Remember where you were in February of 1964????? I have vivid memories of it as I was fortunate to attend one of Sonny Liston's training session about 4 days before the fight. Joe Louis, Archie Moore and many others were in Liston's camp at the fancy Fountainbleau Hotel while then Cassius Clay was training at the ghetto 5th street gym.
Here's a pic of yours truly and my older brother Chuck (in glasses) taken after Liston's workout. We were informed in no uncertain terms NOT to ask for an autograph-Liston was illiterate-plus a very scary guy!
Here's a BBC clip of the famous weigh in where Ali got so wild they fined him $2500 and a brief post-fight celebration where the legendary phrase "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" was immortalized.
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