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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cassius Clay will forever be enlaced with South Florida’s international profile since he defeated Sonny Liston in six rounds in Miami Beach in 1964. It was in South Florida that Clay would meet the ...

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One thing about Cassius Clay. He is a man of his word. “I’m gonna shake up this town,” said the world’s heavy weight champion last week — and he did. The town was New York. Announcing that he had ...