Frankfurt, Germany, Dec. 24, 1950: Welterweight boxing champion Sugar Ray Robinson is interviewed after arriving by train in Frankfurt for his Christmas night fight against Hans Stretz. At right are ...

Chief program officer Margie J. Reese looks through photos of boxer Sugar Ray Robinson in the Sepia magazine collection in the archive storage of the African American Museum at Fair Park in Dallas on ...

He briefly mentored Don King and promoted fighters both well-known (like Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Robinson) and obscure. The fight promoter Don Elbaum in an undated photo. “Don knew more than anyone ...

Hailed by Muhammad Ali as "the king, the master, my idol," Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest boxer America had seen since Joe Louis and is considered by many today to be, pound for pound, the best ...

Prologue : Round midnight -- 1921-1942 : Say goodbye to Walker Smith Jr. -- 1943-1944 : Sugar Ray's uniform -- 1945-1946 : Esquire men -- A lovely setup for the old man -- 1947 : Killer -- 1942-1951 : ...