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When Boxing Was King: Reliving America's Golden Age in the Ring
Step back into the 1950s and 60s, when boxing reigned supreme in America. Legends like Rocky Marciano and Sugar Ray Robinson ...
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The sugar in the sweet science
The claim has been used to describe many boxers, but it was invented for Sugar Ray Robinson ... as 1997, Robinson was renamed the best of all time -- "pound for pound" -- when The Ring magazine ...
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When Boxing Legend Sugar Ray Robinson Risked His Life to Deny Mafia Hitman’s Offer to Throw a Fight
In return, the mafia delivered the title fight LaMotta had longed for. He won the middleweight championship in 1949 against Marcel Cerdan. That said, both Sugar Ray Robinson and Jack Lamotta faced ...
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The sugar in the sweet science
The claim has been used to describe many boxers, but it was invented for Sugar Ray Robinson. Never mind the weight class. When it came to boxing, Robinson was as good as it got. In 1997 ...