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Just before the bout began, the fighters touched gloves. But after their ritual handshake in Chicago's Stadium, not another friendly gesture marred the festivities. Aging (30) Middleweight Champion Carmen Basilio and aged (37) ex-Champion Sugar Ray Robinson were so eager to clobber each other that they both kept swinging after the first round ended. By the time the referee got between them, everybody in the stadium seemed anxious to pitch...
While Robinson was winning back his title with brutal skill for the fourth time in six years (never from the same man), one of his handlers was in Basilio's corner screaming that Carmen's seconds were smearing their boy with doped Vaseline. It took a couple of cops to shut him up. Then an Athletic Commission inspector closed in on Robby and took a suspicious swig from the Thermos bottle that contained the challenger's between-rounds refreshment. (It was only orange juice...
...fight was a "must" for DeMarco, who was knocked out by Akins Oct. 29 in the 14th round. Tony had been world welter king in 1955, but lost by knockouts to Carmen Basilio in a title defense and a later rematch...
...stepping out with an old family friend, Cinemactor Frank Sinatra. Lauren was recently draped on Frankie's arm for the Las Vegas premiere of his new movie The Joker Is Wild, last week went along with him to a closed-circuit telecast of the Sugar Ray Robinson-Carmen Basilio fight in a Hollywood theater from which they emerged looking as happy as if they had bet on Winner Basilio. But though Hollywood gossips buzzed, both Lauren and Frankie denied a wedding is in the wind...
...Sugar Ray Robinson, 37, four-time middleweight champion of the world, earned close to $500,000 for 15 rounds of fist fighting in which he showed an admirable capacity for absorbing punishment and a furious skill at dishing it out. Round after round, Challenger Carmen Basilio, 30, plodded in to belt his man from heart to haircut, and Robinson fired back with deadly effect. Basilio's head bobbed like a light punching bag at the end of Robinson's jackhammer jab. He started the fight sullen with 5 o'clock shadow; he finished looking like...