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Sugar Ray Robinson is the best legend of Hall of Fame
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Before the world became acquainted with the nickname “Sugar Ray Ray Robinson”, Walker Smith Jr began a glorious run in amateur boxing. Smith was so good. He graduated from amateur ranks unbeatable, with a record of 85-0 (69 KO), winning an amazing 40 scythe in the first round.
The name “Ray Robinson”, currently a synonym for a goat’s place around the world, appeared when Smith borrowed the amateur friend’s card “Ray Robinson”. Sugar was added when the manager George Gainford watched The Future Great in Action; Impressed what he saw, he said that Robinson was “sweet as sugar.” So the most iconic nickname in boxing was born.
While his amateur trip was brilliant, and the victory over another legend of Willie Pep fell along the Golden Gloves championships – it was Robinson’s race as a professional who really blew up everyone.
Stylistically, Robinson is a complete boxing warrior. The fact that no film material is available from its peaks is a tragedy, but many available films from its average weight battles are proof of the boxing efficiency of experts. It remains one of the most destructive KO punchers, with 109 KO as diverse as any other puncher he has ever seen.
His power was shocking, as the powerful Brawler Gene Fullmer showed perfectly. Robinson released the crunchy left hook without fat during isolation, immediately mutilating the “cyclone”. Rapid combined impacts flowed from his fists as effortless, like any other, their performance is not more observable than when the mouthpiece of Rocky Graziano was blown up in the crowd.
The Perfect Punch technique was not the only tool that conquered two decades. Robinson was also a pretty applicant and boxer master with relentless endurance. For a character as grateful as sugar he had that few could compare. All in all, Robinson fought with world champions, from lithe great Sammy Angott to the lithe king Joey Maxim.
Despite the fact that they usually surpass and wake up with powerful enemies in the killer era, Robinson never took 10 and was detained only once in his entire career. This break was caused by thermal exhaustion, in the ponderous lithe, in the fight Robinson won, in such a balmy place, even the referee was replaced in the middle of the fight.
Hardness, skills, shrewd and power ended in an excellent warrior and for 11 years everyone was perfectly Robinson.

In a series of forms, Hall of Fame Sami, Robinson overthrew masters and Hall of Famers from 135–147 pounds in Marty Servo, Sammy Angott twice, Jake Lamotta, Izzy Janazzo twice and Fritzi Zivic 21, compile a brilliant 40-0 record.
The legendary lethargic lamotta out working and put him in the second fight, handing her first defeat to Ray. Robinson would make him pay in return in the most destructive first year he had ever seen.
For seven years he remained invincible in 91 consecutive fights. So many iconic names in the world of boxing fell to Robinson at his cruel level. Cuban Great Kid Gavilán lost twice, Lamotta four times, and Angott and Jannazzo were beaten again, while Kozi Armstrong’s colleagues tried defeat, although they went through their best.
When Robinson ruled in the World Welter championships in a welterweight, all pretenders fell. So much that he dared to medium weight in search of recent competition, cleaning and kidnapping the crown at 160.
Shortly after throwing Hall of Famer Bobo Bobson in his 115th Robinson’s victory has set up a European concert tour. Among the many other notable locations they were blurred in Paris, Brussels, Geneva, Frankfurt, Zurich and Antwerp. Charisma, grace and personality “Sugar” were moved outside the ring and was a real global star.
A brief flash took place in London, Earls Court, courtesy of the great Randolph Turpin. In one of the biggest British boxing in history and the most iconic victories, Turpin surpassed, developed and exceeded Robinson to pull out the titles of medium weight, ending his colossal undefeated run, which almost established records as the longest in history.
In the first fight Turpin, the Robinson record was stunning 129-1-2 (84 KO). He dominated masters from 135 pounds to 160 pounds, which is equivalent to five divisions in a newfangled context. Although Turpin temporarily brought him back to earth, he showed a stubborn rebellion, which in the coming years will strengthen his heritage. He did not waste time recovering titles with a clear TKO from the 10th round just two months later, once again he took revenge on the man who defeated him.
The decade of domination in the 1940s emphasized the unparalleled superiority, but the 50th was adversity that revealed the extraordinary strength and resistance of Robinson. Vicious Nokuts nad Rocky Graziano and Bobo Olson followed the recovery of the belt before the next jump to a slight weight, which will be to become the champion of three divisions.
