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, 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 ...

The first person to teach me anything about boxing was my sister, Rosalind, two years older and many years smarter. In those days, I thought Rosalind simply knew and knew and knew. She told me all ...

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 ...

Just before the bout began, the fighters touched gloves. But after their ritual handshake in Chicago’s Stadium, not another friendly gesture marred the festivities. Aging (30) Middleweight Champion ...

Sugar Ray Leonard believes there is just one fighter in boxing history that ranks above the late, great Muhammad Ali.

Several hundred people packed a New York church on Monday to say final goodbyes to Carmen Basilio. The former world middleweight champion, who was 85 when he died last week, was buried after a church ...

ROCHESTER — 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, ...

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 ...