The greatest boxer no one talks about

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Sugar Ray Robinson - the pioneer and super champion in the 1950s

If you meet a man on the street and ask him to name two of the greatest boxers of all time, you will most likely hear Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson. The truth is, very few people would think of the sport's first great, a man who remains slightly underrated because of the categories in which he competes.

This is about Ray Robinson, known by his nickname "Sugar". The active career of the man born on May 3, 1921 as Walker Smith Jr. began phenomenally, and even in amateur boxing there was no loss - 85 successes, of which 69 were by knockout. Ray Robinson turned pro in 1940 and continued to compete until November 1965. In the years from 1946 to 1951, no one could take the welterweight title away from him, but his strongest period was the 1950s, when he won 5 world middleweight titles.

"Sugar" has also fought in light and light heavyweight. In his career, there are 202 matches, of which he won 175. He is one of the boxers who have knocked out more than 100 people. In fact, his exact number of knockout victories is 108. Among them is the success over Fritzi Zivic, who was only knocked out by Robinson in his 150-plus fights. And if you thought he lost the remaining 27 matches, he didn't - 6 of them ended in a draw and 2 were no winners due to an unintended injury to one of the two competitors.

Sports legends such as Joe Louis, "Sugar" Ray Leonard and even Muhammad Ali named Robinson as the greatest of all time. It is no accident that the specialists created the "pound for pound" system, or in a literal translation in Bulgarian "kilogram for kilogram", so that "Sugar" Ray Robinson could receive the recognition he deserves.

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