 ...

Muhammad Ali is one of the greatest fighters in the history of boxing, and February 25, 1964 marked a crowing moment in Ali's ...