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A big heavyweight title fight in on the horizon, so of course boxing is about to get crazySome people get annoyed by the process of how big fights are set up. For me, it’s the one time that I love raw, unregulated capitalism. People openly doing whatever it takes to get as much guaranteed money as possible, and as many eyeballs on the screen as possible....

Pound For PoundHere is an NPR interview with Wil Haygood, author of the Sugar Ray Robinson biography,Sweet Thunder....

Sugar Ray Robinson Busts A MoveSugar Ray and Gene Kelly....

The Elements of Style: "I Never Liked Fighting"

My father wasn’t a boxing fan but talked about Sugar Ray Robinson with admiration. Robinson was a brutal and efficient fighter, I was told, “pound-for-pound, the greatest boxer of all-time."...

Can I Have Your Autograph?

Ray Robinson? Terrific guy—great guy, in fact. ...

The Longest Day Of Sugar Ray: A Boxing Great Becomes A Sideshow Freak

Originally published by True magazine in 1964. Reprinted here with the author's permission....