IT WAS THE win that launched the greatest boxing career of them all.
Fifty years ago, a 22-year-old named Cassius Clay stepped into the ring as a massive underdog and beat the world heavyweight champion Sonny Liston.
The seventh-round stoppage at the Miami Beach Convention Centre has gone down in history as one of the significant moments in 20th century sport.
Marking the fight’s anniversary, the 72-year-old Ali tweeted a picture of his celebrations that night and said: “I shook up the world against Liston, now 50 years later I’m taking it to Twitter.”
Here’s the TV footage of the sixth and final round, and the celebrations that followed when Liston failed to come out of his corner, handing Clay victory.
The fight’s anniversary has been overshadowed by FBI documents, released to the Washington Times, which claim the result may have been fixed.
