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Cassius Clay had just beaten world champion Sonny Liston when he turned his wrath on the ringside reporters who had written him off as an underdog, shouting: "Eat your words!"
Liston, nagged by a shoulder injury, threw in the towel before the seventh round at Miami's Convention Hall, surrendering his heavyweight championship belt to the loose-lipped 22-year-old on February 25, 1964.
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