the majority of fights Joe louis & Sugar Ray Robinson had were against white dudes..

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So why should they always get mentioned as two of the greatest of all-time?? :dwillhuh:

Its kind of similar to the old school "greats" like russell & wilt..they dominated due to the lack of black ballers in that era

the best overall era of boxing was in the 80's(the 70's was the best for heavyweights) and we didn't see any truly great white boxers at the time, and Larry Bird & Stockton were the last great white american hope of the 80's as well..
 

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like russell & wilt..they dominated due to the lack of black ballers in that era
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This Why I give Floyd the edge over Sugar Ray Robinson, Floyd would never get knocked through the ropes like Robinson did but someone as basic as Jake Lamotta
And let not pretend like Jake Lamotta was some heavy puncher, he only had 28 percent KO ratio lmao, cats were acting they these dudes are knocking everyone out back then
Also Most of Robinson's fights were 10 round fights, like 90 percent of them, but people assume they were all 15 it goes to show most people have no clue what they are talking about

Also their records are padded with bums

people bring up Locche has the best defensive fighter of all time, but fail to bring up his competition, because the majority of his 136 were not against world class competition in Argentina

and He has a total of 6 champion fights, he won 1 world title, the WBA light welterweight title at the age of 29 against a jap, defended it 5 times before he lost and never became champion again

Also the number one go to arguing is the amount of fight the guys had, and it had it took a lot of them etc

Keep this is mind, the first year Floyd turned pro he fought 11 times that year, so if he fought the same level of comp for three years straight he could've easily been 40-0 at 23 like Canelo, or if he didn't fight for his first world title until 29 like Locche, he would've easily been 100-0 by that time

but the difference was he became a champion a year after turning pro only fighting the world class competition ever since, yet people like to bring his resume into question, it's truly disgusting

Sugar Ray Robinson with all these fights, people don't realize he would have a lot of non title fights inbetween title defenses

Mayweather is 25-0 in Title fights, Ray Robinson is 16-4

Locche is 5-1

Comparing the old era to modern fighters is just a waste of time
 

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Yeah but put suger ray Robinson in this era with modern facilities he would dominate even more



Who did he have to model his game after? No one
this is what people don't understand. for everything easy you can perceive about fighting back then, there is also a great challenge.

ray robinson didn't get to take any inflammatory shot injections. if you were banged up guess what you still fighting. Robinson didn't get to watch film or study his opponents fighting style. his sparring partners were the same group of guys for each contest.

shyt I'd prolly give them more props for fighting back then too be honest.
 

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this is what people don't understand. for everything easy you can perceive about fighting back then, there is also a great challenge.

ray robinson didn't get to take any inflammatory shot injections. if you were banged up guess what you still fighting. Robinson didn't get to watch film or study his opponents fighting style. his sparring partners were the same group of guys for each contest.

shyt I'd prolly give them more props for fighting back then too be honest.
All these current fighters..where do y'all think their style of fighting comes from
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