[Baba Ahmed]

Originally Posted by Basil

Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest boxer EVER! And that's saying alot since cats been fighting since the 1700's.

Only fighter I ever saw who had one punch knockout power moving BACK!

I read an article about him one time, and it was a ring magazine article and they were talking about the best fighters and they were saying stuff like what could the fighter have done to make his standing higher.

So they'd say stuff, like Joe Louis could've retired earlier, or Rocky Marciano could have fought a little longer stuff like that, they get to #1 and its Robinson and they "What could he have done to have made his standing higher on this list?

Walk on water"

Could've, should've and would've's can't hold much water, BUT; he could've paced himself a lil longer in the fight for the Light Heavyweight World's Championship in the stiffling heat of Yankee Stadium and completed kik'n the reigning champ's white a.s.s. Then, I think, he'd held 4 different weight class Championships: Lightweight, Welterweight, Middleweight AND Lightheavy Belts!!! That was a difference of 120 some pounds to 175 pounds.

But onareal, I've never understood why or how media freaks compare athletes' abilities in their professions.

I've always thought that Muhammad 'Ali copied some of Sugar Ray's dancing moves, head movements and punching while moving side ways and/or backwards. Like now there were plenty highly skilled fighters during those times. But the Mafia decided who's who and who'd fight who, alone with a line of crooked promoters.

I've seen a few of his filmed fights, he set standards for many different weight class fighters. Plus he wasn't broke when he passed on. Called a "Pretty Boy" to my knowledge, he had one wife.