Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Charley Fusari

Sugar Ray Robinson hits Charley Fusari with a right

Ray Robinson 147 lbs beat Charley Fusari 145 lbs by PTS in round 15 of 15

• Date: 1950-08-09
• Location: Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
• Referee: Paul Cavalier 13-1

• World Welterweight Championship (5th defense by Robinson)
• Photo #2, Photo #3
• Tale of the Tape

Notes

• At the official weigh-in, Robinson was 147¼ when he first stepped on the scale. After a couple of trips to a steam box, he was able to make the welterweight limit.
• This was Robinson's last fight as a welterweight.
• Robinson was paid one dollar for the Fusari fight. The rest of his purse went to the Damon Runyon Memorial Fund for Cancer Research.
• In his autobiography, Robinson claimed that he agreed to carry Fusari the 15-round distance.

External Link

• Sugar Ray by Sugar Ray Robinson and Dave Anderson, Da Capo Press, 1969