They cheered as if they’d never seen anything quite like it. It was history.

They cheered as if they’d never seen anything quite like it. It was history.

There is a particular kind of roar that rumbles up from a crowd of spectators when what is unfolding before their own eyes is not something they even dared consider or imagine. You could clearly hear it, even through the imperfect background sound seeping into the ringside video recording the first Cassius Clay-Sonny Liston Heavyweight Championship match on this week in the Miami Beach Convention Center some 62 years ago. It was barely into Roun…