The claim has been used to describe many boxers, but it was invented for Sugar Ray Robinson ... a unanimous decision over future champ Kid Gavilan on July 11, 1949. Then he moved up and won ...
They said, he just won, they counted to 10," said former middleweight champion Gene Fullmer about Sugar Ray Robinson on ESPN ... decision over future champ Kid Gavilan on July 11, 1949.
La Motta is reported to have quipped: "I fought Sugar Ray so often I almost got diabetes…" The bloodiest of the encounters between the two, dubbed the ‘St. Valentine’s Day Massacre,’ saw Robinson ...
Bell was a tough guy who had taken a peak Sugar Ray Robinson 15 rounds for the title ... Billy Graham would appear again later in the Kid Gavilan story. 1951 would be a big year for Gavilan.