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 ...

A crestfallen Sonny Liston had no intention of coming out for round seven. The heavyweight champion of the world had been outsmarted, outmaneuvered, outpunched and outclassed. In the other corner, ...

Students of boxing history had good reason to pick Daniel Dubois in his rematch with Fabio Wardley Bare knuckle boxing is simultaneously one of the oldest sports in the world that is still being ...

Ali donned the garment on his way to the ring in his rematch with Liston -- which many consider one of the most memorable fights ever. Ali not only knocked out Liston in iconic fashion in the ring ...

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 ...

The robe Muhammad Ali wore before one of the most important fights of his career could soon be yours. The garment the Greatest wore to the final weigh-in and while walking out for his 1965 fight with ...

Zenos Frudakis stands beside his 10-foot-tall statue of Muhammad Ali at Laran Bronze Foundry in Chester, Pa. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would ...

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 ...