Sonny Liston had knocked Floyd Patterson out in the first round twice. Cassius Clay was 22 years old, 19-0, and most of the boxing press thought he was about to get hurt. Of the 46 sportswriters at ...

Cassius Clay had just beaten world champion Sonny Liston when he turned his wrath on the ringside reporters who had written him off as an underdog, shouting: “Eat your words!” Liston, nagged by a ...

Mark Rowlands writes about his father’s memory of watching the second Sonny Liston-Muhammad Ali fight on TV (“The Ghosts Within,” Books, Oct. 18). Perhaps that reinforces the author’s premise about ...

Robert A. Legg had to huddle around a radio in May 1965 because the Sonny Liston-Muhammad Ali fight was available only on closed circuit (Letters, Oct. 29). I remember that day vividly—I was lucky ...

Nobody knows for sure exactly when Sonny Liston was born or when he died. He's the only heavyweight champion of the 20th century about whom this can be said. It's fitting, that type of mystery. It's ...

Muhammad Ali is one of the most well-known and presumably the greatest boxer of all-time, but the former heavyweight champion of the world was first ...

Cassius Clay literally "shook up the world" on February 25, 1964, after defeating Sonny Liston to become the youngest heavy weight champion of the ...

All Eyes are on the Super Lightweight division this weekend as Britain's Dalton Smith defends his WBC title against the Dominican Republic's Alberto Puello Bare knuckle boxing is simultaneously one of ...