On this day in 1965, Muhammad Ali gave us one of the most iconic images in sports history as the 🐐 defeated Sonny Liston in their rematch. “Get up and fight, sucker!” (AP Photo/John Rooney ...
Liston tried in vain to get off the power shots that had ... left hook knockdown in the final round of “The Fight of the Century”. It was Ali who won “The Rumble in the Jungle” by shocking ...
Ali died at the age of 74 after a 30-year fight ... Liston, Joe Frazier, Jerry Quarry, Oscar Bonavena and the list goes on. Heavyweight contender Cassius Clay (now Muhammad Ali) held up three ...
The statue is well on its way toward being unveiled May 25 to mark the 60th anniversary of Ali's knockout of Liston ... fight. “How in the world does the biggest fight of the century end up ...
I have no idea how much harm the so-called fight, between Clay and Liston has done to the United ... I think maybe the time has come to get back to the background of American life in these talks ...
the challengers squared up for a rematch in Lewiston, Maine. The fight lasted less than 2 minutes, as Ali knocked out Liston with a “phantom punch” that very few in the audience could even see.