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Biography

Name: Sugar Ray Robinson
Variant Name: Walker Smith, Jr.
Birth Date: May 3, 1921
Death Date: April 12, 1989
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
Place of Death: Culver City, California, United States of America
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Male
Occupations: boxer

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Biography of Sugar Ray Robinson
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Sugar Ray Robinson (1921-1989) was one of the first African American athletes who became well-known outside the boxing arena. He was the world welterweight champion from 1946 to 1951, won the middleweight title five times between 1951 and 1960, and has...


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Sugar Ray Robinson , (born Walker Smith Jr. , May 3 , 1921 – April 12 , 1989 ) was a professional boxer. Generally regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time, Robinson's performances at the welterweight and middleweight divisions prompted...


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Robinson, Sugar Ray (1921-1989) Summary
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Sugar Ray Robinson's abilities and accomplishments made him the idol not only of a generation of boxing fans, but of a generation of boxers as well. Muhammad Ali idolized Sugar Ray Robinson. During the decades of the 1940s and 1950s, Robinson...
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Robinson was 85-0 as an amateur with 69 of those victories coming by way of knockout, 40 in the first round. He turned professional in 1940 at the age of 19 and by 1951 had a professional record of 128-1-2 with 84 knockouts. Robinson held the world...


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The Washington Post
Pound for Pound, Sugar Ray Robinson Was Sweetest
04/13/1989: 912 words, approx. 3 pages
There was a sadness in the news that came out of that hospital room in Los Angeles yesterday. They said Sugar Ray Robinson had died. He was 67 years old, beset by many illnesses. But for those with the memories, there still is a...
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The Washington Post
Sugar Ray Robinson; The Boxer, In the Ring And Out
12/06/1998: 645 words, approx. 2 pages
Sugar Ray Robinson was to boxing what Ted Williams was to hitting a baseball, what Charlie Parker was to jazz, and what color was to television. He was handsome, arrogant, charismatic and such a brilliant fighter that he inspired the phrase "pound for pound,...
 


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