🥊 Boxing · Welterweight / middleweight

Sugar Ray Robinson

United States · 1940–1965

173 wins, and the fighter every other fighter is measured against.

173–19–6
Record: 108
Knockouts: 5
Middleweight reigns: 128–1–2
First 131 fights

Career

Robinson went 128–1–2 in his first 131 fights and won the middleweight title five separate times. He combined a knockout punch with defensive skill and hand speed that contemporaries described as unfair, and the phrase 'pound for pound' was invented to describe him.

Honours

Welterweight and five-time middleweight world champion
The original 'pound for pound' fighter
Went unbeaten in his first 40 professional fights
Ranked the greatest boxer of all time by numerous publications

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