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 ...

Since The Ring magazine starting handing out Fight of the Year awards in 1945, it is fittingly the sport’s most famous participant, Muhammad Ali, who has won it the most times. Following closely ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – Friends, family, officials and well-wishers all crammed into the locker room. In a corner sat Carmen Basilio, who had just stopped Tony DeMarco in the 12th round to claim the world ...

FILE - This April 18, 2007 file photo shows Carmen Basilio posed at his home in Irondequoit, N.Y. Basilio, a genial onion farmer's son with a malevolent left hook who wrested the world middleweight ...

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 later, died ...

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 later, died on ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- 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 ...

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 ...