Ring-wise fight fans took it for granted that Welterweight Champion Carmen Basilio would have a rough night at the Boston Garden. If Challenger Tony DeMarco stayed on his feet for 15 rounds—so the ...

Basilio's ferocious battles with the likes of Billy Graham and Kid Gavilan riveted a nation during the age of black-and-white television. Hindered on his ascent by a reluctance to deal with mobsters, ...

Back in 2003, I attended the induction ceremonies at the International Boxing Hall Of Fame in Canastota, New York. The highlight of this weekend event is meeting the fighters, particularly the old ...

Every summer, California-based promoter Don Chargin makes an annual trip to Canastota, N.Y., to visit old friends and fellow enshrinees at the International Boxing Hall of Fame. When he returns to ...

Carmen Basilio, a former welterweight and middleweight world champion, died Wednesday of complications from pneumonia in Rochester, N.Y. He was 85. Basilio's biggest win in his career came against ...

Carmen Basilio, the welterweight and middleweight boxing champion of the 1950s who fought two brutal bouts with Sugar Ray Robinson, winning his middleweight title and then losing it to him, died ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Carmen Basilio, a genial onion farmer's son who wrested the world middleweight boxing crown from Sugar Ray Robinson in 1957 and lost an equally epic, razor-edge rematch six months ...