Carmen Basilio, right, hits Tony DeMarco with a body shot during their world welterweight title fight on June 10, 1955, at the War Memorial in Syracuse.

When Carmen Basilio’s teacher asked the students in her class what they wanted to be when they grew up, Basilio knew right away. “I always said I was going to be the champion of the world ...

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, who won the middleweight title from Sugar Ray Robinson in 1957, died Wednesday at 85. Texas flooding death toll rises to 32 as officials brace for 'long, toilsome' recovery.

This one is for my late friend Bill Gallo, who loved boxing as much as anybody I ever knew. It is about boxing and so it is about another time, when boxing was as much the king of sports as basebal… ...

Carmen Basilio never pulled any punches. Neither does his widow. "I hope they croak with them," Josie Basilio said Monday when asked how she feels about the thief or thieves who stole four of her ...

Basilio was a very welcoming man, except for when he was in the boxing ring. Carmen Basilio dead at age 85 (video) New Haven Register Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

There was a time when you were nobody in boxing until you'd had your pocket picked by Carmen Basilio. This is a story about the day I joined that not-so-exclusive club and the man who initiated me ...

Carmen Basilio, who wrested the world middleweight boxing crown from Sugar Ray Robinson in 1957 and lost an equally epic rematch six months later, died Wednesday at age 85.

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 ...