Ali's victory at the 1960 Olympics in Rome catapulted him into fame.

Muhammad Ali is one of the most well-known and presumably the greatest boxer of all-time, but the former heavyweight champion of the world was first ...

The full card, the scorecards and the undercard nobody remembers.

MIAMI BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - Fifty years ago, an upstart American boxer who later became known as Muhammad Ali "shook the world" when he dethroned Sonny Liston to claim the heavyweight ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Muhammad Ali, then Cassius Clay, upset Sonny Liston to claim his first heavyweight championship, beginning a legendary boxing ...

Sonny Liston built himself up to be one of the most feared heavyweight champions in boxing history. He was considered invincible. That all came to a halt when he faced a 7-to-1 underdog, a brash ...

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A crestfallen Sonny Liston had no intention of coming out for round seven. The heavyweight champion of the world had been outsmarted, outmaneuvered, outpunched and outclassed. In the other corner, ...

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 ...

Taking shape in the late 1920s, Golden Gloves boxing tournaments in Chicago and New York quickly were quickly established as prestigious proving grounds for elite amateur boxers across the United ...