Sweet Thunder
Clips from an amazing book just released by Wil Haygood. An excellent illustration of just how amazing Sugar Ray Robinson was at boxing. He hung with the coolest cats in the 50′s and early 60′s, Ellington, Davis, Horne, Elvis…legendary status to be sure. For the npr story click here.
Lamotta, Ray, Detroit 1943..this was only the beginning of the war.
Lamotta was never the same after this beating.
13 round brutal TKO win.
Beautiful shot of Ray taking out Turpin