A crestfallen Sonny Liston had no intention ... recognizing his opponent’s plight was a 22-year-old Cassius Clay. He was the first outside of Liston’s team to notice the surrender and shot ...

And much is gentle sportsfans might wish that Liston would meet the Bombera fate, there is no fistic Sandy Koufax around to strike out Sonny. Of course there is Cassius Clay. The present tense ...

I can beat any fighter ... this Liston-Clay fight will remain a subject of continuing controversy. Could a healthy Sonny Liston have made good his promise to cool Cassius in rounds two or three?

I have no idea how much harm the so-called fight, between Clay and Liston has done to the ... Well this is a far cry from the sullen Sonny Lister and the clownish Cassius Clay, and the ghastly ...

One thing about Cassius ... Sonny Liston. The tomato-red Caddy was gone, replaced by a block-long black limousine and a Muslim chauffeur who wore a fuzzy fur hat. Gone, too, were the foxes-Clay ...

Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) fights Sonny Liston to win the heavyweight championship of the world for the first time. Commentator Harry Carpenter presents the BBC screening of the ...