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Today in Sports History : Sugar Ray Robinson Wins, Again
On this day in 1958, Sugar Ray Robinson became the first boxing champ to win five titles [middleweight].
To commemorate the record-setting achievement, we found a whole bunch of facts about Robinson. Here are, in our opinion, the five most interesting ones:
At age 14, he tried to enter a boxing tournament but did not have the required Amateur Athletic Union membership card. He...
Nonito Donaire is the top boxer of 2012
The Boxing Writers Association of America have picked their top fighter in 2012 and his name is Nonito Donaire. Donaire, known to fans as the “Filipino Flash,” has been voted the “Sugar Ray Robinson Fighter of the Year” by the association. The Filipino Flash moved up in weight and added four wins to his record, [...]
Top 5 middleweights of the 1950s
Sugar Ray Robinson Rules a Middleweight Golden Age in the 1950sWhat with Sugar Ray Robinson generally considered the greatest middleweight of all time, and his heyday being the 1950s, here's my list of the five best middleweights of that decade. There's been no shortage of great middleweights prior to the '50s -- Harry Greb, for instance -- as well as since (the...
'Sugar' Ray Robinson Leads New York State Boxing Hall Of Fame Inaugural Class of Inductees
The newly-founded New York State Boxing Hall of Fame ("NYSBHOF"), sponsored by Ring 8, held a press conference today at famed Gallagher's Steakhouse in Manhattan to announce its inaugural class of inductees.
The late, great "Sugar" Ray Robinson, arguably the greatest boxer of all-time, leads a star-studded list of 12 boxers and eight non-participants who...
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October 25, 2011
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Vintage Sugar Ray Robinson Training Video
Imagine what athletes of the past could do with the medicines and training methods of today. This is why doing the whole, who would win in a fight, or who is better, really doesn't work out. Check out what Sugar Ray Robinson did to get prepared for a fight:
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