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  After losing to Gene Fullmer for the second time in a row on March 4, 1961, most of the boxing world was urging Ray to retire. Robinson had no choice but to continue on, simply because he was broke. When Ray did return to the ring on September 25, 1961 in Detroit against a […]

 Ray Robinson traveled to the Boston Garden on January 22, 1960 to defend his middleweight crown against a local boxer named Paul Pender. The bout was an evenly matched fight, which saw Pender win a split-decision 15 round victory. Looking back, I don’t know why they would give the nod to an unknown, and take

   After Ray regained the middleweight title from Gene Fullmer on May 1, 1957, he traveled to Yankee Stadium four months later to take on the challenge of Carmen Basilio. Basilio won a close, split 15 round decision in Ring Magazine’s ‘Fight of the Year.’ Six months later, Sugar Ray avenged the loss at Chicago

  After going to Europe to tap dance in revues, Sugar Ray returned to the ring on January 5, 1955 against Joe Rindone at Olympia Stadium in Detroit, Michigan. Ray won with a sixth round knockout in the first fight on his comeback quest to regain the middleweight crown. Ray suffered a huge setback when

   Sugar Ray won his first welterweight title against Tommy Bell in 1946, and held it for five years, until 1951. He then moved up the middleweight division, and won it on February 14a t Chicago Stadium in Chicago against Jake LaMotta. In what became known as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Ray stopped LaMotta

    Ray Robinson was born Walker Smith, Jr. on May 3, 1921 in Alley, Georgia, and moved to Detroit, Michigan as a youth. At age 12, his parents separated, and he moved to Harlem with his mother. Ray quit high school in ninth grade to focus on boxing instead, At 14, Ray tried to

 Here is my List of my All-Time Least Favorite Fighters.

    This is My List of my All-Time Favorite Fighters 1. George Foreman 2. Sugar Ray Leonard 3. Michael Spinks 4. Canelo Alvarez 5. Larry Holmes 6. Roy Jones Jr. 7. Thomas Hearns 8. Lennox Lewis 9. Sugar Ray Robinson 10. Archie Moore                        

After his decision win over Glenwood Brown in July of 1998, Vinny returned to action on November 6 against Arthur Allen at the Foxwoods Resorts in Connecticut. He won a 10 round unanimous decision, his second in a row, and a good way to end the year. Vinny won a string of three bouts over

  After his one-sided loss to Roy Jones, Jr. on June 24, 1995, Vinny Pazienza stayed out of the ring for more than a year. He finally returned to action on August 23 in Atlantic City against Dana Rosenblatt on pay-per-view. I couldn’t help but think how different watching this one was as opposed to