Gloves from famous Muhammad Ali v Joe Liston match fetch €1m

The gloves worn by Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston during their infamous 1965 rematch and a rare century-old signed photo of Shoeless Joe Jackson have fetched over $1.1m (€960,000) at an auction.

Both pairs of gloves from the May 25, 1965, bout in Lewiston, Maine — won by Ali with a first-round knockout from what some saw as a ‘phantom punch’ — were seized by George Russo, the boxing commissioner for Maine.

The gloves remained in the Russo family until a California collector purchased them several years ago before putting them up for auction.