A 10-foot bronze Muhammad Ali was unveiled in 2025 near Bates Mill No. 5 to mark 60 years since Ali’s bizarrely brief 1965 rematch with Sonny Liston in Lewiston. The fight ended in the first round after the controversial “phantom punch,” creating one of the strangest heavyweight-title moments in boxing history.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: Roadside America