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 ...

After making a return to the sport in 1970 following a three year hiatus, Ali re-established himself as one of, if not the ...

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

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

He regained the heavyweight championship in 1974 when he sensationally defeated George Foreman in ‘The Rumble In The Jungle’ in October 1974, in what is often regarded as Ali’s greatest ever victory ...