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01/04/2008 Archived Entry: "SRR vs. PBF and Generational Prejudice"
SRR vs. PBF and Generational Prejudice
By Ted Sares
Courtesy of Eastsideboxing.com
You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid --Sugar Ray Robinson
If we compare either the fight itself or each of the two men ["Pretty Boy" Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Oscar De La Hoya] involved with the glory days of pugilist masters like Ray Robinson and the almost unbelievable fights he had, we are going way too far with the hype… Look at the facts, Robinson had over two hundred fights as a pro - over twice as many as both Oscar and Floyd combined. And Ray was never once legitimately KO'd. Fighters were just tougher back in Robbie's day. It's that simple. --James Slater
I confess to being an unabashed Robinson fan. In my recently published book, I included a piece (Chapter 50) on the top 100 fighters since 1950 and had Ray a firm number one. Here is what I said about him:
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