1960s Timeline

Mar. 25, 1963 - Steps aimed at outlawing boxing in California were taken today, and Gov. Edmund G. Brown (pictured) promised support of...

Mar. 25, 1963 - Calls for the abolition of boxing grew louder today after the death of Davey Moore (pictured in 1960) in Los Angeles...

Mar. 24, 1963 - Troubled boxer Sugar Ramos personally expressed his sorrow to the wife of Davey Moore in a private and highly emotional...

Mar. 23, 1963 - Boxer Davey Moore’s chances of survival were described as “less than 50-50” today as the dethroned featherweight champion...

Mar. 22, 1963 - “What can you do about destiny?” Sugar Ramos (pictured last night), who was unable to sleep until 6 a.m. this morning,...

Mar. 22, 1963 - Davey Moore fought for his life today, still unconscious after having been knocked out by Sugar Ramos in the fight for...

Mar. 22, 1963 - A jubilant Luis Rodriguez thought he won the fight and world welterweight title, and an embittered Emile Griffith figured...

Mar. 21, 1963 - Davey Moore (right), dethroned featherweight champion, was taken unconscious by ambulance tonight to White Memorial...

Mar. 16, 1963 - The world championship heavyweight fight between champion Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson was postponed indefinitely...

Mar. 14, 1963 - At a press conference today at Madison Square Garden, a slightly subdued Cassius Clay still talked boldly of whipping...

Mar. 14, 1963 - “Clay showed me I’ll get locked up for murder if we’re ever matched.” That was the immediate reaction of Sonny Liston...

Mar. 13, 1963 - Although he failed to knock out his opponent as predicted, Cassius Marcellus Clay remained boxing’s most discussed...

Mar. 12, 1963 - Unbeaten Cassius Clay and Doug Jones finished training yesterday for their heavyweight fight tomorrow night with all...

Mar. 10, 1963 - Cassius Clay, the “Louisville Lip” who has said Doug Jones “must fall in six” in their non-title heavyweight fight...

Mar. 7, 1963 - Cassius Marcellus Clay took a coffee-house break from his training today to read poetry. The heavyweight contender recited...

Mar. 3, 1963 - Dethroned heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson said today his most bitter memories from the first-round knockout by Sonny...

Mar. 1, 1963 - Sonny Liston resumed training for his first title defense today in Miami Beach after a week’s layoff and seemed more...

Feb. 23, 1963 - Gene Fullmer (left) failed in his bid to regain the world’s middleweight championship when his 15-round rematch with...

Feb. 17, 1963 - World heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston (pictured with Richard Chamberlain of “Dr. Kildare”) said today his life...

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