On May 25, 1965, Muhammad Ali took on Sonny Liston in a rematch of ... a brilliant boxer and media-savvy showman. The photo of Ali standing over Liston became an iconic image in sports history.

On May 25, 1965, Leifer snapped a photo of Muhammad Ali knocking out Sonny Liston in a ... to be settled by sudden-death overtime. Leifer shot the first Ali-Liston fight a year earlier in Miami.

When Muhammad Ali knocked down Sonny Liston on May 25 ... then languishing in a photo editor’s file. And yet now, exactly 60 years later, Leifer’s picture is considered by many to be the ...

1951 — NY Giant Willie Mays 1st major league game (goes 0 for 5). 1965 — Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston a minute into the first round in the controversial rematch for Ali’s heavyweight ...

Lewiston's Muhammad Ali statue, unveiled recently in front of Bates Mill No. 5, commemorates a famous rematch of two heavyweights, Ali and Sonny Liston, in May 1965. But it took two local ...

60 years ago this week, a photograph widely considered to be sport's gold standard was captured. It depicts Muhammad Ali [then Cassius Clay] standing imperiously above long-time foe Sonny Liston ...