Standing beneath an American flag in Rome after going head-to-head with Polish fighter Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, the ...

A 21-year-old Cassius Clay was completely unaware of the danger. After having had a scare or two in the opening round, as well as a bloody nose, the brash young American had things well in hand in the ...

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 ...

Van breaks into elite company in the pound-for-pound rankings with his dominant showing against Alexandre Pantoja, while Tsarukyan and another familiar name crash the party. Alexandre Pantoja has ...

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, ...

MIAMI BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - Fifty years ago, an upstart American boxer who later became known as Muhammad Ali "shook the world" when he dethroned Sonny Liston to claim the heavyweight ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 25, 1964, a 22-year-old Muhammad Ali, then Cassius Clay, became world heavyweight boxing champion for the first ...