Photographer Neil Leifer, in left chair, tells his story to HBO’s Frank Deford at The Colisee in Lewiston during a Wednesday interview about how his famous photo of Muhammad Ali was made on May 25, 1965. Leifer is returning to some of the places of events that he covered for Sports Illustrated from 1958 to 1978 as he works on a yearlong project for Sports Illustrated. The city of Lewiston dressed up the arena to look as it did 40 years ago so that Leifer could spend the last two days photographing it for a “then and now” comparison. Leifer was ringside when Ali knocked out Sonny Liston in the first round of their second title fight with a blow that came to be known as “The Phantom Punch.” “I don’t want to say this is the ghost of Ali-Liston II, but that’s kind of what I’m hoping for,” Leifer said. Deford, a prominent writer for SI, is doing a segment about Leifer’s project for HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.”