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Sugar Ray Robinson

1921 - 1989

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Walker Smith Jr. (May 3, 1921 – April 12, 1989), better known as Sugar Ray Robinson, was an American professional boxer who competed from 1940 to 1965. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990. He is often regarded as the greatest boxer of all time, pound-for-pound, and is ranked as such by BoxRec as of April 2025. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sugar Ray Robinson is the 7th most popular boxer (down from 6th in 2019), the 1,167th most popular biography from United States (down from 596th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Boxer.

Sugar Ray Robinson is most famous for being the first boxer to win the world welterweight and middleweight titles in the same year.

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Among BOXERS

Among boxers, Sugar Ray Robinson ranks 7 out of 496. Before him are Muhammad Ali, Rocky Marciano, Joe Frazier, Mike Tyson, George Foreman, and Joe Louis. After him are Max Schmeling, Ján Zachara, Vitali Klitschko, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Sonny Liston, and Rubin Carter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Sugar Ray Robinson ranks 52. Before him are Alida Valli, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Georges Brassens, Kenneth Arrow, James Jones, and Abdul Salam Arif. After him are Gérard Debreu, Yitzhak Navon, Jack Steinberger, Telmo Zarra, Zdeněk Miler, and Geoffrey Wilkinson. Among people deceased in 1989, Sugar Ray Robinson ranks 37. Before him are Michel Aflaq, John Hicks, Daphne du Maurier, Hermann Oberth, William Shockley, and John Cassavetes. After him are Giuseppe Siri, Danilo Kiš, Leon Festinger, Cornel Wilde, Bruce Chatwin, and Charles J. Pedersen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sugar Ray Robinson ranks 1,167 out of 20,380. Before him are George A. Romero (1940), Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1891), Toni Braxton (1967), George O. Abell (1927), Matthew C. Perry (1794), and Frank Caprio (1936). After him are John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), Charles Best (1899), John Dos Passos (1896), Thorstein Veblen (1857), Mark Zuckerberg (1984), and Clifford Geertz (1926).

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Among BOXERS In United States

Among boxers born in United States, Sugar Ray Robinson ranks 7. Before him are Muhammad Ali (1942), Rocky Marciano (1923), Joe Frazier (1944), Mike Tyson (1966), George Foreman (1949), and Joe Louis (1914). After him are Floyd Mayweather Jr. (1977), Sonny Liston (1932), Rubin Carter (1937), Marvelous Marvin Hagler (1954), Jake LaMotta (1922), and Jack Dempsey (1895).

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