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 ...

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.

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 was well on his way to becoming arguably the greatest boxer in history. From the beginning of the fight on February 25, 1964, something was different about this fight. Liston came out ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sonny Liston was a 7-1 favorite to retain his title against the 22-year-old Cassius Clay. Few people thought that Clay would be able to withstand Liston's power and unyielding pressure.