1960s Timeline

Feb. 14, 1963 - Max Baer, the former heavyweight champion, always wanted to be an actor more than a fighter. He starred in a film called...

Feb. 9, 1963 - Cassius Clay (pictured with Angelo Dundee) and Sonny Liston came close to tangling physically today in an exchange of...

Feb. 4, 1963 - Proposals to ban professional boxing in New York State ran into solid opposition today at a joint legislative committee...

Jan. 24, 1963 - Cassius Clay, self-proclaimed “Louisville Lip,” disposed of a former professional football player, Charlie Powell, in...

Jan. 23, 1963 - “So you people will believe in me, Powell must now go in three.” So reads the latest entry in the verse anthology of...

Jan. 22, 1963 - There was agitation in Illinois and New York today for the abolition of professional boxing. These are the two states...

Dec. 25, 1962 - Heavyweight boxer Alejandro Lavorante (right), in a coma since Sept. 21, spent a silent Christmas today in California...

Dec. 22, 1962 - Rubin (Hurricane) Carter (left), slugging middleweight contender, had to climb off the canvas in the fourth round tonight...

Dec. 18, 1962 - Heavyweight boxer Eddie Machen (pictured in 1960 with his manager Sid Flaherty) is so mentally disturbed that he is...

Dec. 17, 1962 - Unbeaten heavyweight contender Cassius Clay of Louisville, Ky., was matched Monday for a 10-round fight with former pro...

Dec. 15, 1962 - Light-heavyweight contender Doug Jones of New York climbed off the canvas in the first round tonight and scored the...

Dec. 13, 1962 - Heavyweight fighter Eddie Machen (pictured) knocked two hospital attendants unconscious and injured a third in a wild and...

Dec. 12, 1962 - Third-ranked heavyweight boxer Eddie Machen (pictured in July) was taken into custody by the California State Highway...

Dec. 9, 1962 - Gloomy Emile Griffith, the haunted world welterweight champion, will not be unhappy to see 1962 come to an end. This has...

Dec. 8, 1962 - Emile Griffith retained his welterweight crown last night on a controversial ninth-round TKO over Argentina’s Jorge...

Nov. 30, 1962 - Sonny Liston and his wife Geraldine moved to Chicago today because the heavyweight boxing champion of the world believes...

Nov. 16, 1962 - World heavyweight champion Sonny Liston said today he would defend his title “wherever the price is right.” Both Liston...

Nov. 16, 1962 - Following his devastating four-round victory over Archie Moore at the Los Angeles Sports Arena last night, cocky...

Nov. 15, 1962 - Just as he predicted, brash young Cassius Clay knocked out aging Archie Moore tonight in 1 minute 35 seconds of the...

Nov. 15, 1962 - Cassius Clay takes the biggest step in his brief boxing career tonight when he enters the ring against the experienced...