But in the rematch 2 months later, Sugar Ray would regain his title. In his battles with Gene Fullmer and Carmen Basilio for the middleweight title in the late 1950s, Robinson displayed his ...
first time Fullmer was ever knocked out. Robinson resumed the pattern later that year, this time with 5-foot-6 Carmen Basilio, who was five inches shorter than Robinson. Sugar Ray cut open Basilio ...
Sugar Ray Robinson, to the end ... the middleweight champion and Gene Fullmer twice. At 41, he fought Denny Moyer, a tough as barb wire fighter, out of Portland Oregon, twice and followed that ...
Sugar Ray Robinson knocked out Jake LaMotta in February 1951 to kick ... Robinson had just regained The Ring and lineal middleweight titles in a rematch with Gene Fullmer and he did it emphatically ...
They said, he just won, they counted to 10," said former middleweight champion Gene Fullmer about Sugar Ray Robinson on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series. "Pound for pound, the best." ...