Gone were the gaudiest characters—the clowning dwarf, the private golf pro, the personal barber—who had ridden the coattails of the champ. When Sugar Ray Robinson arrived in Chicago last week, a ...

Hawaii’s Carl (“Bobo”) Olson and England’s Randy Turpin have much in common. Both are 25-year-old middleweights who learned their fighting in slum streets, both have been boxing since their early ...