Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Sugar Ray The Sugar Ray Robinson Story by Dave Anderson How tall is Sugar Ray Robinson. Boxing fan 07 said on 18/Jun/19 I say 5’11”. Definitely had an advantage against the short Lightweights when he competed in that division. Rob how tall do you think Jake LaMotta was ? MJKoP said on 22/Jun/18 Arch Stanton said on 29/Aug/14 First time I realized there was actually two Sugar Rays :-) Three, if you count Mark McGrath. :P. Junior31 said on 24/Sep/14 ArjunaKorale says on 19/Sep/14 Junior31: You say that you have met Mayweather Jnr & say that he is above 5 ft 7, but he's not quite 5 ft 8! So, then what I say is right - he's more like 5 ft 7.5 inches (171cm), right! Besides, who really cares about Mayweather? I for one, don't - the guy just wants to make money & his fighting heart would have been found v wanting against fighters like Robinson. As a boxer myself I'm not big on comparing fighters from 60 years ago to today simply because there's been so many advancements in training and nutrition and aspects of the sport. I think sugar Ray Robinson is easily the best ever lb for lb but to say a man who has made a half a billion dollars from the sport isn't talented is ridiculous Skill wise floyd is up there and if you know him personally as I do a lot what of what he does is for the cameras. Nobody works harder then he does who has been fighting for 30 years. He will go down as one of the best ever easily. I was at the maidana fight this past weekend and went to Floyd's moms house the day after to watch the replay with him. He admitted he was getting hit with punches he shouldn't have. He could of just had an off night or Father Time is catching up with his reflexes. Voiceless Dental Fricative said on 4/Sep/14 Did Robinson cut weight when we was fighting at 147? Most modern fighters at 147 have functional weights of about 160 (e.g. Amir Khan). I don't know if in Robinson's day they cut to the same extent. Junior31 said on 4/Sep/14 ArjunaKorale says on 2/Sep/14 @Mid190s: Mayweather has never in his life been 5 ft 8 (173 cm) barefoot! More likely a full inch below i.e. 170 cm, though I can even see 171 cm for him. Have met him a few times and stood next to him in boxing shoes, Mayweather is not 5'7 flat he's not quite 5'8 but close to it. 5'7.5 is his floor I'd peg him 5'7.75. Mid190s said on 1/Sep/14 I cant believe he was so tall! He fought at the same weight class(147) as Mayweather who is only 5'8! Amaze said on 28/Aug/14 5'8 and 85lbs. That is stick stick super thin skinny. I was 5'6 and 90lbs. That was very very exrremely bad and he was worse.. Damn! SUGAR RAY ROBINSON STORY (Hardcover, 1998) The lowest-priced item that has been used or worn previously. 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Muhammad Ali once called him ""the king, my master, my idol""--and indeed, he was the idol of everyone who had anything" Book Synopsis. The Sugar Ray Robinson story, like most true-life fables, is often incredible. But it is, withal, a very human story--a story of poverty and riches, success and failure, pride and humility, good and bad.-- New York Times Book Review. Sugar Ray Robinson (1921-1989) was hailed as the finest boxer to ever enter a ring. Muhammad Ali once called him the king, my master, my idol--and indeed, he was the idol of everyone who had anything to do with boxing. But for African Americans, he was more than a great boxer. In an era when blacks were supposed to be humble and grateful for favors received, he was a man whose every move in and out of the ring showed what black pride and power meant. Sugar Ray grew up during the Depression in the ghettos of Detroit and New York, rose through the amateur boxing ranks, became Golden Gloves champion at the featherweight at the age of eighteen, and become world welterweight champion in 1946 and middleweight in 1951. Robinson had it all, but later lost it all; and in this classic autobiography he tells it all with remarkable candor. Here is Sugar Ray: the dazzlingly handsome champion with a craving for fast cars and fast living; the kid who was terrified of elevators; the young GI who, together with Joe Louis, combated racial discrimination; the honest fighter who refused a million dollars to throw a fight against Rocky Graziano; the boxer who dreamed he would kill his opponent in the ring, and did so the following night. This Da Capo edition is supplemented with a new foreword and afterword by Dave Anderson about Sugar Ray's last years in Los Angeles and the legacy he left behind, and with eight new pages of stunning photographs. About the Author. Dave Anderson, sports columnist for the New York Times, has covered boxing for over twenty-five years. Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, he has written seventeen books. Sugar Ray Robinson, Boxing's 'Best,' Is Dead. Sugar Ray Robinson, the five-time world middleweight champion who was considered by many boxing experts to have been the best fighter in history, died yesterday in Culver City, Calif. He was 67 years old. Robinson, who died at Brotman Medical Center shortly after having been admitted, was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and diabetes. With his boxing artistry and knockout power in either fist, Robinson, who had also been the world welterweight champion, inspired the description ''pound for pound, the best,'' a phrase designed to transcend the various weight divisions. Ranked No. 1. In a 1984 book, ''The 100 Greatest Boxers of All Time,'' published by Bonanza Books, Robinson was ranked No. 1 by Bert Randolph Sugar, then the editor of The Ring magazine. In the author's opinion, Henry Armstrong was 2d, Harry Greb 3d, Jack Dempsey 4th, Benny Leonard 5th, Joe Louis 6th and Muhammad Ali 10th. ''Robinson could deliver a knockout blow going backward,'' Sugar wrote. ''His footwork was superior to any that had been seen in boxing up to that time. His hand speed and leverage were unmatchable.'' ''I agree with those who say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest,'' said Don Dunphy, the longtime ringside broadcaster. ''He's my choice for number one.'' Ali, who described himself as the Greatest, acknowledged that Robinson's ''matador'' style had been his inspiration in dethroning Sonny Liston as the heavyweight champion in 1964. Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, had asked Robinson to be his manager. ''You are the king, the master, my idol,'' Ali was fond of saying to Robinson. Over a quarter of a century, from 1940 to 1965, Robinson recorded 175 victories against 19 losses. Five of those losses occurred in the last six months of his career, after he turned 44 years old. He registered 110 knockouts, but he was never knocked out and he was stopped only once. In 1952, in a light-heavyweight title bout with Joey Maxim, he was far ahead on the judging cards and needed only to finish the 15th round to be awarded the decision. But he collapsed after the 13th round in 100-degree heat at Yankee Stadium and Maxim was credited with a knockout victory in the 14th round. ''Boxing is the art of self-defense,'' Robinson often said. ''You have to pattern your style for each fight against the style of the man you're fighting.'' Ruled Two Divisions. Robinson was undefeated in his first 40 bouts, with 29 knockouts. He lost a 10-round decision to Jake LaMotta in 1943, then extended his record to 128-1-2, with 84 knockouts, while ruling the welterweight division and later the middleweight division. He earned the 160-pound middleweight title in 1951, stopping LaMotta in the 13th round. Five months later he lost the title for the first time, on a 15-round decision, to Randy Turpin in London. Two months later, at the Polo Grounds, he regained the title from Turpin in a desperate and dramatic 10th-round knockout although he was bleeding from a cut above the left eye.