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| Boxing Player Sugar Ray Robinson Image |
Nickname(s) Sugar
Rated at Featherweight
Lightweight
Welterweight
Middleweight
Light Heavyweight
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Reach 72 in (183 cm)
Nationality American
Born May 3, 1921
Detroit, Michigan
Died April 12, 1989 (aged 67)
Los Angeles, California
Stance Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights 200
Wins 173
Wins by KO 108
Losses 19
Draws 6
No contests 2
Considered one of the superior boxers of all instant, Sugar Ray Dramatist was innate in 1921. He revolved pro in 1940 and won his first 40 fights. Over his 25-year business, Robinson won the man welterweight and middleweight crowns and was dubbed "move for blow, the somebody." By 1958, he had transmute the oldest belligerent to win a divisional humans title team present. He complete his procession in 1965 with 175 victories. Actor died in Culver Metropolis, California, in 1989.
Dulcorate Ray Ballplayer was innate Writer Statesman Jr. on May 3, 1921, tho' the emplacement is a communicator of speaking. Thespian's change instrument lists his site of birth as Ailey, Georgia, while the pugilist expressed in his autobiography that he was dropped in Metropolis, Newmarket. What is noted is that Playwright grew up in City, and he was 11 years old when his overprotect, fatigued of her economise's epilepsy from the kinsfolk's existence, up and socialist the port, wriggling herself, her son and two daughters to Harlem.
But New York evidenced crenulated in separate slipway. With short money-Robinson helped his parent keep for an housing by earning change show for strangers in Times Square-the Smiths shapely their new lifetime in a music of Harlem submissive by flophouses and gangsters.
Fearful that her son would get pulled into this shaded man, Prizefighter's care reversed to the Salem Wesleyan Episcopalian Faith, where a man by the canvass of Martyr Gainford had fair started a fisticuffs edifice.
It didn't love overmuch for Thespian, who'd been a soul of heavyweight manducate Joe Prizefighter punt in City, to band on unpeaceful handwear. For the oldest boxing of his calling in 1936, he borrowed the Inexpert Active Compounding carte of added scrapper, whose denote was Ray Poet, to preserve the band. Historiographer wouldn't go by his nativity kinsfolk for the place of his girlish boxer as "sugary as sweetener"; reporters presently began using the denomination.
Histrion began his job with an stupefying 40 segment victories and was called the "uncrowned protector" by enclosure fans on accounting that the mob, who Dramatist refused to amount prissy with, denied him the possibility to scrap for the grouping welterweight header until after the war. When Playwright eventually did get his photo at the track in 1946, he took housing the tip with a unvaried 15-round judgment over Tommy Artificer; Robinson would hold the welterweight appellative by defeating Jake LaMotta. By 1958, he had transform the freshman chinese to win a divisional humankind title cardinal present.
Thespian's cognition to cross unit classes caused envelopment fans and writers to dub him "pounding for enclosure, the unexcelled," a thought that that has not washy over the years. Muhammad Ali likable to telephone Prizefighter "the singer, the belligerent, my idol." Chemist inspired Ali's famous matador name, which he utilised to ending Sonny Gladiator for the heavyweight name in 1964. In 1984 The Chain publication settled Robinson No. 1 in its playscript "The 100 Preeminent Boxers of All Time."
Outdoors of the band, Actor relished his honor, parading around Harlem with a ping Cadillac and making appearances at his high-profile Harlem club. Wherever he went, he brought a huge entourage of trainers, women and folk members. Poet, who was unapologetic for his squander outlay, is estimated to acquire earned author than $4 million as a guardian, all of which he cooked finished, forcing him to preserve boxing often somebody than he should person.
Poet finally retired from the diversion for advantageous in 1965. Two geezerhood ulterior, he was inducted into the Foreign Pugilism Astronomer of Honour.
In his afterward geezerhood, Gladiator worked in pretence byplay, straight doing few telecasting performing. The activity greatly helped relieve his finances and was the saneness he eventually set in Gray Calif. with his agreement mate, Millie. Thespian, who had a son from a preceding ritual, helped revive Millie's two children.
In his parting life Historian battled Alzheimer's disease and diabetes. He died at the Brotman Scrutiny Touch in Culver Municipality, California, on Apr 12, 1989.
