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Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston II
"the phantom punch"

May 25, 1965

Exactly fifteen months earlier, Muhammad Ali had delivered on his promise - one mocked by many of boxing's foremost experts - to defeat Sonny Liston and claim the WBC and WBA heavyweight world championships. It had been messy, but Cassius Clay (as he was then known) was the new heavyweight champion of the world.

The press went nuts. Until this point, the boxing media considered Ali's trademark style - hands down, leaning back, showboating - as critical flaws. They were certain that Liston, a worthy champion if not a popular one, would expose these flaws, and all of America waited expectantly for the hated braggart to fall. Instead, Ali practically steamrolled Liston, a man so terrifying that many top contenders refused to face him for fear of permanent damage. But the fight - the mysterious substance that blinded Ali in the fourth round, the injury that ended the fight after the sixth, and Liston's incredibly poor conditioning (Liston himself expected an early knockout and neglected his training) - was so controversial that the WBC ordered a rematch.

What followed was a series of events as ludicrous as the fights themselves. The WBA's rules prohibited immediate rematches, so when Ali chose to comply with the Council, the Association stripped him of his title. Three days before the scheduled rematch, Ali underwent emergency surgery for a strangulated hernia. The fight would be postponed six months. Suddenly the city of Boston refused to host the rescheduled match, claiming that the proper paperwork was not in order. The fight was moved to a remote location in Maine to preserve the promoters' closed-circuit TV contracts. As for Ali, he did no mocking rapping and made no boorish comments. He was uncharacteristically sober, and not because winning the championship had matured him. Four days earlier, his former friend and mentor, Malcolm X, had been assassinated by members of Ali's own Nation of Islam…

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