Editing Carmen Basilio (section)

===Decline===
[[File:Carmen Basilio 1958.jpg|thumb|Basilio against Robinson in 1958]]
[[File:Carmen Basilio 1960.jpg|thumb|Basilio testifies to U.S. Senate about mafia in 1960]]
In 1958, he and Robinson met in a rematch on March 25 and Robinson barely regained the title with a controversial 15-round split decision. The judges scored 71 to 64,5  and 72 to 64 Robinson while the referee scores 66 to 69 Basilio. Although Basilio's left eye was totally swollen shut from the 6th round on, many of the ringside press thought Basilio won the fight.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

From that moment, and until his retirement in 1961, he fought only sporadically, but three of his last fights were attempts to recover the world middleweight title, losing twice to [[Gene Fullmer]]: by a TKO in 14 at [[San Francisco]] and by a TKO in 12 in Fullmer's home state of [[Utah]] (in [[Salt Lake City]]), and also later, when he lost a 10-round decision to defending world champion [[Paul Pender]].

In between those fights, he was able to beat [[Art Aragon]], by knockout in eight and former world welterweight champion [[Don Jordan]] by decision in ten. His fight with Pender for the title was also his last fight as a professional boxer.