On July 4, the best American boxers, decade by decade, Sugar Ray
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July 4, 2025
Source: Boxing Scene
1940s: Sugar Ray Robinson
How good was U S. boxing in the 1940s? Joe Louis went 15-0 this decade; he was heavyweight champion on January 1, 1940, and he was still champ when he retired on March 1, 1949, but he doesn’t get the nod. Nor does Willie Pep, who began the decade as an amateur and ended it as a two-time featherweight champ with a record of 143-2-1 – and survived a plane crash! The choice here is Robinson, who won the welterweight championship in 1946, was never beaten at the weight, lost in the 1940s only to Jake LaMotta at middleweight – a result he would avenge five times – and compiled a record of 101-1-2 during the decade. This was the best decade in the career of the best boxer who ever lived.
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