A crestfallen Sonny Liston had no intention of coming ... Following his second defeat to Ali, Liston went on a 14-fight unbeaten streak. Only one of his opponents, Billy Joiner, managed to last ...

20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.) Neil Leifer (born 1942) is one of the most significant boxing photographers of all time, having captured some of the twentieth century’s most iconic and memorable images of ...

Ali was known as Cassius Clay when he stopped Sonny Liston in 1964. Cassius Clay. He was Cassius Marcellus Clay when he "shook up the world" and beat Sonny Liston on Feb. 25, 1964. The next ...

A shortsighted sportswriter a few months back dared to ink the late New York Yankees with Sonny Liston in some absurd metaphor about twin colossuses astride the narrow world of sports. What with ...

Sonny Liston twice beat Floyd Patterson, Ali twice beat Liston, Foreman twice beat Joe Frazier, Ali twice beat Frazier and Ken Norton. Meanwhile, the biggest and richest fight of that period was a ...

On this day in 1965, Muhammad Ali gave us one of the most iconic images in sports history as the 🐐 defeated Sonny Liston in their rematch. “Get up and fight, sucker!” (AP Photo/John Rooney ...