A crestfallen Sonny Liston had no intention of coming out ... In the other corner, recognizing his opponent’s plight was a 22-year-old Cassius Clay. He was the first outside of Liston’s ...

Cassius Clay won the world heavyweight title when a bleeding Sonny Liston, his left shoulder injured, was unable to answer the bell for the seventh round. ... From the beginning, it was hard to ...

Young Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, knocked out opponent Sonny Liston for his first world title in boxing on this day in history, Feb. 25, 1964. Twenty-two-year-old Clay achieved the ...

Sonny Liston and Cassius Clay signed Tuesday for a mid-February heavyweight championship bout, but the actual date and site remain as much up in the air as ever. Definite announcement of a site ...

Feb. 25, 1964: A crowd of 8,297 saw a brash 22-year-old named Cassius Clay live up to the oversized hype he created ahead of the world heavyweight title fight against champion Sonny Liston in ...

Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) was that young, charismatic contender, and the supposed invincible champ, Sonny Liston, found out that night that “The Greatest” was only beginning.

Cassius Clay was the heavyweight champion of the ... “I don’t have a mark on my face, and I upset Sonny Liston, and I just turned twenty-two years old,” he exclaimed to Howard Cosell in ...

Few give 22-year-old Cassius Clay much of a chance to dethrone heavyweight champ Sonny Liston. Only three of 46 writers covering the fight in Miami Beach had picked Clay, a 7-1 underdog.

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 ...