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Sugar Ray Robinson Autographed 3x5 Card PSA SLAB Professional Boxing Champion
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You are bidding on a 3x5 card signed by Sugar Ray Robinson, mint ink,includes PSA COA.......
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Sugar Ray Robinson
(born
Walker Smith Jr.
; May 3, 1921 – April 12, 1989) was an American
professional boxer
who competed from 1940 to 1965. Robinson's performances in the
welterweight
and
middleweight
divisions prompted sportswriters to create "
pound for pound
" rankings, where they compared fighters regardless of weight. He was inducted into the
International Boxing Hall of Fame
in 1990.
[1]
He is widely regarded as the greatest boxer of all time, and in 2002, Robinson was ranked number one on
The Ring
magazine's list of "80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years".
[2]
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. From 1943 to 1951 Robinson went on a 91-fight
unbeaten streak
, the third-longest in professional boxing history.
[3]
[4]
Robinson held the world welterweight title from 1946 to 1951, and won the world middleweight title in the latter year. He retired in 1952, only to come back two-and-a-half years later and regain the middleweight title in 1955. He then became the first boxer in history to win a divisional world championship five times (a feat he accomplished by defeating
Carmen Basilio
in 1958 to regain the middleweight championship). Robinson was named "fighter of the year" twice: first for his performances in 1942, then nine years and over 90 fights later, for his efforts in 1951.
Renowned for his flamboyant lifestyle outside the ring,
[5]
Robinson is credited with being the originator of the modern sports "
entourage
". After his boxing career ended, Robinson attempted a career as an entertainer, but it was not successful. He struggled financially until his death in 1989. In 2006, he was featured on a commemorative stamp by the
United States Postal Service
.
.
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