Sugar Ray Robinson

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Sugar Ray Robinson boxer
Sugar Ray Robinson
Data
Birth Name Walker Smith Junior
Weight class Welterweight
nationality US-american
birthday May 3, 1921
place of birth Ailey , Georgia
Date of death April 12, 1989
Place of death Culver City
style Left delivery
size 1.83 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles 203
Victories 175
Knockout victories 108
Defeats 19th
draw 6th
No value 2

Sugar Ray Robinson (* 3. May 1921 in Ailey , Georgia as a junior Walker Smith ; † 12. April 1989 in Culver City , California) was an American boxer .

Career

Robinson lived in Harlem for most of his 25-year career . As an amateur, his record was 85-0, 69 KOs, 40 of them in the first round.

In the welterweight division he was practically unbeatable. He suffered his first defeat in 1943 in the second fight against Jake LaMotta , who, however, was a middleweight and weighed a few pounds more. In total, he fought against LaMotta five times between 1942 and 1945, winning in four fights.

He won his first world welterweight title on December 20, 1946 in New York against Tommy Bell , who already had him on the ground, in a fight over fifteen rounds.

The world champion in middleweight , he won on February 14, 1951 in Chicago in his sixth fight against Jake LaMotta after the referee had stopped the fight in the thirteenth round. In 1952 he defended his title in Chicago against Rocky Graziano by defeating "Rocky" prematurely in the third round. In June 1952 he also tried to win the world light heavyweight title, but was defeated by world champion Joey Maxim . Robinson gave up the fight, clearly leading on points, exhausted after the thirteenth round. He did not fight a fight for the next three years.

In 1955 Robinson returned to the ring and lost his middleweight title several times at an advanced age, but won it back again and again, for example against Randy Turpin , Carmen Basilio and Gene Fullmer , whom he was able to defeat in one of the most famous KOs in boxing history. In 1965 he finally ended his career and then played in several films, including the star-studded television film At 9 o'clock the earth goes under (1971).

He did not box against several strong opponents of his time, including Charley Burley , in the course of his career. Nevertheless, he is regularly voted the best boxer of all time by boxing magazines such as Ring Magazine . The legends Muhammad Ali , Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Leonard also regard him as such. In 1990 Robinson was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame . 2009 was Edward J. Neil Trophy of the Boxing Writers Association of America in his honor Sugar Ray Robinson Award renamed.

Sugar Ray Robinson was a member of the Masonic Association .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Well Known Freemasons . Grand Lodge of British Columbia AF & AM Retrieved February 13, 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Robinson, Sugar Ray
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, Walker junior (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American boxer
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Ailey , Georgia , USA
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1989
Place of death Culver City , California