Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Cliff Beckett - Revision history

Boxsoup at 18:23, 1 November 2014

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			'''Ray Robinson Stops Beckett'''<br>
			<small>Associated Press, April 21, 1950</small>

	Sugar Ray Robinson, the welterweight champion, showed young Cliff Beckett how to box, feint and counter-punch before putting him out for keeps late in the third round.		Sugar Ray Robinson, the welterweight champion, showed young Cliff Beckett how to box, feint and counter-punch before putting him out for keeps late in the third round.

	Beckett, of Sudbury, Canada, was bleeding profusely from cuts over his left eye and the back of the head when Referee Mutt Schwartz called a halt with 1:45 gone in the third~~. The non-title fight, which drew 2,231 fans, was scheduled for ten rounds~~.		Beckett, of Sudbury, Canada, was bleeding profusely from cuts over his left eye and the back of the head when Referee Mutt Schwartz called a halt with 1:45 gone in the third.

	~~In round two~~, ~~Robinson went to work with a flurry of lefts and then a straight right to the jaw. Beckett went down~~ for ~~nine. That's when he cut the back of his head~~.		The non-title fight, which drew 2,231 fans, was scheduled for ten rounds.

	~~Robinson took things easy until~~ the ~~beginning of the third. The clincher was another straight right.~~ Beckett ~~got up somewhere around~~ the ~~nine or ten count, blood streaming from the cuts. Referee Schwartz took~~ only a ~~passing look at him before raising~~ Robinson~~'s arm in token of victory~~.		Sugar Ray simply timed himself in the first round, hardly moving a glove while Beckett tried to force the fighting—but managing to connect only with a few lefts that Robinson took on his gloves.

	*'~~''Source:''' "Ray~~ Robinson ~~Stops~~ Beckett~~" '~~'The ~~Day'' (1950~~, ~~Apr~~. ~~21) p. 11~~. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19500421&id=t0g1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=qXEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3707,2236533~~\| Article~~]		In round two, Robinson began clowning around; once again picking off Beckett's ambitious lefts with his gloves, Midway, Robinson went to work with a flurry of lefts and then a straight right to the jaw. Beckett went down for nine. That's when he cut the back of his head.

			Robinson took things easy until the beginning of the third, before he repeated his left-right flurry—this time for good.

			The clincher was another straight right. Beckett got up somewhere around the nine or ten count, blood streaming from the cuts. He was obviously in no shape to continue and Referee Schwartz took only a passing look at him before raising Robinson's arm in token of victory. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19500421&id=t0g1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=qXEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3707,2236533]

Sweetscientist at 16:30, 14 April 2014

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	Beckett, of Sudbury, Canada, was bleeding profusely from cuts over his left eye and the back of the head when Referee Mutt Schwartz called a halt with 1:45 gone in the third. The non-title fight, which drew 2,231 fans, was scheduled for ten rounds.		Beckett, of Sudbury, Canada, was bleeding profusely from cuts over his left eye and the back of the head when Referee Mutt Schwartz called a halt with 1:45 gone in the third. The non-title fight, which drew 2,231 fans, was scheduled for ten rounds.

	*'''Source:''' "Robinson ~~Victor Over Cliff~~ Beckett" ''~~Reading Eagle~~'' (1950, Apr. 22) p. 9. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=~~1955~~&dat=~~19500422~~&id=~~-L4hAAAAIBAJ~~&sjid=~~Dp0FAAAAIBAJ~~&pg=~~4516~~,~~1392705~~\| Article]		In round two, Robinson went to work with a flurry of lefts and then a straight right to the jaw. Beckett went down for nine. That's when he cut the back of his head.

			Robinson took things easy until the beginning of the third. The clincher was another straight right. Beckett got up somewhere around the nine or ten count, blood streaming from the cuts. Referee Schwartz took only a passing look at him before raising Robinson's arm in token of victory.

			*'''Source:''' "Ray Robinson Stops Beckett" ''The Day'' (1950, Apr. 21) p. 11. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19500421&id=t0g1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=qXEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3707,2236533\| Article]

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Sugar Ray Robinson, the welterweight champion, showed young Cliff Beckett how to box, feint and counter-punch before putting him out for keeps late in the third round.

Beckett, of Sudbury, Canada, was bleeding profusely from cuts over his left eye and the back of the head when Referee Mutt Schwartz called a halt with 1:45 gone in the third. The non-title fight, which drew 2,231 fans, was scheduled for ten rounds.

*'''Source:''' "Robinson Victor Over Cliff Beckett" ''Reading Eagle'' (1950, Apr. 22) p. 9. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19500422&id=-L4hAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Dp0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4516,1392705| Article]