Hailed by Muhammad Ali as "the king, the master, my idol," Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest boxer America had seen since Joe Louis and is considered by many today to be, pound for pound, the best ...

The legendary Sugar Ray Robinson (174-19-6-2 NC, 109 KOs) was born as Walker Smith Jr. in Ailey, Georgia, moving to New York City after his parents separated, which led to him dropping out of school ...

When people think of legendary boxers, names like Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, and Joe Frazier come to mind. These fighters set the standard for what boxing is today, inspiring numerous fighters to ...

Muhammad Ali called him the best boxer ever. He never lost an amateur fight. He won his first 40 bouts as a professional. He held both the welterweight and middleweight championship belts. There's ...

This Saturday night in Los Vegas, Felix "Tito" Trinidad will square off against Ronald "Winky" Wright in the most anticipated boxing match of the year. Each fighter considers himself, pound for pound, ...

Jose "OnFire" Aguirre and Tim "Dogg" Fears knock out the interviews at the ceremony to introduce the Sugar Ray Robinson stamp, only the second fighter in history to have his own stamp. Listen to ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Carmen Basilio, a genial onion farmer’s son with a malevolent left hook who wrested the world middleweight boxing crown from Sugar Ray Robinson in 1957, has died. He was ...