Once again, three divisions may not seem to be a unique achievement in newfangled time, but it is crucial to understand the context of this era. At that time, there were no junior divisions or great, so from defeating Angott to Maxima’s fight, Robinson jumped in opposition with an area of 40 pounds, equivalent to the seven division.
In the boiling fire of the Yankee stadium “Sugar Ray” built an advantage on the cards. Before Robinson ultimately is exhausted in round 13, falling on canvas, Judge Ruby Goldstein could no longer last and was replaced by Ray Miller, a shocking reflection of the conditions.
It will stop being the only one Robinson suffered during 201. After losing his ponderous weight, he once again took part in maintaining the title of medium weight, and two successful KO against Olson strengthened him.
The aura of invincibility began to decrease in relation to the raw, larger medium medium weight. Ralph Jones spoke him before Gene Fullmer won the crown in tough 15 rounds. With his back against the wall, Robinson replied in the only way he knew, fighting the man he defeated him.
He immediately converted Fullmer, landing, as many call, “the biggest left hook he had ever thrown” to get the notable KO, once again he avenged his defeat in the rematch to become a four -time medium scale champion. This reign would be his shortest, because the battle of Carmen Basilio tried to imitate Robinson’s multiple success.
Similarly, the former welterweight master, “The Upstate Ation Farmer”, won the next two magazines of the Ring Fight of the Years, absorbing the absurd punishment against Tony de Marco before he prevailed in a gruesome grit show in a classic return.
Then he competed in the next fight of the year against Johnny Saxon, and the couple fought three times in 11 months. After a cruel form in his run in welterweight, Basilio never wanted to let go in the near future and brought Robinson an infernal attack.
The couple organized a brutal 15-round screw, and both men consumed a lot of punishment. Basilio made a great victory. Inevitably Robinson won the rematch, recovering the lanes for the fifth and last time.
Two Robinson’s fights – Basilio were just as violent as any in medium weight history and were the winners of the Fight of the Year award in 1957 and 1958. While Robinson fought the two winners successively, Basilio was in the stunning four fights for four fights for the winner of the year in a row, winning three.

Nobody would envy the war by Basilio, which survived in 1955–1958, incredibly he and Gene Fullmer released the slaughter in Fight of the Year in 1959. Another five fights are a record that will be a time test.
After the fifth medium weight title, Robinson returned from failures in a way that very few imitated. His record was 141-6-2 (91 KO). In the first decade he was unbeatable, and the next decade he got involved in the most iconic struggle of history, he shot the greatest knockout we have in the film and, most importantly, took revenge on every warrior to ever accept his title. 20 years at the summit was recognized as the only warrior in history who won the decade player twice, both in the 1940s and 1950s.
Robinson’s career lasted for the next five years, but he was never the same warrior. Paul Pender caught the Robinson belt for the last time, which was now 38 years elderly. Gene Fullmer gave him a draw and defeat, while Denny Moyer and Brit Terry Downes won further wins, with him at the age of 40. There were still good wins against Greaves, Moyer and Ralph Dupas, but his run at the top ended. 13 out of 19 Robinson’s careers came after his 38th birthday.
Robinson withdrew from sport in 1965 at the age of 44. His farewell struggle was a failure for Joey Archer during 10 rounds. His record was 174-19-6 (109 KO). Robinson scored 21 wins against Hall of Famers during 29 fights – he defeated the following Hall of Famers:
Bobo Olson (4-0 3 KO), Fritzi Zivic (2-0 1 KO), Sammy Angott (3-0), Rocky Graziano (1-0 1 KO), Kid Gavilán (2-0), Henry Armstrog (1 -0), Jake Lamotta (5-1 1 KO), Randolph Turpin (1-1 1 KO), Carmen Basilio (1-1), Gen Fullmer (1-2-1 1 KO).
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Remembering Seaman Arthur Hayes | Boxing news
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March 29, 2025
Before the First World War, there were not many better fighters than Johnny Summers, Freddie WelshOwen Moran, Jim Driscoll and Ted Kid Lewis and one man fought everyone with them. Seaman Arthur Hayes was one of the best groups of fighters at that time who never won the British title, although he approached.
Arthur was a navy boxer before he became a professional in 1904, and in two years he became a leading feather scale. He turned against Johnny Summers, later a British champion in both delicate and welterweight, in the National Sporting Club in 1906, losing a hard-fighting 20-runda in points. The distance of lost meetings with Moran, Welsh (twice) and Lewis also went. Driscoll was the only of these groups of great fighters who detained Hayes, and did it in the 1910 competition with the title of British featherweight. Driscoll simply outclassed his man, then stopped him in the sixth round of a unilateral fight.
