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- Sugar Ray Robinson was
- a hero to generations of
- Americans, who admired
- his fancy style. Boxing
- great Muhammad Ali said
- Sugar Ray was his idol. He imitated RayΓÇÖs
- dancing style inside the ring. And Sugar Ray
- Leonard even borrowed his nickname!
-
- The original Sugar Ray was the world welter-
- weight boxing champion from 1946 to 1951.
- When he moved on to the middleweight
- division, he won that title five times.
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- In his 26-year boxing career, Sugar Ray won
- 174 times and lost 19. Ten of those losses
- came after he turned 40 years old. He
- recorded 109 knockouts in his lifetime,
- but he was knocked out only once.
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