The Sugar Ray Robinson Story

Boxing's Comeback King

John Jarrett

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785316135
• Year: 2019

Over 25 years Sugar Ray Robinson ruled three divisions, from lightweight to middleweight. As a kid he had danced for pennies on the streets of Harlem, and he danced again in the ring from New York and Vegas to Paris and back again. After a brilliant amateur career he turned pro in 1940 and won his first 40 contests before Jake LaMotta snapped his streak of 123 fights. He was unbeaten over the next nine years and would beat LaMotta in five of their six fights, taking his middleweight title. One of Ray's toughest fights was with Uncle Sam over his $4 million fight earnings. He built and lost a Harlem business empire before retiring from the ring and entering showbiz. The great fighter eventually settled down with his third wife, Millie, in California where he set up the Sugar Ray Robinson Youth Foundation. 

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• 1. In the Beginning
• 2. Beating a Champ
• 3. Meet Jake LaMotta
• 4. Sugar Ray’s Revenge
• 5. In and Out of the Army
• 6. Sugar Ray is the Champion – Official
• 7. Kid Gavilan and Steve Belloise
• 8. The Flamingo Pink Cadillac
• 9. Le Sucre Marvilleaux
• 10. Taming the Raging Bull
• 11. Paris in his Legs
• 12. Getting the Title Back – One!
• 13. A Fight Too Far
• 14. Those Dancing Feet
• 15. The Comeback
• 16. Sugar Ray Owns Bobo
• 17. That Punch!
• 18. A Good Little ’Un Beats a Good Big ’Un
• 19. Sugar Ray – Super Champ
• 20. Sugar Ray – Not So Sweet
• 21. Pender Does the Double
• 22. The Last Chance Saloon
• 23. Still Chasing the Title
• 24. Have Gloves, Will Travel
• 25. Twenty-Five Years – the Last Mile
• 26. All Over, Like a Wedding
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Photos