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,” Basilio ...

Carmen Basilio said he made his opponents cry with "onion juice", and during a remarkable boxing career he left some of the very best in tears. Basilio was born to onion farmers, raised on an onion ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — 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, ...

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 baseball ...

Carmen Basilio, who defeated Sugar Ray Robinson for the middleweight title in 1957, died at a Rochester hospital on Wednesday. He was 85 years old. The International Boxing Hall of Fame announced that ...