Challenger Muhammad Ali, or Cassius Clay as he was known at the time, pokes a fast left jab to the face of Sonny Liston during their championship heavyweight fight in Miami Beach, Fla., Feb 25, 1964.

What happened in the first fight between Sonny Liston and Muhammad Ali? Clay (19-0, 15 KOs) weighed in at 210½ pounds, while Liston (35-1, 24 KOs) came in at 218. The referee was Barney Felix.

Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, stands over fallen challenger Sonny Liston, shouting and gesturing shortly after dropping Liston with a short hard right to the jaw ...

It took less than 2 minutes for Muhammad Ali, then a 23-year-old heavyweight fighter, to take down the 34-year-old Sonny Liston on May 25, 1965 in Lewiston, Maine.

"If Ali doesn't beat Sonny Liston, the course of history is different," he said. "It was the fact that he was heavyweight champion of the world that gave those acts on his part national importance." ...

Aside from being a four-time world champion at heavyweight, Holyfield was also the first fighter in the sport’s history to ...

Liston died without getting to see Ali's vision come true. And, right up until the end, he never got Ali. Sonny's last fight was against Chuck Wepner at the Jersey City Armory in the summer of 1970.

Muhammad Ali first beat Liston for the heavyweight crown in 1964, but it was the second find that cemented his legacy in boxing history. After months of talk that Ali wasn't a worthy champ, he ...

Ali wanted a shot at Liston, but Liston didn’t want to fight the brash 22-year-old. So Ali hatched a plan to get Liston to agree to a fight. How Muhammad Ali used a bus at 3 a.m. to get Sonny ...

The record books say Muhammad Ali defeated Sonny Liston on a first-round knockout, vanquishing the man he had upset 15 months earlier to claim the title. But the circumstances of the evening were ...

On the 50th anniversary of Muhammad Ali’s stunning upset over Sonny Liston in their first fight, which was Tuesday, the Washington Times ran a story suggesting the bout might have been fixed.

The gloves Muhammad Ali used to beat Sonny Liston on Feb. 25, 1964, were auctioned off on Saturday night. ESPN's Dan Rafael reported the gloves fetched a cool $836,500.