Which Light Heavyweights Could Ray Robinson Beat

ray robinson proved in his fight against the excellent Joey Maxim, that he was a great force even at light heavyweight. What LIght heavy great do you reckon he would of beaten

I reckon he could of beat most of them except for Ezzard Charles and ROY jONES ( he would of beat Jones at middle).

 

Robinson was at his best at 147; fighting at 175 he loses to an awful lot of rather brilliant fighters considering Maxim is probably not in most people's top 10 all time 175lbers....

 

You believe he could beat most? I can't think of a single one honestly.

 

i dont see him taking bob murphys best shots.

 

I'd heard that a good bit of the blame for his loss to Maxim was due to heat exhaustion. Fact or fiction?

 

Robinson's endearing traits would greatly suffer fighting the 175lbs'ers. His high output style of throwing sweeping uppercuts, looping hooks and slashing body punches would do well to make an impression on the good Light Heavyweights, but we're talking about the great ones.

Maxim was capable, not great, yet we never saw how a fight under average conditions would go between him and Robinson; Maxim fought a conserved fight with the heat and won.

Robinson was not a technical marvel - he won fights on 'out fighting' opponents with pace, speed and power - that would not count for much here - the great men of 175lbs would jab away and out muscle him without too much bother.

Men like Foster and Spinks would of sent him to an early grave.

 

fact

 

some good points, but i think sending him to a grave is a bit of an exageration. at his absolute peak i think robinson could of sneaked a decision most of the greats of the light heavy division.

his speed and combo were soemthing else

 

That's fair enough, Robinson was a ring marvel who makes great afternoon television for Ted Spoon, but his speed and combinations would not get the results he was used to. These are bigger men with a greater resistance to damage and much more impressionable strengths.

It's plasuable that some of the less capable and natural Light heavyweights may be out worked, but the great men of the weight would set the bar too high for Robinson to get over.

Tunney would have little trouble bullying Robinson and dictating matters, Loughran would bring the size, strength and style to shut him down, Conn would go in head first and out match him at whatever game he diecided to initiate.

The bangers like Foster and M. Spinks would really hurt the naural Welterweight. Yes, the left hook of Foster and uppercuts of Spinks would tear the far more slight Robinson's head off.

 

thomas hearns was built like robinson and started off at welterweight. he did very well at light heavyweight. he managed to carry the power up is well.

 

But that's Thomas Hearns, not Robinson.

Seriously, Robinson would get trashed by Archie Moore or Ezzard Charles.

 

Archie Moore would have knocked sugar ray out pretty badly if they had fought in 52. As for a charles-robinson fight.....FORGET IT! charles was like a bigger version of sugar ray

 

I would give him a fair chance against prety much any of them.

 

i agree totally with the latter statement. i rate charles in the top5 p4p.

ageless archie could be outboxed.

 

i would say his chances were 30-40% against most light heavies except for charles