Sugar Ray Robinson "was to boxing what Shakespeare was to playwriting "

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  1. ThatOne

    ThatOne Boxing Addict Full Member

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    "He had speed, grace, heart, punch, style, intelligence, fluidity, character and will. He was the Einstein of the geometry of angles and distances. He was to boxing what Shakespeare was to playwriting.."


    https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/shame-boxing/

    The article is more about how dirty boxing can be.
     
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    What, a Gay Thief?
    :risas3::dancer2::ggg
     
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    I didn't know one of Robinson's opponents died. In the article he said he didn’t like boxing all that much. It was a way to make a living.
     
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    yes, Jimmy Doyle and I'm sure it effect like it did all fighters who have had to live with such a tragedy.

    Ray Robinson was the Greatest fighter of all and all the drive for poetic stylistic athletecism thereafter is probably down to him more than any other Fighter.

    A pleasure to watch.
     
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