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Mar 25, 2023

California Gov. Brown Takes Initial Steps to Outlaw Boxing

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

Mar 25, 2023

🚨Boxer Davey Moore Dead at 29

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, 2023

Sugar Ramos Apologizes to Davey Moore’s Wife

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, 2023

Boxer Davey Moore’s Chances of Survival Not Good

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, 2023

New Featherweight Champion Despairs Over Davey Moore’s Condition

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, 2023

Dethroned Featherweight Davey Moore Fights For His Life

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, 2023

Welterweight Rodriguez Tops Griffith In 15-Round Decision

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

Mar 21, 2023

🚨Featherweight Davey Moore Hospitalized After Losing Title

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

Mar 16, 2023

Liston-Patterson Fight Postponed

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

Mar 14, 2023

Cassius Clay Talks Possible Rematch With Jones

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

Mar 14, 2023

Liston on Clay Matchup: I’ll Get Locked Up for Murder

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, 2023

Clay Outlasts Jones in Closely Fought Victory at MSG

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

Mar 12, 2023

Cassius Clay and Doug Jones Set for Madison Square Garden Contest

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

Mar 10, 2023

Cassius Clay: Doug Jones Will Fall in Four

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, 2023

Cassius Clay Enters Poetry Competition

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

Mar 3, 2023

Floyd Patterson: “I Am Not Afraid of Any Man”

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

Mar 1, 2023

Liston Trains for Rematch with Patterson

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, 2023

Fullmer and Tiger Draw in Las Vegas

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, 2023

Liston Claims Phone Threats

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

Feb 9, 2023

Clay and Liston Nearly Come to Blows in Miami Gym

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