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Apr 30, 2024 · Sugar Ray Robinson, American professional boxer, six times a world champion: once as a welterweight (147 pounds), from 1946 to 1951, and five times as a middleweight (160 pounds), between 1951 and 1960. He is considered by many authorities to have been the best fighter in history.
Sep 23, 2022 · Sugar Ray Robinson had 12 world-title defense fights across two weight classes — welterweight (x5) and middleweight (x7). He won eight of them and lost four times. Following is the table of his successful title defense fights, the next section has the fights where he lost his titles.
Robinson held the world welterweight title from 1946 to 1951, then was the middleweight champion five times between 1951 and 1960. At his peak, his record was 128-1-2 with 84 knockouts.
- Walker Smith, Jr.
- Smitty The Flyweight
- Sugar Ray Robinson
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- Won The Welterweight Belt
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Born Walker Smith Jr. on May 3, 1921, Robinson was the son of Leila (Hurst) and Walker Smith Sr. The Smiths had moved from Dublin, Georgia, to Detroit, Michigan, along with their two daughters, Marie and Evelyn, just weeks before Robinson's birth. In Detroit, Robinson's father worked as a ditch-digger and moonlighted laying sewers. Leila Smith, who...
In June of 1936, at the invitation of Reverend Frederick Cullen, Robinson began to frequent the Salem-Crescent Gym and Athletic Club in the basement of Salem Methodist Church, at 129th Street and 7th Avenue. At the club Robinson learned to box under the guidance of George Gainford, the top man of the time on Harlem's amateur boxing scene. Boxing, a...
Using Ray Robinson's AAU card, Smith Jr. continued to fight on the so-called bootleg circuit. It was a bootleg operation because the fighters, who were presumed to be amateurs, pocketed $10 per win. Still fighting under the alias of Ray Robinson, Smith Jr. picked up the nickname of Sugar when a local sports editor in Watertown, New York, remarked o...
After basic training at Fort Dix, New Jersey, Robinson reported for duty as a corporal and was assigned along with Joe Louisto entertain the troops. It is worthy of note that Robinson, because of his forthright manner and conscientious regard for fair play, successfully accomplished the integration of otherwise segregated troops during those milita...
Robinson racked up a fourth and fifth defeat of LaMotta in February and September of 1945, after which a scheduled title bout between Robinson and world welter-weight champion Marty Servo was cancelled when Servo retired unexpectedly. Robinson subsequently prevailed in a ten-round decision against Angott in March 1946, and that fight proved instrum...
After knockouts of Bernie Miller, Fred Wilson, and Eddie Finazzo, Robinson won a ten-round decision against George Abrams in New York City on May 16, 1947. All were non-title bouts, with Robinson's first welterweight title defense scheduled against Jimmy Doyle on June 24 in Cleveland. On the day of the fight Robinson tried to cancel the bout becaus...
After defeating Fusari and subsequently defending the Pennsylvania middleweight title against Jose Basora and Carl "Bobo" Olson, Robinson spent the final weeks of 1950 on a European tour. On the Continent he fought a series of middleweight opponents and drew an immense following. During the tour he knocked out Jean Stock and Robert Villemain in Par...
Born Henry Jackson, on December 12, 1912, in Mississippi, and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Armstrong was the only boxer ever to hold simultaneous world championship titles in three classifications: featherweight, lightweight, and welterweight. Armstrong boxed professionally in two bouts in 1931, scoring one win, and one loss by knockout. At that ...
Robinson, in his 1969 autobiography, professed to drinking beef blood for vitamin fortification. Perhaps it worked, because he endured a 25-year career, having fought a total of 202 bouts, of which 109 ended in knockout. He won sixty-six by decision, posted six draws and only nineteen losses—with only one loss by knockout. Critics concur that he wa...
Books
Markoe, Arnold, ed., and Kenneth T. Jackson. Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives.New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002. Robinson, Sugar Ray, with Dave Anderson. Sugar Ray.New York: Viking Press, 1969.
Other
"IBHOF/Sugar Ray Robinson." www.ibhof.com/robinson.htm (February 3, 2003). Sugar Ray Robinson: Pound for Pound.Big Fights Inc. (1978) (video). Sketch by G. Cooksey
- Sugar Ray Robinson. Pro career: 1940–1965. Pro record: 174–19–6 with 109 knockouts. Titles: The Ring welterweight champion. Walker Smith Jr., better known as Sugar Ray Robinson, was born in Ailey, Georgia.
- Henry Armstrong. Pro career: 1931–1945. Pro record: 152–22–9 with 100 knockouts. Titles: The Ring welterweight champion. Henry Armstrong was born in Columbus, Mississippi.
- Sugar Ray Leonard. Pro career: 1977–1997. Pro record: 36–3–1 with 25 knockouts. Titles: WBA welterweight champion, two-time WBC welterweight, and two-time The Ring welterweight champion.
- Felix Trinidad. Pro career: 1990–2008. Pro record: 42–3 with 35 knockouts. Titles: WBC welterweight champion and IBF welterweight champion. Felix Trinidad was born in Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
Oct 16, 2021 · Sugar Ray Robinson was a world champion at Welterweight and a five time world champion at Middleweight. An absolute must watch highlights reel of many notable moments in Robinson’s career complete with expert analysis and commentary can be viewed here:
Sugar Ray Robinson (born Walker Smith Jr., May 3, 1921 – April 12, 1989) was considered one of the greatest boxers of all time holding the world welterweight title from 1946 – 1951. He was born in Michigan and was dubbed “pound for pound, the best”.
