"The bitter end for Sugar Ray" ...S.I. Vault article 11/22/65

The bitter end for Sugar Ray
Five times the middleweight champion, Ray Robinson discovers at 45 that it is far better to retire than to keep struggling for the unattainable

By Martin Kane
https://www.si.com/vault/1965/11/22/621685/the-bitter-end-for-sugar-ray#

"So, on a Wednesday night in Pittsburgh, SRR faced the blue-eyed, broken-nosed Archer before a crowd of 9,023, many of them oldtimers who fondly remembered Robinson in his glory days, and among them a sprinkling of younger men who wanted to see what the legend was about....etc, etc.