Which Light Heavyweights Could Ray Robinson Beat

I don't think it's a given Robinson would beat Maxim in cooler circumstances. I've seen Maxim look a hell of a lot better and more active than what he was that night - as he said at the time, he didn't have an air conditioner in his corner either.

 

:think

 

I found it strange Robinson was the one who collapsed and not Maxim. Black fighters usually take to the heat better than white fighters. Although depending on what climiate each fighter was used to living in and fighting in as well throughout their careers.

 

Comes down to environmental effects and not skin colour; if a white bloke had been living in outback Nigeria he'd take the heat better than a black American. I should imagine.

 

Maxim usually does not get credit for the body punches which sapped Robinson in the later rounds.

 

I think that people should give Robinson's BOXING abiliity more credit, forget about how his jab looked, and check the effectiveness of it, he was able to shut guys out at times with that single punch, it wasnt technically great, probably due to what Sweet Pea stated- its low setting, but it worked brilliantly imo

 

I think it's a little silly to describe Walcott as a "former Maxim victim" when he won two of their three fights officially and won 6-3-1 on the AP scorecard in the one he "lost."

 

It's one of those matches about which people romanticize and cast one man as the "tragic hero" who was a victim of circumstance, I think.

 

Nope.