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, 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Several people alleged to have been involved in thefts, including Carmen Basilio's four championship belts in 2015, were indicted Thursday in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Nicholas Dombek, Damien Boland, ...

Sep. 15—WATERTOWN — A photograph of former junior welterweight boxers Micky Ward and Arturo Gatti, waging battle in one of the most thrilling non-title fights in history, sits above the training timer ...

During the referee's instructions, Basilio was startled when Robinson leaned in snarling, baring his teeth like a wildcat. Basilio went back to his corner and burst out laughing, and it loosened him ...