Sugar Ray Robinson turned pro in October of 1940, becoming the Welter Weight Champion on Dec. 20, 1946, defeating Tommy Bell. Robinson would hold the title for five consecutive years (1946-1951).

Aside from taking on the likes of Jake LaMotta, Rocky Graziano and Carmen Basillio, Robinson challenged mob control of the fight game in the 1940s and 50s, leading to Senate corruption hearings.

The legendary Sugar Ray Robinson (174-19-6-2 NC, 109 KOs) was born as Walker Smith Jr. in Ailey, Georgia, moving to New York City after his parents separated, which led to him dropping out of ...

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 ...

Half the supply remains at Sugar Prints, 10433 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 90024. Rosenthal now is negotiating the film rights to Sugar Ray`s life.

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.

Robinson returned to New Haven in 1956 to take on Bob Provizzi. Sugar Ray had won the middleweight championship a year earlier. But at 35, he wasn't the same fighter and knew as much.

“Sweet Thunder” (Knopf, 464 pages, $27.95), by Wil Haygood: The boxer Sugar Ray Robinson was a man of glittering skill and deep complexity. So complex, in fact, that several writers &#8… ...

In the early 1930s, the legend goes, a boy named Walker Smith, Jr. watched in wonder as Joe Louis (then a young contender) trained at Detroit's Brewster Wheeler Recreation Center.