How good was Ray Robinson?

gatti and sugar ray robinson in the same post? :admin

i need to go shower and be cleansed.

 

Here's a fair one. Jake LaMotta in the last 3 rounds of the 6th fight with Ray Robinson looked like Arturo Gatti.

 

SRR was the complete package.

He was quick, powerful, skilled, tough. He was stopped once in 200 fights, due to exhaustion. He wasn't THAT slick, however. His KO % (which is good, but not great) may be misleading. He carried quite a few guys, often on orders from the Mob.

 

It doesn't get any better, s34. Think of everything you look for in a great fighter; he was the whole package!

 

Yeah, he only had 202 fights. He should have had at least another 100-150...

 

I'll tell you Ray Robinson's best punch.

Right hook to the ribs, delivered with an inverted fist so the knuckles sink right in.

Yea, he could dazzle fighters with quick jabs and straights to the head, blast them in a round with scooping uppercuts and whipping hooks, but when faced by a tougher opponent; LaMotta, Basilio, Gavilan - the real moneymaker was the right hook. Even fighters of that caliber, though they wouldn't like to admit it, were shaken by that spear-point of a punch, a punch that sank deep like a knife to the hilt, right into that vulnerable area where the floating ribs are barely, barely protecting the vital organs beneath.

 

He did it better than James Bond, that's how good he was!

 

Your a Tyson fanatic. Even when a thread comes along about SRR, you have to stick Tyson's name into the mix.

SRR was a very tough individual and beat a level of opposition Tyson can't hold a candle to.

 

I agree with the first two, but strongly disagree on the third and suggest you take a very hard look at Robinson's career at middleweight compared with those of Monzon and Hagler.