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 ...

When Sonny Liston stepped into the ring in Miami Beach on February 25, 1964, he was widely expected to leave it the way he entered: as heavyweight champion of the world. Of the top 10 ranked ...

In any case, controversy has been a shadow over the two Clay-Liston fights and that shadow remains to this day. Unsatisfactory endings to both bouts — in February of 1964 at Miami Beach and in May 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 ...

Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston face off in a WBA/WBC World Heavyweight fight in this Miami Herald archive photo By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - Fifty years ago, an upstart American ...

60 years ago, on a chilly February night in Miami Beach, the world bore witness to one of the most iconic moments in boxing history. It was a matchup of menacing champ and loud-mouthed former Olympic ...

The first tremors were felt in Miami, late in the night of Feb. 25, 1964, but early in the fight. Late in the first round, the challenger, a kid with a big mouth, began tagging the champ, who was as ...

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