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, ...

Standing beneath an American flag in Rome after going head-to-head with Polish fighter Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, the ...

A records search by USA TODAY Sports indicates Muhammad Ali never legally changed his name from Cassius Clay — and lived in an era when he didn’t have to. Officials in Kentucky, where Ali was born, ...

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 ...

Elijah Muhammad offers Cassius a new name to secure his allegiance to the Nation of Islam. After the heavyweight champion grows close with Malcolm X, he announces to reporters that he's renounced the ...

The movie 'One Night in Miami,' directed by Regina King, imagines the conversations between four Black icons in 1964: Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke, Jim Brown and Malcolm X, on the night of Clay's surprise ...

All their lives, the great boxer and activist Muhammad Ali and his family members were told they were related to Sen. Henry Clay. It was a strong oral history reaching all the way to Ali's ...

The body of legendary U.S. world boxing champion Muhammad Ali arrived back in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, on Sunday. Ali died late Friday at the age of 74 of complications from Parkinson's ...

Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., as Muhammad Ali was once known, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on Jan. 17, 1942. Louisville was a city with segregated public facilities, noted for the Kentucky Derby, ...