Muhammad Ali 21 during an elimination bout following Rocky Marciano's retirement. Mike Tyson broke both records in 1986 when he defeated Trevor Berbick to win the heavyweight title at age 20. Soon after the Liston fight, Clay changed his name to Cassius X, and then later to Muhammad Ali upon converting to Islam and affiliating with the Nation of Islam. Ali then faced a rematch with Liston scheduled for May 1965 in Lewiston, Maine. It had been scheduled for Boston the previous November, but was postponed for six months due to Ali's emergency surgery for a hernia three days before. The fight
Muhammad Ali in China his right fist in exaggerated circles, and then pretended that he had been knocked out. Wang Wei described the fight as the "greatest day of his life." A photograph of this visit, taken in a Shanghai gym, depicts a "rail-thin" boxer, Xiong Wei, reaching up to jab Ali; and Ali, in dark trousers and a white dress shirt, covering his face with his gloves. In a June 2016 interview, Xiong Wei's son Xiong Xin, a prominent Chinese boxer, said: In an article published in "China Youth News", Ali wrote: "Now that you are open to the world, never lose your