Sugar Ray Robinson

Local news, events, sports & more from Hudson County, NJ Ray Robinson II attending Jersey City Library's concert Sugar Ray Robinson's son will be in the audience at tonight's musical performance at the Jersey City Free Public...

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...the Atlantic, once astonishing some stewards who had been warned never to go into New York by taking them to their old friend Sugar Ray Robinson's bar in Harlem. The brothers never retired completely. Settling in a bungalow at Dunstable...

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...Muhammad Ali), Floyd Patterson, Archie Moore, Emile Griffith, Joe Frazier, George Foreman (twice), Sugar Ray Leonard, Sugar Ray Robinson, Tommy Hearns, Julio Caesar Chavez, Salvador Sanchez, Alexis Arguello, Aaron Pryor, Bobby Foster,...

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...death doesn't mean a sport should be abolished. If that were the case, auto racing should be abolished. So should football." - Sugar Ray Robinson THE GREATEST boxer ever to lace up a pair of padded gloves told collaborator Dave Anderson...

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...legendary boxing writer Bert Randolph Sugar picks his greatest fighters of all-time putting Ali, No. 7 behind (from top to bottom) Sugar Ray Robinson, Henry Armstrong, Willie Pep, Joe Louis, Harry Greb and Benny Leonard. But who do you pick...

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...bio BY HENRY C. JACKSON Associated Press Until now. Wil Haygood's new biography of Robinson, Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson (Knopf, 464 pages, $27.95), is about as fine a book about a boxer as you will find - up...

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...routes to get there today. But back in the 1960s, you had to be the best." Giardello fought greats such as Gene Fullmer, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Dick Tiger. Out of 133 fights, he won 101 (33 by knockouts), lost 25, and tied 7 times. He...

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...have tried and failed to render a full portrait. Until now. Wil Haygood's new biography of Robinson, "Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson," is about as fine a book about a boxer as you will find - up there with the...

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...muscle pulling all the biographical and historical freight. "Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson" "Sugar Ray Robinson was a man of music -- you could see it in the way he fought," Haygood begins one chapter. "And...

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