Sugar Ramos dies

Sugar Ramos, the Cuban featherweight champion who won two fights which led to his opponents’ deaths, has died in Mexico City. He was 75. The World Boxing Council said he died Sunday of cancer. Ramos was best known for his 1963 fight at Dodger Stadium with Davey Moore in which he first won the featherweight title. Ramos was battered by the champion in the early rounds but came back to stop him in the 10th. Moore left the ring on his own but lost consciousness in his dressing room and went into a coma. He died two days later, sparking an outcry about the safety of boxing. California Gov. Edmund Brown called for the sport to be banned. Bob Dylan later memorialized the bout in the song “Who Killed Davey Moore.” Five years earlier in Cuba, Ramos stopped a fighter named Jose

Blanco, who also died. Ramos’ real name was Ultiminio Ramos. He lived in Mexico after fleeing Cuba.

Chris Froome retook control of the Spanish Vuelta with a solid run in a stage won by Belgian rider Sander

Armee on Thursday. Froome struggled in the difficult climb of Los Machucos on Wednesday, losing 42 seconds to his challengers, but he recovered with a strong charge in the final climb of the 105-mile stage from Suances to Camaleno in northern Spain. The Tour de France winner increased his overall lead to 1 minute, 37 seconds over Vincenzo Nibali of Italy. Wilco Kelderman of the Netherlands is third, more than two minutes behind Froome. Giovanni Visconti of Italy was third, 46 seconds behind Armee. Today, riders will travel 93 miles from Caso to Gijon in the Asturias. They will face the San Martin mountain pass, which has difficult slopes and could shake up the overall standings.