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    Sugar Ray Robinson: Fighting Toward Transcendence
    NPR 2 months ago

    In the eighth round, LaMotta got the better of Robinson. "Sugar Ray was coming up out of a crouch," Haygood says. "Jake LaMotta saw an an opening — Sugar Ray's chin — and he threw every inch, every muscle, every pound of extra weight and power into Sugar Ray...

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    Don't count out Mosley against Mayweather
    Southern CA Press-Enterprise 1 hour ago

    But in 1974, it was Ali who found the antidote for Foreman's seeming invincibility. Ali won by knockout in the eighth. Need another example? Let's go to the lower weight classes. Back in 1951, the great Sugar Ray Robinson traveled to London to defend his middleweight... Full Article at Southern CA Press-Enterprise

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    JEFF POWELL'S BOXING COLUMN: Give it up! Roach refuses to help Hatton
    Daily Mail - UK 6 hours ago
    Joshua Clottey is powerless to stop Manny Pacquiao

    My father's solution to that was to smuggle me into the building through an alley-way door he had left unlocked while working there as a scaffolder. What an introduction to big-time prizefighting for a nine-year-old. In 1951, Sugar Ray Robinson was beyond... Full Article at Daily Mail - UK

  3. Abraham vs. Dirrell: Andre won’t let Arthur get his shots off
    BoxingNews24.com 2 days ago

    Dirrell will not be running from Abraham, just as Dirrell wasn’t running against WBC super middleweight Carl Froch in their stage 1 Super Six tournament fight on October 17th in Froch’s home city of Nottingham, England. Froch fans, who may not be used to... Full Article at BoxingNews24.com

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    Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr are ready — just not for each other
    Times Online 3 days ago
    Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines

    Arum is close to finalising arrangements for Yuri Foreman, a New York-based Israeli, to defend his WBA light-middleweight title against Miguel Cotto at the new Yankee Stadium in New York. The old stadium hosted such greats as Sugar Ray Robinson and the famed... Full Article at Times Online

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    'I found more sportsmen in boxing than anywhere else'
    Irish Times 6 days ago

    FANS/ULICK O'CONNOR, WRITER 81 BOXING: The dignity of those he met during an unbeaten career of 25 fights made a lasting impression on the renowned Dubliner What weight class were you? I was a welterweight. What style of boxer were you? I was very much a straight... Full Article at Irish Times

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  1. This African-American man was leaning on a pink car and said, ‘Hi, baby,’ ... And she said, ‘Hi, Sugar, this is my granddaughter.’ She later told me it was Sugar Ray Robinson.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 1 week ago
  2. I take my hat off to Sugar Ray Robinson, and Muhammad Ali, and Sugar Ray Leonard, all the legendary champions. But I gave the sport of boxing my whole life to be the best, and I feel I earned the right to say that I’m the best fighter that ever lived. And I proved myself and I think that they say that w...
    SOURCE: BoxingNews24.com 1 week ago
  3. Tommy's lineage can be traced back to Joe Louis (Arena) ... The arena and town have such a rich fight history with the Brown Bomber, Sugar Ray Robinson, Hearns and others coming from and fighting in Detroit.
    SOURCE: USA Today 2 weeks ago
  4. Everything Jake LaMotta represented, Sugar Ray Robinson found crude.
    SOURCE: NPR 2 months ago
  5. Everything that Sugar Ray Robinson represented, Jake LaMotta hated
    SOURCE: NPR 2 months ago

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