SportsCentury: Sugar Ray Robinson

[Underboss]

[Terry A]

Underboss,

Thank you for posting that. I had never seen it and it was very good viewing.
SRR was one of my all time favories. There's a nostaglia about him and his era that I think is missing today.

[Underboss]

you're very welcome.

i've never seen it as well. i was searching google for videos of srr's prime fights and i came across his biography. it explained everything, some things people didn't know about ray robinson. a great biography.

[Benny Leonard]

There is another biography that played on HBO about Ray Robinson, very good. Every once in a while it shows on HBO.

SportsCentury is very good at making bio pics.

The Ray Robinson one is very good.


Good post


Youtube has many of his fights, plus great highlight clips.

Part 1:



Part 2



another highlight

[Underboss]

too bad robinson was never ritch. nobody back then was a millionaire.

[La_Vibora]

Yeah I have seen that before, thanks for sharing it again. Ray was truly a unique fighter and person. I once met an all timer who used to train at the same gym as Ray, he was a kid at the time, but he told me some of the crazy stuff he used to see Ray do at the gym that was just amazing.

[Underboss]

yea, i remember reading an article on ray robinson before he got into boxing, he was a troublemaker and the owner of the gym he went to kicked robinson out of the gym, and then robinson decided to come back and trrain for real.

[GAME]

too bad robinson was never ritch. nobody back then was a millionaire.

Robinson was rich for his time. Although his earnings might not seem much today but u have to factor inflation into the equation.

[Underboss]

Robinson was rich for his time. Although his earnings might not seem much today but u have to factor inflation into the equation.

he started earning low money, mostly 5,000 or 10,000 dollars fights. when he cleared the welterweight division he went to middleweight. THERE'S WHERE THE REAL CASH WOULD FLOW IN, he was earning 100,000$ and 500,000$ in championship fights.but i dont think he never reached the 1 million mark. he never had a huge house like the movie stars and directors had back in those days. he had a house in the bronx and a house in harlem, he owned 5 stores, a club, a restaurant, a barbershop, and more.... he had to sell those stores to pay the IRS because it was hitting robinson really hard. and at the end of his boxing career he retired with low money.

but i respect what he did. he fought until his late 40's because HE NEEDED THE MONEY not because he wanted,he was in desperate need of money. with that money he made from boxing in his lasts years, he built a youth program for kids. and after he made it. he started getting alzheimer..he had it for like 6 or 7 years until he died in 89.

it was really sad. if he was still alive these days i would of wanted to meet him.

[Underboss]

wat year this documentary was recorded.?