Except, usually, the athlete has won beforehand. We saw a twist on the post-competition proposal Saturday night as boxer Carmine Tommasone proposed to his girlfriend in the ring following a ...

Giardello, whose real name is Carmine Tilelli, contended the film portrayed ... the makers of the movie that billed itself as the true story of a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder.

The 5-foot-10, 160-pound boxer captured the middleweight title ... and his life outside the ring was marked by colorful episodes. Born Carmine Tilelli in Brooklyn, N.Y., on July 16, 1930, he ...