📅 On This Day In 1963 Sonny Liston made his first defense of the heavyweight championship with a first round KO of Floyd Patterson at the Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. • Liston was made a 4-to-1 favorite • Crowd of 7,800 at the produced a gate of $280,000 • Patterson went down three times, lasting four seconds longer than the first fight • A ringside vendor reportedly yelled "Last round, folks!" immediately before round 1 #boxing #history #reels #onthisday #sonnyliston | BTR Boxing Po