Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arriving in Berlin on his triumphal tour of Europe, Middleweight Boxing Champion Sugar Ray Robinson (TIME, June 25) ran into some peculiar local customs. In the first round of an exhibition match, he floored Germany's Gerhard Hecht, who promptly claimed that he had been fouled. When Robinson protested, the referee explained that a kidney punch is illegal in Germany, adding: "I have to call it a foul. I want to leave the ring alive." When Robinson flattened Hecht again, after an impromptu, one-minute rest period, he soon found out what the referee meant-and learned a little...
...little difficult at first for some to believe that the offer was not just a pressagent's stunt. A New York Times sports columnist summed up the reaction: "Fight for nothing? Who? Sugar Ray Robinson? Oh, no! It can't be. There must be some angle there!" But if there was an angle, Robinson rounded the corner on two wheels, gunned down a new straightaway. He now thoroughly enjoys his new personality as the responsible citizen. He is a big man in Harlem, a political power, who is often on the phone with his good friend Mayor Impellitteri...
...Gets You." At ease in his Paris suite last week, Sugar Ray was riding th crest of the wave. He is surrounded by an admiring entourage of eleven, including a French midget (for the laughs), a personal golf pro, and a private barber who spends hours touching up Robinson's unscarred good looks with facials and hair-straightening treatments. Unlike many, another boxer, Robinson has invested his ring earnings in a series of profitable businesses: Sugar Ray's Café, a barbershop, a drycleaning establishment...
Ahead of him are more Runyon Fund tours, to Italy, Scandinavia, possibly Israel. And this week Sugar Ray is settling down to the serious business of getting ready for a title defense against British Empire (and European) Middleweight Champion Randy Turpin next month. Turpin, at 23, is a real challenge to the champion, a fighter with the power, if not the ring-wise skill of Robinson himself. In 50 fights, young Turpin has been beaten only once (by France's Jean Stock). Since he won his title last October, Turpin has knocked out seven opponents in a row, including...
...Joey Maxim. Robinson says he will not fight Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles under any circumstances. But Maxim is something else again. Though Robinson is too politic to mention it, the light heavyweight crown is the only major world title not held by a Negro. Besides, says Good Businessman Ray Robinson, "it's a good money match...