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  1.                                  But he gave up the 
  2.                                  welterweight title to go 
  3.                                  after the middleweight 
  4.                                  (160 pounds) champion-
  5.                                  ship. As a middleweight,
  6. Sugar Ray defeated Jake LaMotta (who had
  7. become a middleweight, too) in 1951 to
  8. earn the middleweight title. 
  9.  
  10. Sugar Ray lost the middleweight title to
  11. Randy Turpin, then regained it two months
  12. later. In 1952, he retired from professional
  13. boxing and became a singer and dancer.
  14. Two years later, Sugar Ray returned to the
  15. ring and won the middleweight title for the
  16. third time. 
  17.