In 1964, Muhammad Ali was still known as Cassius Clay and was just 22 when he signed to fight Sonny Liston.

Sonny Liston, pictured with the Kray twins, rose to fame thanks to his boxing skills, but was never far away criminals Credit: Getty Images When Liston became the top challenger to champion Floyd ...

On this day in 1963, Sonny Liston took on Floyd Patterson at the Las Vegas Convention Center for the undisputed heavyweight ...

It was the phoniest knockout I ever saw, that time Muhammad Ali put down Sonny Liston for the count in some town called Lewiston, Maine, because the fight got run out of Boston. Fifty years ago.

(Originally published by the Daily News on January 7, 1971. This story was written by Dick Young.) There is a certain sadness in the fact that a man, even a big, brutal mug of a man should lay dead… ...

Despite his championship status, Ali was one anxious man in the spring of 1965. In addition to the very real fear of facing Sonny Liston once again, his marriage was in shambles, and his life in ...

Liston claims the injury occurred in Round One. Although the champ was not noticeably crippled until the fourth or fifth, Cassius Clay undoubtedly won his crown from a disabled Sonny Liston.