Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Holly Mims
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Ray Robinson 160 lbs beat Holly Mims 160 lbs by UD in round 10 of 10
- Date: 1951-04-05
- Location: Miami Stadium, Miami, Florida, USA
- Referee: Eddie Coachman 100-87
- Judge: 100-88
"Sugar Ray Robinson pounded out a 10-round unanimous decision over tough and aggressive Holly Mims of Washington, DC, tonight in his first fight since winning the middleweight championship. The 23-year-old Mims, who had to drink several glasses of water at the weighing in ceremonies to come in over the 160-pound limit, opened an old cut over Robinson's left eye in the first round and surprised the champion several times by coming out of a crouch and scoring with lefts and rights to the jaw. Ray scored his only knockdown in the second round with a right and left to the head, but Mims was not seriously damaged. Mims was the aggressor most of the way." - Associated Press
Notes
- A crowd of 5,500 produced a gate of $17,000.
- There were scattered boos when the decision was announced.
- In his dressing room after the fight, Robinson was apologetic about his "bad showing" and blamed it on the virus infection that had postponed the bout from its original date of March 8. Robinson said. "I guess that virus had me worse than I thought. A couple of times I had him lined up, but I couldn't get him."