Sugar Ray... - Vintage & Iconic African American Everything

Sugar Ray Robinson rolled back the years for one electrifying burst of power #OnThisDay in 1957 to knock out middleweight champion Gene Fuller with an inch-perfect left hook to the chin in the fifth round in front of 14,757 fans at the Chicago Stadium. Thus Robinson, the greatest ever to lace them up, became the first man to win the world middleweight crown four times. Robinson later called the shot "the most perfect punch of my career.” Fullmer recalled: "I didn't know anything about being hit.