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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bobby Dykes, 77, a boxer in the 1940s and ‘50s who fought Kid Gavilan and Sugar Ray Robinson, died Wednesday of Lou Gehrig’s disease at his home in Coral Gables, Fla., his son-in-law Harry Roberts ...

In Valatie, where he lived for two decades, Joey Archer wasn’t recognized as the boxer who sent Sugar Ray Robinson into retirement or the man who fought twice for the world middleweight title at ...

If youâ ve heard somebody use the phrase â pound for pound,â if youâ ve marveled at an athleteâ s entourage, if you know who the singer Mark McGrath is, then you know a little something about Sugar ...

Florida A&M University professor Luther D. Wells and alumnus Reginald L. Wilson are taking “Sugar Ray,” a one-man show about legendary boxer Sugar Ray Robinson to an off-Broadway theater. The two ...

A film based on the life of legendary boxer Sugar Ray Robinson is in the works. Haygood has been tapped to write the script for the project, which will centre on the life and career of Robinson, the ...

Max Kellerman was the voice of boxing analysis for over two decades and made his return to the commentary desk for the fight ...