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When people think of legendary boxers, names like Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, and Joe Frazier come to mind. These fighters set the standard for what boxing is today, inspiring numerous fighters to ...
(See Cover) For the professional boxer, fight day is a solemn day, and World Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson takes it as solemnly as lesser men. There are no high jinks, none of the footloose ...
A victory for Crawford would see him become the first male fighter in boxing history to become undisputed in three divisions, ...
"Sugar" Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta had one of boxing's fiercest rivalries, pitting two very different men against each other and the mob in a wild, corrupt, and deeply memorable period of boxing ...
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 school ...
If youâ ve heard somebody use the phrase â pound for pound,â if youâ ve marveled at an athleteâ s entourage, if you know who the singer Mark McGrath is, then you know a little something about Sugar ...
Bobby Dykes, 77, a boxer in the 1940s and ‘50s who fought Kid Gavilan and Sugar Ray Robinson, died Wednesday of Lou Gehrig’s disease at his home in Coral Gables, Fla., his son-in-law Harry Roberts ...
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. The two ...
A film based on the life of legendary boxer Sugar Ray Robinson is in the works. Haygood has been tapped to write the script for the project, which will centre on the life and career of Robinson, the ...