What is Sugar Ray Robinson?
[[File:Sugar Ray Robinson 1965 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Sugar Ray Robinson]] '''Sugar Ray Robinson''' (born '''Walker Smith Jr.''', May 3, 1921 – April 12, 1989) was an [[Americans|American]] [[Boxing|boxer]]. He won the [[welterweight]] and [[middleweight]] world championships. Many boxing [[historian]]s rank Robinson as the best boxer who ever lived. == Early life == Robinson was born in [[Ailey, Georgia]]. He moved to [[Harlem]], [[New York City]] when he was 12. == Career == He had no losses as an amateur boxer. He became a professional boxer in 1940 and won the welterweight title from [[Johnny Bratton]] in 1946. He then beat [[Jake LaMotta]] (who had, up to that time, been the only man to beat him) for the middleweight championship in 1951. He lost and regained the title from [[Randy Turpin]] before trying, and failing, to beat [[Joey Maxim]] for the [[light heavyweight]] championship in 1952. He retired later that year. He made a comeback, however, and won the middleweight title again in 1955. He lost it to [[Gene Fullmer]] in 1957, but defeated him in a rematch. Later that year [[Carmen Basilio]] also beat Robinson for the title, but Robinson defeated him in 1958 to get the championship back. == Death == Robinson continued to fight until the 1960s. He died of [[diabetes]] and [[Alzheimer's disease]] at the age of 67 in [[Culver City, California]] in 1989. == Other websites == * [http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=009625 Boxing record] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060420155133/http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=009625 |date=2006-04-20 }} * [http://www.cmgworldwide.com/sports/robinson/biography.html The Official Site of Sugar Ray Robinson] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080404093147/http://www.cmgworldwide.com/sports/robinson/biography.html |date=2008-04-04 }} {{start box}} {{succession box | before=[[Marty Servo]]<br />Vacated| title=World [[List of welterweight boxing champions|Welterweight Champion]]| after=[[Johnny Bratton]]| years=