One of the side features of a Sugar Ray Robinson championship bout was the magnetic force with which it pulled in the cream of Negro America -- writers, political ward leaders, musicians ...

One man who is often regarded as being the 'GOAT' is late-great heavyweight icon Muhammad Ali, who remains arguably the most ...

Sugar Ray Robinson, generally acknowledged as the greatest boxer in history, the man for whom the expression “pound for pound the best” was created, died yesterday morning of natural causes at ...

Despite the outstanding success of both, retired five-division world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr revealed in an interview ...

They said, he just won, they counted to 10," said former middleweight champion Gene Fullmer about Sugar Ray Robinson on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series. "Pound for pound, the best." ...

â Muhammad Ali is boxingâ s greatest political icon, but no boxer had a more vivid and lasting impact on American culture than Sugar Ray Robinson. Born as Walker Smith Jr., he bypassed an ...

He held both the welterweight and middleweight championship belts. There's never been another boxer like Sugar Ray Robinson. Robinson is the subject of a new biography by Wil Haygood called Sweet ...

However, there’s one boxer that not many people know who’s arguably the best pound-for-pound boxer ever: Sugar Ray Robinson (174-19-6). Robinson was well-versed in the boxing world ...

It was early in the professional boxing career of Sugar Ray Robinson, a snowy February day in 1945. Robinson was in Chicago to fight one George Costner, a boxer who liked to call himself ”Sugar.” ...

On December 25, 1950, Sugar Ray Robinson took on Hans Stretz in Frankfurt, Germany. Without any context Robinson’s fifth round knockout win over Stretz reads like a nondescript stay busy ...

Wilson are taking “Sugar Ray,” a one-man show about legendary boxer Sugar Ray Robinson to an off-Broadway theater. The two conducted rehearsals in December on the FAMU campus as they ...

"Pound for pound, the best." 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 ...