In Charles "Sonny" Liston, the late boxer who briefly held the heavyweight title in the early 1960s, Tosches again has a perfect netherworld subject. For Liston, a convicted felon who provided hired ...

Sixty years ago this year, a glib boxer named Cassius Clay came to Lewiston to defend his world heavyweight crown against ...

Clay was in training for his bout with Sonny Liston, the reigning world champion, who had underworld ties and a heavy, flooring punch. Veteran sportswriters said the pretty kid wouldn’t last ...

Later this month, a statue commemorating one of the most iconic sports moments in Maine’s history will be unveiled in ...

Joseph will play his rival, heavyweight champion Sonny Liston. Nicknamed “The Bear,” Liston had been considered unbeatable until he lost the title in 1964 to loud-mouthed underdog Muhammad Ali ...

Muhammad Ali is one of boxing's greatest ever fighters, but once revealed there was just one man he would have fallen short ...

They'd been conned! Photographer Harry Benson had told them he would set up a picture with the heavyweight champion of the world, Sonny Liston. But instead he had dumped them in the training camp ...

Sixty years ago this year, a glib boxer named Cassius Clay came to Lewiston to defend his world heavyweight crown against former champion Sonny Liston. It didn’t take Clay long to win.