Despite this loss, Hayes was still good enough to command immense bags, and his services were very sought after, where he can often be imported to test the abilities of local talents. In this sense, he played a role similar to the role of today’s journeymen, except that Arthur usually won. In September 1912 he went to Manchester to face Allan Porter from Salford in 15-Rund. Arthur was already in Manchester twice this year, stopping both Billy Marchant and Harold Walker in winning competitions, and he was looking for a hat-trick.
Allan Porter is a warrior in which I had long -term interest. In 1912 he laid a decent race, and the fight with Hayes was considered a 50-50 match. Earlier this year, Porter passed with Ted Kid Lewis and since then he won five at trot to start a match with Hayes.
BN informed that “from the fifth round Hayes led a porter from the pillar to post and hit him where and when he liked it. Porter was certainly a game and persevered against hopeless opportunities, but the punishment was so rigid that it causes that the judge intervenes in the returned thirteenth round when he was holding the order.” It was a failure from which the porter would not recover. Ten days later, Porter met George Mackness of Kettering in 10-Rund at the Liverpool stadium, and because Mackness lost the previous five competitions, it was to be uncomplicated for Salford Fighter. Within a minute of the initial Mackness he had solemn problems of the porter, and in the seventh judge stopped the fight because Porter was not able to go to his Gablads because he fell after returning to the corner. Three doctors immediately participated in it and, when responding to treatment, partially revived, but it was believed that it was advisable to be removed to the hospital. “
Later he had a recurrence, fell unconscious and turned out to suffer from brain shock. He finally came the next day in the evening. It was a beating that he suffered from the hands of Arthur Hayes, led to the collapse of this pretty warrior. Within five years, the porter was dead, his body lost forever in the mud of the Western Front.
Seaman Hayes began to question the eliminator of the British featherweight title in 1915, losing to Llewew from Porth, the final master, for the 10th round, and BN stated that “under a hail of blows a brave seam went outside, but with his unexplored spirit as always.” He retired in 1924, the winner of 95 of his 160 professional competitions.
Boxing History
(Compact) History of two British fighting for global heavyweight belts
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March 28, 2025
Lennox Lewis in RSF 7 Frank Bruno
October 1993
Frank Maloney did not bother watching boxing at the 1988 Olympic Games. Why would he? He was not the main promoter, and the warrior, whom everyone wanted to sign, was a Canadian.
Reporters in Las Vegas, including Lloyd Honeyghan-Marlon Starling, discovered the relationship between Maloney and the Olympic champion of heavyweight Lennox Lewis-I called to tell him a message.
“They said,” Imagine how good it would be to have a British heavyweight master? “, Maloney remembered. “I said that there is no more chance because Frank Bruno and Gary Mason were with Mickey Duff.
“But they told me that the heavyweight Olympic champion, Lennox Lewis, came from West Ham and that his brother Dennis knew my brother Eugene. I checked this and it turned out that it was true.
“I was chasing Lennox on the phone. Lennox wanted to come to Great Britain to see his brother and said that if I got two tickets in both directions, he came and saw me. I got a credit card and used her for a limit to get Lennox here.”
Maloney convinced the Sport Management Group, Levitt Group, to give them support. “I told them that the British heavyweight champion would be huge for them,” said Maloney and Lewis, they were crowned WBC Belt-Holder in December 1992 after Riddick Bowe, detained by Lewis in the Olympic final, refused to face.
This made Lewis the first British warrior to organize the version of the heavyweight championship since Bob Fitzsimmons, born in Cornwall and raised in Modern Zealand, lost to James J Jeffries in 1899.
Within 93 years, Tommy Farr, Don Cockell, Brian London, Henry Cooper, Joe Bugner and Frank Bruno lost their challenges.
Bruno was beaten by Tim Witherspoon and Mike Tyson, but he kept his place in public feelings, and most fans rooted for him when he fought with Lewis in “Battle of Britain” at Cardiff Arm’s Park in October 1993.
Bruno had the history of accent and intermittent hop, which spoke to British fans, and in half the point he landed enough to overtake one result card, and the other two judges had the level of fighting.
It seemed, however, that the fight turned around Lewis, and after he shattered Bruno on his chin with his left hook, he did not allow the pretender to recover, with his right hands until the judge jumped.
