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, 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 ...

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, 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 ...

Producers are stepping back into the ring for a movie about Central New York boxing legend. “Basilio,” a biopic about Boxing Hall of Famer Carmen Basilio, is aiming to shoot in the Syracuse area this ...

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.

Sep. 19—WATERTOWN — The 15th annual Carmen Basilio's Quest for Champions this Saturday will honor one boxer lost and celebrate another regained. The city boxing highlight — expected to showcase ...