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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

"Pound for pound, the best." The claim has been used to describe many boxers, but it was invented for Sugar Ray Robinson. Never mind the weight class. When it came to boxing, Robinson was as good ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Beauty, power, greatness, perfection — Sugar Ray Robinson was the best,” said Sugar Ray Leonard . Take a moment to comprehend the caliber of the men giving Robinson such high prais ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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." ...