Yep, In their first go. Announced his conversion the next day.....To ‘Cassius X’. (Muhammed Ali was later). Listened to the first Clay/Liston fight on the radio, saw the second Ali/Liston fight on the then kinda new ‘closed circuit’ theater broadcast deal. Spring’65, A long darn time ago that was.
I remember the boy classmates in 7th grade all excited over a Liston/Clay fight. I remember one boy writing a poem about it (an assignment), and all of the other boys loving the poem. I even remember something like, “Big Sonny Liston is just like a piston...”
(WHY I remember this...I couldn’t tell you!! The strange things we remember!)