How did ray robinson generate so much power?

[princemanspoper]

by avoiding any good black fighter with a pulse

[Miburo]

by avoiding any good black fighter with a pulse

I'm presuming you mean Burley, as that's the only possible name you could mention. He fought Gavilan, Turpin, etc.

[princemanspoper]

I'm presuming you mean Burley, as that's the only possible name you could mention. He fought Gavilan, Turpin, etc.

Holman Williams,Cocoa Kid,Jack Chase,Lloyd Marshall,Rory Calhoun,Spider Webb,Archie Moore

[TheGreatA]

Holman Williams,Cocoa Kid,Jack Chase,Lloyd Marshall,Rory Calhoun,Spider Webb,Archie Moore

You never responded to this post:

Cocoa Kid a welterweight contender in the early 1940's ranked below Jackie Wilson who beat him (and whom Robinson defeated twice). By 1943 he fought as a middleweight.

Jack Chase a middleweight for much of the 1940's until campaigning as a light heavy from 1945 onwards.

Charley Burley vs Ray Robinson could have been made but it wouldn't have done Robinson's welterweight campaign any good, since Burley left the welterweight division by 1941 (when Robinson was 19 years of age).

Archie Moore was a middleweight/light heavy. The only point in time this fight could have happened was in the late 1950's when both were old men. Robinson was more interested in a match-up with Floyd Patterson, the heavyweight champion.

Lloyd Marshall was another middleweight/light heavy. Tough to accuse a man of ducking a fighter who fought a division or two above his.

Eddie Booker yet another middleweight/light heavy whose career came to a sudden end in 1944.

Rory Calhoun the fringe middleweight contender in the late 1950's?

Webb was good but he couldn't beat Gene Fullmer in two attempts.

Robinson always beat his top ranked challenger whatever the colour of his skin.

Henry Armstrong was the number 1 welterweight contender before Robinson beat him.
Jackie Wilson was top 3.
Tommy Bell was number 1.
Bernard Docusen was top 3.
George Costner was top 2.
Kid Gavilan was number 1.

[Obama]

by avoiding any good black fighter with a pulse

You're racializing Black with African American aren't you?

Also, you seem to not think much of Joe Frazier, yet you keep using him as an avatar...

[princemanspoper]

You never responded to this post:

You're the very worst type of boxing fan.You know of it's history yet only choose to recognize it when it suits you and your arguments best.I saw your post and it's similar to the ones you have made in the past,Several of those men were perfectly capable of making 147 hell robinson had no problem fighting middleweight's it seems yet had no trouble avoiding these great black fighters

You're racializing Black with African American aren't you?

Go away,dunce

[TheGreatA]

You're the very worst type of boxing fan.You know of it's history yet only choose to recognize it when it suits you and your arguments best.I saw your post and it's similar to the ones you have made in the past,Several of those men were perfectly capable of making 147 hell robinson had no problem fighting middleweight's it seems yet had no trouble avoiding these great black fighters

Ray didn't fight them because it didn't make much sense, financially or rankings-wise. Point out a single top rated contender of any colour that Robinson didn't fight in the weight division he campaigned at (and I'm not talking about fringe contenders like Calhoun).

It's ignorant to blame Robinson for ducking career middleweights/light heavyweights when he himself was a welterweight. When he did fight middleweights in the 1940's, he fought top ranked men like Jake LaMotta, Jose Basora and Georgie Abrams.

At welterweight he fought top ranked black contenders (since it seems to be so important to you) California Jackie Wilson, Henry Armstrong, Kid Gavilan, George Costner, Tommy Bell. All of them were rated top 3 in the division.

He only made a serious campaign as a middleweight in 1950, when the likes of Chase, Marshall and Booker were long retired. Again, he fights the only top ranked black contenders Randy Turpin and Ray Barnes. He also fought Robert Villemain, Jose Basora, Bobo Olson, Jake LaMotta, Holley Mims and Rocky Graziano.

During his comeback, he was seriously considering a fight with Floyd Patterson, but Cus D'Amato turned it down.

Here's what Charley Burley had to say about the whole thing:

"Ray ducked me. George Gainford (Ray's manager) admitted that much. But, I can't say I blame him. There wasn't no money in us fighting each other. All we would have done is knock each other off."

"You know, to me the most remarkable thing about Ray's career is that he didn't even get a shot at the welterweight title til he was 26- or the middleweight title til' he was 30! You think he was the greatest? What do you think he'd a been if he'd gotten his chances when he deserved them? You wanna know the truth? If I coulda' got my shot, I wouldn't have risked it fighting someone like Ray."