Sonny Liston had knocked Floyd Patterson out in the first round twice. Cassius Clay was 22 years old, 19-0, and most of the boxing press thought he was about to get hurt. Of the 46 sportswriters at ...

Cassius Clay had just beaten world champion Sonny Liston when he turned his wrath on the ringside reporters who had written him off as an underdog, shouting: “Eat your words!” Liston, nagged by a ...

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