Sports
Sugar Ray Robinson, generally considered the best pound-for-pound fighter who ever lived, died today in a Culver City hospital emergency room after a long illness.
April 12, 1989
Emile Griffith fought more main events there, and Beau Jack holds the record for selling out the house three times in a month.
April 16, 1989
Sugar Ray Robinson was the first fighter I ever heard of.
Legendary boxer Sugar Ray Robinson “personified class, style and dignity,” heavyweight champ Mike Tyson told more than 2,300 mourners who filled a Los Angeles church today for the five-time middleweight champion’s funeral.
April 19, 1989
Lifestyle
With his elegance and power, boxing’s Sugar Ray Robinson put the ‘sweet’ in the sweet science -- a fine new biography follows him through the change and turmoil of the 20th century.
Oct. 28, 2009
‘Sweet Thunder’ by Wil Haygood
Put Sugar Ray Robinson in a telephone booth and throw a handful of rice at point-blank range.
April 14, 1989
It’s hard not to be overwhelmingly confident when your last defeat in the ring came at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, so it makes sense that Floyd Mayweather Jr. sees himself as possibly the greatest boxer of all time.
April 21, 2015
Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson once toured Europe with a group that included his manager, secretary, masseur, barber, two trainers, a voice teacher, drama coach, golf pro and a pink Cadillac.
April 20, 1989
Obituaries
Sugar Ray Robinson, considered by many to have been the greatest prizefighter ever, died Wednesday at age 67.
April 13, 1989