Liston was seen as the sturdy, establishment boxer and Ali, then Cassius Clay, the mouthy, flamboyant upstart. To many, Ali’s victory signaled a new era for boxing, for sports, and for the culture.

It depicts Muhammad Ali [then Cassius Clay] standing imperiously above long-time foe Sonny Liston, who lays strewn across the canvas in Round 2 of their 1965 rematch. On today's episode of Indo ...

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Sonny Liston, a glowering brute who’d flattened his last nine foes, fought against a 22-year-old Cassius Clay who entered as a laughingstock. Bookmakers priced him at 7-to-1 odds.

Sonny Liston, a glowering brute who’d flattened his last nine foes, fought against a 22-year-old Cassius Clay who entered as a laughingstock. Bookmakers priced him at 7-to-1 odds.

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Patterson was a poster boy for black integration while Liston stood as a totem of black alienation. Where Patterson was sensitive and shy, Liston was angry and malevolent. Thus the stage was set for ...

Eight years later he was in the Miami Beach Convention Hall to watch his boyhood idol Cassius Clay knock out Sonny Liston, and more than a quarter-century after that, Lampley was ringside in Tokyo ...

Kai Parham plays Ali’s brother and fellow boxer Rudy. Amin Joseph will play Sonny Liston, Ali’s rival and the heavyweight champion. In a recurring role, Michael Ealy will (finally) play Malcolm X.