His uncle Basilio, watching from ringside, said: " Billy winning the world title is the best thing ever to happen in my life, even better than me winning the world title.

Defending himself, Chaliapin said in an interview that Basilio ' is a Spanish priest.

The film follows Tommy Basilio ( Buscemi ), an alcoholic and fixture at the local bar, Trees Lounge, who begins to float after losing his girlfriend and his job as a mechanic.

However, the title went to welterweight Carmen Basilio.

Later that year, he lost his title to Basilio in a rugged 15 round fight in front of 38, 000 at Yankee Stadium, but regained it for a record fifth time when he beat Basilio in the rematch.

After that, Basilio was once again the number one challenger, and on June 10 of that year, he received his second world title try, against world Welterweight champion Tony DeMarco.

Basilio had two non title bouts, including a ten round decision win over Gil Turner, before he and DeMarco met again, this time with Basilio as the defending world champion.

For his next fight, in 1956, Basilio lost the title in Chicago to Johnny Saxton by a decision in 15.

During the 1970s, his nephew Billy Backus became world's welterweight champion after having a shaky start to his own boxing career, and Basilio declared on the day that Backus became champion, that to him, Billy winning the title was better than when he won it himself.

In 1953, Gavilan retained the title by a knockout in ten against Chuck Davey, by a decision in 15 against Carmen Basilio and by a decision in 15 against Bratton.

* June 29-Gene Fullmer retains the NBA world Middleweight title with a twelfth round knockout of Carmen Basilio, at Salt Lake City.

* December 10-After a ceremony to honor Sugar Ray Robinson for his retirement ( featuring former Robinson rivals Carmen Basilio, Gene Fullmer, Carl Olson and Randy Turpin ), Emile Griffith retains his world Welterweight title with a fifteen round decision over Mexican-American Manuel Gonzalez, in the first fight ever to be shown in color on television.

* September 18-Kid Gavilan retains his world Welterweight title with a fifteen round split decision over Carmen Basilio, Syracuse.

* November 30-In a rematch, Carmen Basilio retains his world Welterweight title by knocking out former world champion Tony DeMarco in the twelfth round, at Boston.

* March 14-Johnny Saxton regains the world Welterweight title with a fifteen round unanimous decision over Carmen Basilio, at Chicago.

* September 12-Carmen Basilio regains the world Welterweight title with a ninth round knockout over Johnny Saxton, in Syracuse.

* February 21-Carmen Basilio retains his world Welterweight title with a second round knockout of former world champion Johnny Saxton in their rubber match, at Cleveland.

* June 5-Virgil Akins wins the world Welterweight title that had been vacated by Carmen Basilio, knocking out Vince Martinez in four rounds, at St. Louis.

* August 28-Gene Fullmer wins the National Boxing Association's world Middleweight title, after the division had been vacated by Sugar Ray Robinson's retirement, with a fourteenth round knockout over Carmen Basilio, at San Francisco.

Fullmer and fellow former middleweight champion Carmen Basilio fought for the vacant NBA title on August 28, 1959, and Fullmer won the crown when he TKOed Basilio in the 14th round.

The referee scored the fight for Basilio 69 – 64, and was booed loudly by the crowd of 19, 000 when his decision was announced.

He and Cunningham had three more fights during that period, with Basilio winning by knockout in two on their second meeting, Cunningham by a decision in eight in their third and Basilio by decision in eight in their fourth.

In the middle of that 24 bout span, 1950 rolled over, and Basilio met former world champion Lew Jenkins, winning by a 10 round decision.

For his next seven bouts, Basilio only went 3-3-1, but he was able to avenge his loss to Giosa by winning a ten round decision over him in Syracuse.

Basilio lost a 15 round decision to Gavilan and went for a fourth meeting with Cunningham, this time winning by a knockout in four.

In 1954, Basilio went undefeated in eight bouts, going 7-0-1 with 2 knockouts, and defeating Langois in their rematch by decision.

1955 arrived and Basilio began by beating Peter Müller by decision.

* September 23-Carmen Basilio won the World Middleweight Championship by a 15 round decision over Sugar Ray Robinson.

* September 23-Carmen Basilio becomes the world's Middleweight champion by defeating Sugar Ray Robinson by a fifteen round split decision, at New York.

* March 25-Sugar Ray Robinson breaks his own record, becoming world Middleweight champion for the fifth time by defeating Carmen Basilio with a fifteen round split decision, at Chicago.

This was because in 1448, while Skanderbeg was victoriously fighting off the Turkish invasions, three military columns, commanded by Demetrio Reres along with his sons Giorgio and Basilio, were dispatched to help Alfonso V defeat the barons of Naples who had rebelled against him.

Carmine Basilio ( born April 2, 1927 ) better known in the boxing world as Carmen Basilio, is an American former professional boxer who was a two weight world boxing champion.

For fight number 25, it was decided that it was time to campaign out West so Basilio went to New Orleans, where he boxed his next six fights.

Basilio's left eye was totally swelled shut from the 6th round on and still many of the ringside press thought Basilio won this second fight.

Basilio, who was also a member of the United States Marine Corps at one point of his life, was able to enjoy his retirement.

Basilio was interviewed for an HBO documentary on Sugar Ray Robinson called " The Dark Side Of A Champion ".

On July 11, 1926, Meyer was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Basilio Pompilj, at the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva.

One of his last performances at this house was as the Barber of Seville's Basilio, a bass role.

Carmen Basilio was the first world champion for whom Dundee acted as a cornerman when Basilio defeated Tony DeMarco for the world welterweight crown and later Sugar Ray Robinson for the world middleweight crown.

Although " Eres un enfermo " was the first single they released, they previously worked as chorus girls for many singers like El Fary, Paulina Rubio, Los Del Río, Paloma San Basilio, José Vélez, Tam Tam Go, Camilo Sesto and Sergio Dalma, among others.

It has been a contemporary rate that was born for 26 years in the city of Cartagena de Indias ( Colombia ) with a great influence of palenque San Basilio and which through the encounter of Music of the Caribbean of the, years 80 that were made in Cartagena it extended soon at national level and influenced reciprocally in similar international sorts like the Reggaeton.

Seized by the Japanese were civilians like Victor Salang and his daughter, Maria Salang, Matias Manlangit, Basilio Sahidsahid and Gregorio Rebuta.