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Carmen Basilio (born Carmine Basilio, April 2, 1927 – November 7, 2012) was an American professional boxer who was the world champion in both the welterweight and middleweight divisions, beating Sugar Ray Robinson for the latter title.
"The 30-year old New Yorker, a masterful boxer, had no trouble in outscoring the willing but outclassed Basilio from start to finish. Graham, a dancing speedster, pumped tantalizing left jabs into Basilio's face until old cuts in Carmen's eyebrows oozed blood.
7 Nov 2012 · 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 (born April 2, 1927, Canastota, New York, U.S.—died November 7, 2012, Rochester, New York) was an American professional boxer, world welterweight and middleweight champion. (Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on boxing.)
5 Mei 2020 · 2002 inductee into the United States Marine Corps Sports Hall of Fame. In 1999, The Associated Press named Basilio the sixth best welterweight of the twentieth century. Book: The Onion Picker: Carmen Basilio and Boxing in the 1950s.
7 Nov 2012 · 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...
Carmen Basilio, who passed away on Nov. 7, is comforted by his cornermen after losing the middleweight title to Sugar Ray Robinson in their 1958 rematch. Basilio fought most of the fight-of-the-year bout with a closed left eye but still held Robinson to a split decision.