Herbie hide in Ko 7 Michael Bentt
March 1994
Bentt He was brought to give Tommia Morrison to rusty before he challenged Lewis.
Bentt didn’t even give him one round. The fight lasted within 93 seconds. Morrison fell three times, and Great Britain had another belt owner, although at a time when the WBO belt, especially in heavyweight, was barely respected.
Not so many realized that Bentt was a British.
Bentt spent the first six years of his life, living with his aunt in East Dulwich, before settling in Modern York and represented the United States at the World Championships in 1986, where he defeated the defending master Alexander Yagubkin on his way to the bronze medal.
Batt, beaten in the round in his debut Pro, began to shock Morrison and was a home warrior when he defended the title of WBO from Hide at the home of the Millwall football club, The Den.
Bentt wore a Millwall hat at a press conference – before Hide threw him off his head.
Bentt remembered: “I hit him, grabbed me, torn off a suit, grabbed me, fell to my knees, grabbed me, hit me. It was an ugly mess.”
Hide later stated that Bentt caught his genitals during the “ugly mess” and they were both fined in the amount of 10,000 pounds, John Morris, secretary general of the board, describing them as “two stupid youthful men.”
Only 22 years elderly, Hide was astute enough to know that he must hold Bentt’s right hand.
Bentt could not leave the road to the upper right part in the third round and landed on the floor.
Hide dominated to the finish in the seventh round, Bentt later said: “Everything I tried to have had an answer.
“His rhythm was completely unconventional – and he could hit like an atomic bomb. The guy could crunch.”
Bentt has only vague memories of the fight. Later he was taken to the hospital and spent 98 hours in a coma before full recovery.
Hide was not aware of Bentt’s rush to the hospital when he said the press: “I want you to kill and kiss my ass. I want you to all kill and say:” You are the greatest. ” Because I am. “
Henry Akinwande at PTS 12 Scott Welch
January 1997
Akinwande was hefty weight of Great Britain.
Born in London, he grew up in Nigeria and returned to England as a teenager to continue his boxing career – contrary to his father’s wishes. Gangling Akinwande left Great Britain to Florida after 27 professional fights (one draw), feeling underestimated and together with Don Turner in his corner, he claimed that the free (and still slightly known) style in style, putting Jeremy Williams with a poem right hand in three rounds.
Then came the 10th round of the detention of Aleksander Zolkin in Las Vegas and in the coloration, Welch overtook Daniel Eduardo Neto.
The Argentinean had previously fought for the title of WBO, losing in two rounds with Francesco Damiani and defeating him “The Brighton Rock” a must -see for Akinwande belt.
Welch was against. In the previous 32 fights, no one found a way to defeat Akinwande. Many even fought for a glove on him.
Akinwande had 6 feet 7 inch-the highest boxer in the world-I had an 82-inch range that stopped opponents. Five inches shorter, Welch knew that he was not going to Outbox Akinwande, but a fanal that he could reconcile him.
He tried to start the fight against Akinwande at a press conference and had to be stopped during the judge’s instructions, but after the Akinwande bell departure he was holding the game plan. He got a welch at the end of his stab – and held him there. For 12 rounds
It wasn’t until the fifth round that Welch only achieved significant success. Akinwande felt the strength of his right hand and wrapped him with his arms.
Welch was doing well to go through the sixth and seventh round and stopped the crowd behind him when he attacked the right hook of the 10th round that hit Akinwande’s jaw.
Akinwande took a few steps back, hit the gloves and waved the welch forward. Akinwande made another move, landing crispy to the jaw, and the unilateral competition lasted.
Coach Jim McDonnell pulled out a photo of the two-year-old son Welch, Tommy-Teraz of the invincible professional-the last round and begged: “Do it for him!” But the task was too great and on the last bell only one of the three judges gave the claimant a round.
“I couldn’t raise the pace,” said Welch. “Perhaps it turned out to me.”
Lennox Lewis in DQ 5 Henry Akinwande
July 1997
There were more in Stateline in Nevada than the WBC Lewis belt in Stateline, Nevada.
Two weeks earlier, Mike Tyson was thrown out of his rematch against Evander Holyfield for playing part of the ear and John Morris, secretary general of the British control Council and WBC supervisor, defined the meaning of Lewis-Akinwande for sport.
He said: “This is a fight that can start a novel beginning of heavyweight boxing, show that his spirit and image do not have to be drawn into the gutter.
