SRR Obit: Great Boxing tidbits of info

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  1. Longhhorn71

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    SRR Obit: Great Boxing tidbits of info

    https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-sugar-ray-robinson-19890413-story.html

    Info example:

    "Robinson won the 1939 Golden Gloves featherweight championship in the old Madison Square Garden, then turned pro in 1940, fighting at 133 pounds. He earned $150 for winning on the undercard of the Henry Armstrong-Fritzie Zivic welterweight championship fight in which Armstrong, whom Robinson idolized, took a frightful drubbing from Zivic, a ring ruffian who used his head, his elbows and his thumbs as expertly as his fists.

    Robinson vowed to his mother, who despite earlier opposition to his fighting became a principal booster: "Mom, I want to fight Zivic. I'll fix him for the way he beat Armstrong."
     
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