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 ...

For the professional boxer, fight day is a solemn day, and World Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson takes it as solemnly as lesser men. There are no high jinks, none of the footloose fun of ...

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 ...

Frankfurt, Germany, Dec. 24, 1950: Welterweight boxing champion Sugar Ray Robinson is interviewed after arriving by train in Frankfurt for his Christmas night fight against Hans Stretz. At right are ...

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988) Sugar Ray Robinson acrylic and oilstick on canvas 59.7/8 x 48.1/4 in. (152.1 x 122.6 cm.) Painted in 1982. His vigilant gaze directed at the viewer, his gloved fists ...

Shropshire (The Business of Sports Agents) calls this ""the biography of an idea"": Sugar Ray Robinson as the first sports figure to engineer a synergistic success machine out of a flashy image, a ...

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 him, died ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1982 painting depicting one of the world’s greatest boxers, Sugar Ray Robinson, is expected to fetch in the region of US$35 million at an upcoming auction in New York. Created ...