Wilfred Benitez dodges a punch from Sugar Ray Leonard in the 1979 WBC Welterweight Title. Benitez, the youngest boxer to ever win a world title, was hospitalized with what is believed to be a stroke : ...

San Juan, Puerto Rico - The boxers of Team Puerto Rico visited his home of a former champion who brought boxing glory to Puerto Rico and the world, Wilfred Benitez, who was made the Honorary Captain ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Retired Puerto Rican boxing great Wilfred Benitez has been hospitalized in the U.S. territory after family members worried he might have suffered a stroke. Yvonne Benitez tells ...

‘The Hitman’ played a key role in one of the sport’s greatest ever eras during the 1980s, where he became a member of ‘The ...

Thomas Hearns fought his way through an era defined by four men – Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, Roberto Duran, and himself.

RIO PIEDRAS, Puerto Rico It was just past noon in Hospital Universitario and the only sound in Room 429 was the faint, periodic beep of an intravenous machine. It was no time for Clara Benitez to let ...

“Sometimes I train good, sometimes I don’t train at all,” the great Wilfred Benitez, widely recognised as the Fifth King, once said. “My father would say, ‘Train’. I would say, ‘No’. But if I train, ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Retired Puerto Rican boxing great Wilfred Benitez has been hospitalized in the U.S. territory after family members worried he might have suffered a stroke. Yvonne Benitez ...