1960s Timeline

Oct. 27, 1962 - Rubin (Hurricane) Carter (right), a middleweight from Paterson N.J., needed only 69 seconds to knock Florentino Fernandez...

Oct. 23, 1962 - Dick Tiger (left) of Nigeria cut both of Gene Fullmer’s eyes tonight in pounding out a unanimous 15-round decision in San...

Oct. 6, 1962 - Sonny Liston (pictured left with his wife Geraldine) was picked up by police in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park last night...

Sept. 28, 1962 - Floyd Patterson was so humiliated after the first-round knockout by Sonny Liston Tuesday night in Chicago that he drove...

Sept. 26, 1962 - Former world heavyweight champion Gene Tunney (pictured left fighting Jack Dempsey in 1927) today called the Sonny...

Sept. 26, 1962 - There were reports last night that Cassius Clay had said he could knock out Sonny Liston, the new heavyweight champion,...

Sept. 26, 1962 - Nobody got his money’s worth at Comiskey Park last night except Sonny Liston, the new heavyweight champion. He knocked...

Sept. 21, 1962 - Joe Louis (right), Sonny Liston’s idol, visited the challenger’s training camp in Aurora Downs, Illinois, today in the...

Sept. 18, 1962 - There are two Sonny Listons, it seems. Both are larger than life. Both showed up in the heavyweight challenger’s...

Sept. 16, 1962 - Floyd Patterson, the world heavyweight champion, ended his public workouts today in Elgin, Illinois, by praising the...

Sept. 5, 1962 - Jack Dempsey was resting comfortably today at Chicago’s Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hospital after surgery for an old back...

Aug. 28, 1962 - Sonny Liston, the heavyweight challenger for Floyd Patterson’s crown, went through a long workout today in Aurora, Ill.,...

Aug. 9, 1962 - Archie Moore and undefeated Cassius Clay signed today to meet in Los Angeles in a 12-round heavyweight fight on Oct. 23....

Aug. 8, 1962 - Floyd Patterson (pictured) disclosed today he was strengthening his jaw in preparation for his heavyweight title defense...

July 30, 1962 - Mrs. Arthur Walker, wife of a New York real estate broker, said today that Mrs. Floyd Patterson, wife of the heavyweight...

July 24, 1962 - Jess Willard, world heavyweight boxing champion from 1915 to 1919, sought more than $1 million in damages today on the...

July 20, 1962 - Cassius Clay, an undefeated heavyweight from Louisville, knocked out Alejandro Lavorante of Argentina in the fifth round...

July 13, 1962 - Emile Griffith retained his world welterweight boxing title by winning a unanimous 15-round decision over Ralph Dupas in...

July 7, 1962 - Sugar Ray Robinson (left) and Davey Moore are the headliners Monday on the Los Angeles Sports Arena boxing card. The...

July 2, 1962 - The heavyweight champion, Floyd Patterson, and the challenger, Sonny Liston, will wear 8-ounce gloves and take the...