 After International News Photo went out of business, Scharfman joined the staff of "Sports Illustrated".Although his photographs graced the magazine's cover fifteen times in a ten-year span, he is best known for a photo in which he appears—Neil Leifer's shot of Muhammad Ali standing over a fallen Sonny Liston in their 1964 rematch.Scharfman was directly across the ring from Leifer, appearing between the legs of Ali in the iconic image.