One man who is often regarded as being the 'GOAT' is late-great heavyweight icon Muhammad Ali, who remains arguably the most ...

Despite the outstanding success of both, retired five-division world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr revealed in an interview ...

Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, and Mike Tyson represent three of the popular answers when fans or pundits - or fighters - name their boxing GOAT, but the trio each named 'Sugar' Ray Leonard ...

One of the side features of a Sugar Ray Robinson championship bout was the magnetic force with which it pulled in the cream of Negro America -- writers, political ward leaders, musicians ...

The top boxers of all time earned their places on this list through a combination of skill, legacy, and impact both inside ...

They said, he just won, they counted to 10," said former middleweight champion Gene Fullmer about Sugar Ray Robinson on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series. "Pound for pound, the best." ...

Sugar Ray Robinson, generally acknowledged as the greatest boxer in history, the man for whom the expression “pound for pound the best” was created, died yesterday morning of natural causes at ...

He held both the welterweight and middleweight championship belts. There's never been another boxer like Sugar Ray Robinson. Robinson is the subject of a new biography by Wil Haygood called Sweet ...

â Muhammad Ali is boxingâ s greatest political icon, but no boxer had a more vivid and lasting impact on American culture than Sugar Ray Robinson. Born as Walker Smith Jr., he bypassed an ...

However, there’s one boxer that not many people know who’s arguably the best pound-for-pound boxer ever: Sugar Ray Robinson (174-19-6). Robinson was well-versed in the boxing world ...

It was early in the professional boxing career of Sugar Ray Robinson, a snowy February day in 1945. Robinson was in Chicago to fight one George Costner, a boxer who liked to call himself ”Sugar.” ...

On December 25, 1950, Sugar Ray Robinson took on Hans Stretz in Frankfurt, Germany. Without any context Robinson’s fifth round knockout win over Stretz reads like a nondescript stay busy ...