Nobody ever described Jake LaMotta as well as he once described himself. Or, actually, maybe describe is the wrong word. It’s more like he was confessing. Or possibly he was explaining something that ...

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 ...

There were chartered flights in the air, heading for the United States, two days before the bout. British dignitaries and sportsmen -- among them the mayor of Turpin's home town -- were en route.

"Sweet Thunder" (Knopf, 464 pages, $27.95), by Wil Haygood: The boxer Sugar Ray Robinson was a man of glittering skill and deep complexity. So complex, in fact, that several writers — including ...

ROCHESTER — 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, ...

The item in Walter Winchell’s column one day last June sounded genuinely solicitous. “Sugar Ray Robinson and gambler-shylocks are at war,” it read. “Buddies rushed out of Harlem bars and saved him ...