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Sugar Ray Robinson was so good, he turned his beaten opponents into stars, including Jake La Motta, the “ Raging Bull,” who retired to Bisbee before his 2017 death.
Floyd Mayweather and Sugar Ray Robinson are often compared as two of boxing’s all-time greats, but Mike Tyson has a clear ...
It was when Sugar Ray Robinson defeated Jimmy Doyle (42-7-3) to retain his World Welterweight Title. However, there was a darker matter at hand and it involved Doyle.
In 1946, the year Robinson finally won the welterweight title, he fought 16 times. In 1947, he fought ten times. In 1948, he had somewhat of a quiet year, fighting five times, before fighting 13 ...
He does not go for it. Robinson went for it. Sugar Ray Leonard went for it. This guy is from the Floyd Mayweather Jnr school of safety-first fighting, but he is not in Pretty Boy’s class.
Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, and Mike Tyson, legends in the realm of boxing, all concur that "Sugar" Ray Robinson stands atop the sport as the all-time greatest. Boxing enthusiasts continue to ...
In an old interview, he said: “Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest fighter that ever lived.” After a monumental professional career, Robinson announced his retirement from the sport in 1965.
Sugar Ray Robinson's boxing career is unparallelled. He fought professionally for a generation, from 1940 to 1965. In his first 128 bouts he lost only once, and amassed an astounding 84 knockouts.
Florida A&M University professor Luther D. Wells and alumnus Reginald L. Wilson are taking “Sugar Ray,” a one-man show about legendary boxer Sugar Ray Robinson to an off-Broadway theater.
French reporters were goggle-eyed when World Welterweight Champion “Sugar Ray” Robinson ambled into Paris’ Claridge Hotel on the Champs-Elysées last November. Following the coffee-colored ...
On Oct. 27, 1953, retired middleweight boxing champion “Sugar Ray” Robinson headlined two shows at the Mosque. Robinson turned to dancing and singing when he stopped boxing in 1952 but resumed ...