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, ...

Sonny Liston was one of the most dominant world champions in history and began his reign with a win over a man whose career was ended by Muhammad Ali. Outside of a rare loss in his eighth career fight ...

LEWISTON, Maine — A new statue honoring boxing legend Muhammad Ali was unveiled Saturday on Main Street in Lewiston, nearly 60 years after his legendary "Phantom Punch" knocked out Sonny Liston and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, when ...

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 ...

The death Friday of Muhammad Ali has had me remembering many stories I've heard over the years about the champ's career. Here's a story that we ran here a little over a year ago. It was about a fight ...

The scene: a recent press conference at the training camp of Heavyweight Challenger Charles (“Sonny”) Liston, in New York’s Catskill Mountains. Liston has not yet arrived; Trainer Willie Reddish and ...

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, ...