A lot of people think so, including boxing insiders. Many others don't believe it. Some think Liston may have thrown the second fight in Lewiston, Maine, but not the first one. In any case, ...

DENVER (CBS4) - In the 1960s a young, brash fighter named Cassius Clay had his sights set on the heavyweight championship of the world. Standing in his way was the most intimidating fighter of his ...

Fifty years ago Tuesday, Cassius Clay shocked Sonny Liston to win the heavyweight title. In the decades afterward, the man later known as Muhammad Ali would politicize sports and transform the art of ...

Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston face off in a WBA/WBC World Heavyweight fight in this Miami Herald archive photo By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - Fifty years ago, an upstart American ...

Well, I saw the punch, the big punch, the punch that everybody says he didn’t see. It was a six to 10-inch overhand right crossing Liston’s left. It was a grand fight, and I loved the minute of it.

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 ...

Arguably the most feared and intimidating fighter in history, “The Big Bear” Sonny Liston, by Muhammad Ali‘s own admission, was the scariest man The Greatest ever faced. He is frequently remembered as ...