Nearly became light heavyweight champion. **We have the following information from our readers, it can be false and untruthful. Robinson’s jabs and power shots came at his opponents at breakneck speed. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, (1938 -

He won Golden Gloves titles as a featherweight in 1939 and as a lightweight in 1940.
*You Can send your information about net worth, height, weight, etc by the form or comment the post. With little money—Robinson helped his mother save for an apartment by earning change dancing for strangers in Times Square—the Smiths built their new life in a section of Harlem dominated by flophouses and gangsters. His career lasted 25 years.

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Considered one of the greatest boxers of all time, Sugar Ray Robinson was born in 1921.

Height dispute: Robinson's height is usually listed as 5'11", but he was often listed as 6'0" early in his career. "use strict";(function(){var insertion=document.getElementById("citation-access-date");var date=new Date().toLocaleDateString(undefined,{month:"long",day:"numeric",year:"numeric"});insertion.parentElement.replaceChild(document.createTextNode(date),insertion)})(); Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives. Robinson returned to the ring in 1954, recaptured the middleweight title from Carl (Bobo) Olson in 1955, lost it to and regained it from Gene Fullmer in 1957, yielded it to Carmen Basilio later that year, and for the last time won the 160-pound championship by defeating Basilio in a savage fight in 1958. He toured Army camps with. He is considered by many authorities to have been the best fighter in history. His son Ronnie was a roller derby skater.

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This page was last modified on 22 July 2020, at 11:27. Robinson's amateur record is usually listed as 85-0 with 69 knockouts, 40 in the first round. Robinson died in Culver City, California, in 1989. Publicity Listings Robinson had six fights with Jake LaMotta and won five of them. The United States Postal Service honored Robinson with a. Robinson was born Walker Smith Jr. Had an amateur boxing record of 85-0, with 69 knockouts, 42 in the first round. Sugar Ray Robinson, American professional boxer, six times a world champion: once as a welterweight (147 pounds), from 1946 to 1951, and five times as a middleweight (160 pounds), between 1951 and 1960. Considered one of the greatest boxers of all time, Sugar Ray Robinson held the world welterweight title from 1946 to 1951, and by 1958, he had become the first boxer to win a divisional world championship five times. Only stopped once in over 200 fights.