“He got the message.” He had barely showered before the promoters were guessing that an outdoor bout this summer between Robinson and Carmen Basilio, the free-swinging welterweight ...

Robinson’s fights with Carmen Basilio were great, great fights. But the fights between Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta, you cannot imagine how vicious those fights were, all six of them.

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In 1957, he was in hot water because of an article about Queen Elizabeth II. Mike Wallace hosts Carmen Basilio (b. 1927), boxer (56-16-7), who was World Welterweight Champion and then World ...

When mezzo Aigul Akhmetshina stepped on stage in the Met’s new production of CARMEN, back on New Year’s Eve of 2023, it was ...

Details of the Inavoo detdet, made by Boi Bongayan Bayawan, now owned by her great-granddaughter Sikami. It passed to Sikami ...

If the Carmen didn’t quite make Akhmetshina the Met star Gelb ... she enjoyed tricking Bartolo and Basilio. All in all, this was Akhmetshina’s true arrival at the Met and one that should cement her as ...

A new tenor is in town. In her Met role debut, mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina was an equally dazzling Rosina, full of fun ...