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Why didn't Sugar Ray Robinson get to fight in the Olympics?
Posted: 01 Feb 2014, 01:46
by Carlos Danger
Robinson was 85-0 or 85-2 as an amateur, whichever he had superstar written all over him, why didn't he have any olympics experience?
Re: Why didn't Sugar Ray Robinson get to fight in the Olympics?
Posted: 01 Feb 2014, 06:00
by SolomonDeedes
I guess if there'd been a 1940 Olympics he might well have been there - the war got in the way.
Re: Why didn't Sugar Ray Robinson get to fight in the Olympics?
Posted: 11 Feb 2014, 15:53
by Nile4000
Definitely the war, but Ray might have had other motives.