Sugar Ray Robinson

We cap the week off with sheer history.

Sugar Ray Leonard stepped in against Donny Lalonde with two belts on the line.

Leonard took some heavy shots early, got off the canvas in round four and unleashed a blistering barrage in the ninth to stop Lalonde.

In doing so, Ray became the second four-division world champion and the first ever five-division champion.

Pure poetry in motion.

That's your rewind for the week, Ring fans.

The winner and welterweight champion of the world, in the grand bloody ledger of the sweet science, heavyweight may carry the crown, but the welterweights carry the soul.

147 pounds, the golden mean, the exact biological crossroad where the blinding hand speed of a lightweight runs head-on into the skull-cracking torque of a middleweight.

I love the idea.

So back in the day, Sugar Ray Robinson used to do that.

He used to take, like, non-title fights and he would go and just rattle off a bunch of wins in Europe and he'd just go and knock guys out in different towns.

Tyson kind of did

So, yeah.

There's no argument on 958 as the 100-meter dash, but you could say Floyd Mayweather is better than Muhammad Ali, and I could say Sugar Ray Robinson, and he could say Roy Jones.

It's subjective in fight, and it's objective in flight, but they are two sides of the same coin.

So you have this perfect balance where your ability to move will determine your ability to fight.

He really was.

We witnessed that with Ray Robinson.

I know Ray Robinson got rid of him.

But there was a terrific...

I think they had a couple of fights.

And now, again, I mean, with Alan Sugar, Ray Robinson... his career profile um you know so many fights you just lose track of how many they had but bacillo was a fantastic fighter uh heavy-handed and as i say it to you know gavilan kid gavilan was it was another he just had it you know 100 fights over 100 fights we didn't quite specifically go and find out exactly how many but over 100 fights only art williams had ever put him down and i mean over 100 fights that's how tough he was and that's how tough bacillo was to put him down The whole round is there, but it's a bit, you know, it's in black and white.

Is it really three minutes as well? I'm not quite sure it is.

I think there's bits