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By John F. McKenna (McJack): Sugar Ray Robinson, born Walker Smith, Jr. on May 3, 1921 is universally considered by most boxing historians to be the greatest
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He is Walker Smith, who boxed under the ring name of Sugar Ray Robinson and lit up the Forties and Fifties with a dazzling array of skill, power, good looks and, when he had to, tremendous courage. Claude Abrams pays homage to him. the greatest fighter of all-time
“HOW vain, without the merit, is the name,” says the poet Homer, who must’ve realized the power names have because of the image, identity and responsibility they imbue on their owners. Many of us were born with names that we’re stuck with from womb to tomb. Others change their names,…