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On May 25, 1965, heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali — only a short time before known as Cassius Clay — knocked out former champ Sonny Liston in the first round with a punch that scarcely anyone saw. Fifty years later, most have still not seen it.
This minute-and-a-half of chaos has generated more controversy and more ink than any other single round in boxing history. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, never in the field of fistic conflict has so much been written by so many about so few punches.
