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 ...

Back in 2003, I attended the induction ceremonies at the International Boxing Hall Of Fame in Canastota, New York. The highlight of this weekend event is meeting the fighters, particularly the old ...

Carmen Basilio was a ferocious fighter whose grueling matches riveted the nation during the golden age of boxing in the mid-20th century. The popular welterweight and middleweight champion was born on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ring-wise fight fans took it for granted that Welterweight Champion Carmen Basilio would have a rough night at the Boston Garden. If Challenger Tony DeMarco stayed on his feet for 15 rounds—so the ...

In his later years, Basilio still could conjure up dates of championship fights, the size of a purse, the name of a referee he loathed. But his mental agility had eroded, and his recollection of the ...

The summer vacationers had vanished, and the juke joints along the shore looked ready to be boarded up. In the little village of Greenwood Lake, N.Y., only the Long Pond Inn showed signs of life.

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, ...

Carmen Basilio was born on April 2, 1927, in Canastota, about 25 miles east of Syracuse, and was one of 10 children. His father was a fight nut, as he recalled, and bought his sons boxing gloves.