“This is the first fight since Tyson bit Holyfield’s ear, and Lennox Lewis and Henry Akinwande not only fight for themselves, but for the true meaning of their sport. I know them well and I know that they are good fighters and good people.”
Not everyone in England liked Akinwande.
He said before the fight: “Everywhere I go, except for England, people love to watch me.”
Fans in England could remember the heavyweight final of ABA in 1986, when Akinwande threw himself on the canvas after disqualification against Eri Cardouza of Northampton or his reaction to his exit from the Olympic Games in Seoul from 1988.
Akinwande said: “I didn’t believe in myself. What can I do?”
He also did not talk with great trust in the fight with Lewis, and after Judge Mills Lane told him, who was also responsible for Holyfield-Tyson II, in the opening minute for holding, he lost point second.
Coach Don Turner tried to get some fight from the warrior, telling him: “He strikes you because you don’t hit him,” and in the third round Akinwande hit Lewis with his right right, which made the master’s knee graze the canvas.
Lane later admits that he should count to Lewis, but he got it in the fifth round when he pulled Akinwande out of Lewis, telling him: “That’s all, he left” before he pushed him back to the corner.
Reporters noticed that Akinwande was close to tears at a press conference after the fight.
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It seems that Robert Cohen’s last death passed under the radar in the sports press. This Frenchman won the title of World Bantamweight in 1954, defeating Chamroem Songkitrat in a demanding 15-year-old Bangkok. Cohen, who died at the age of 91 on March 2, had a great record, broken only with defeats in his last three competitions in 1955–1959.
Algeria-Żyd, Cohen survived the persecution of Vichy’s pro-Nazist regime in the French war before he became the eighth boxing champion in this country. It is best to remember him older fans of Great Britain for winning in 1954 on John Kelly, in which he took the European title Bantam in a scale only seven months before the victory of the world title. Kelly won 21 competitions in a row and looked like places. He won the European title, defeating the Scottish demanding man Peter Keenan at points at King’s Hall in Belfast in a very sturdy competition. Kelly’s first defense against Cohen absolutely revealed the lack of experience and defects.
BN header “Cohen annihilated Kelly”, says everything. He reports that “this competition was not as much as punishment, and 20,000 pairs of Irish eyes watched terrified terror, how the Frenchman with the destruction of gloves shattered their idol once, two, six times earlier, fortunately it ended.” Kelly never recovered after this defeat, losing twice as much this year by knockout before retiring three years later at the age of 25.
It was not for the first time that British fans had the opportunity to see Cohen in action. In 1953 he fought twice in Belle Vue, Manchester, winning the victory in the sixth round over Teddy Peckham of Bournemouth, and then beat this great miniature South African, Jake Tuli, at points before the crowd of capacity in 10 times. At that time, Cohen was assessed as a leading claimant for the title of the world, and British fans were impressed.
After the victory over Kelly, Cohen stayed in Great Britain and won two more competitions in April 1954, beating both Eddie Carson and Manny Kid Francis with simple points in two entertainment 10-ranges. During the last competition against the British boxer, Cohen was adapted to the Roy Ankrah in Paris in December 1954, three months after he became the world champion. Ankrah, a highly qualified boxer from Ghana, was a great favorite in Great Britain, but a real reservoir came against the world champion. He was constantly beaten before he retired on the stool after the bell finished the fourth round. BN informed that Cohen was “faster, much more aggressive and extremely capable, perfect fighting machine.”
In 1955, Cohen was involved in boxing policy, almost the same as today. The National Boxing Association deprived him of the title, when within 90 days he did not defend him against Mexico, Raúl Macías within 90 days. The world of boxing was stunned by this decision, no more than NatLeischer, who stated that he wrote the original contract for the fight for the title in Bangkok: “In this it was agreed that the winner would sign the defense of the championship and that the signing would take place within 90 days. Signing, not fighting.”
The Fresh York Sports Committee got stuck with Cohen as a master, and the Frenchman defended his title in September 1955 in Johannesburg against Willie Toweel, a member of a great fighting family, which included Vic, Jimmy and Allan brothers. Cohen dropped his man three times in the second round, but he had to settle for a draw at the end.
The following year, the Frenchman lost the title of world champion in Italy, Mario d’Agata, he was detained in cuts after seven rounds of close fight in Rome. The hereditary little warrior then retired with a record of 36 wins, four losses and three draws in a shiny career and it is unhappy that his passing was by many.

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