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He held both the welterweight and middleweight championship belts. There's never been another boxer like Sugar Ray Robinson. Robinson is the subject of a new biography by Wil Haygood called Sweet ...
Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, and Mike Tyson represent three of the popular answers when fans or pundits - or fighters - name ...
Roy Jones Jr believes there is just one fighter who ranks higher than the legendary Sugar Ray Robinson. Regarded by many as ...
However, there’s one boxer that not many people know who’s arguably the best pound-for-pound boxer ever: Sugar Ray Robinson (174-19-6). Robinson was well-versed in the boxing world ...
They said, he just won, they counted to 10," said former middleweight champion Gene Fullmer about Sugar Ray Robinson on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series. "Pound for pound, the best." ...
But to talk middleweights and say “he’s as good as Sugar Ray Robinson” is blasphemy. Robinson, who died last Wednesday at age 67, was the best. He will always be the best. He was a man ...
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1982 painting depicting one of the world’s greatest boxers, Sugar Ray Robinson, is expected to fetch in the region of US$35 million at an upcoming auction in New York.
Walker Smith Jr., also known as Sugar Ray Robinson, is regarded as one of the greatest boxers in the history of the sport. The Detroit-born American competed as a professional in 1940 and retired ...
On December 25, 1950, Sugar Ray Robinson took on Hans Stretz in Frankfurt, Germany. Without any context Robinson’s fifth round knockout win over Stretz reads like a nondescript stay busy ...
Boxing has a 'greatest of all time' debate that is fiercely argued, but Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali both believe one man stands head and shoulders above the rest ...