Cassius Clay
vs.
Sonny Liston

CONVENTION HALL
1700 Washington Ave.
Miami Beach, Florida

Tuesday Evening
February 25, 1964

Dundee-MacDonald Enterprises, Inc. promoter

 

 


An ensemble of rare items depicting a young Cassius Clay's title winning performance over the heavily favored Sonny Liston... Featuring a vintage original oversized photo, measuring 20 x 24", which once hung in a photographic museum in Florida... Digital camera view was unkind to photo which has perfect clarity in person
 

   


onsite stubless ticket

   

 

 
 

FROM THE BOOKS
The arrogant and brash Clay taunted Liston before, during and after this, their first fight for the world heavyweight championship. Liston was thought to be unbeatable but Clay survived the champion's initial onslaught and then took the initiative. Notoriously, Liston refused to come out of his corner at the start of the seventh round, and the greatest career in boxing history reached its first major peak.
Peter Brooke-Ball/The Boxing Album

 
 

 

 

 

Sonny Liston

vintage pinback
&
signature

 
 
 
 


Clay Wins Title in Seventh-Round
Upset As Liston Is Halted
by Shoulder Injury

Clay Is Exultant

By ROBERT LIPSYTE
special to the New York Times

 
 
    MIAMI BEACH, Feb. 25 - Incredibly, the loud-mouthed bragging, insulting youngster had been telling the truth all along. Cassius Clay won the world heavyweight title tonight when a bleeding Sonny Liston, his left shoulder injured, was unable to answer the bell for the seventh round.
    Immediately after he had been announced as the new heavyweight champion of the world, Clay yelled to newsmen covering the fight: "Eat your words." Only three of 46 sports writers covering the fight had picked him to win.
    A crowd of 8,297, on it's feet through the early rounds at Convention Hall, sat stunned during the one-minute rest period between the sixth and seventh rounds. Only Clay seemed to know what had happened; he threw up his hands and danced a little jig in the center of the ring.
 
 


The New York Times - February 26, 1964
 

 
 
 


Cassius Clay - vintage pinback & vintage 1960's signature

 

measures: 32.25 x 35.5"
condition: al items are excellent, no major flaws

 
 


digital camera view through glass

 

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