On July 4, the best American boxers, decade by decade, Sugar Ray Robinson
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July 4, 2025
Source: Boxing Scene
1950s: Sugar Ray Robinson
Despite retiring in 1952, Robinson gets the nod in this decade as well – not least because after coming out of retirement two-and-a-half years later, he promptly won the middleweight title not once, not twice, but three more times. He also lost and regained the crown before his retirement and in his last outing before his hiatus, came close to adding the light-
heavyweight title too, until both he and the referee were felled by heat. Even though he showed the first signs of mortality, he still went 41-5 during the decade, with victories over Hall-of-Famers Carl Olson, Rocky Graziano, Jake LaMotta, Gene Fuller, and Carmen Basilio.
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