Sugar Ray Robinson is lucky he didn't fight in this era

[TheGreatA]

1403 rounds boxed is an impressive number, but becomes much less impressive when you deduct the rounds boxed against bums. Does Floyd Mayweather get credit for all those rounds he boxed vs. the likes of Cooper and Giepert, let alone credit for not getting knocked out in those rounds? Of course not, and he shouldn't, but Robinson obviously does. Why? Because 95% of the posters on this board have never even seen him fight.

Forget about the bums he fought, count them as sparring sessions for all you care (which they essentially were, warm-ups/tune-ups, he wanted to stay active), Sugar Ray still had a ton of fights against top contenders and hall of famers.

In the year 1950 ALONE, Robinson had 19 fights, almost half of Mayweather's pro career, most of them against top ranked welterweight/middleweight opposition.

I won't make comparisons between the two. It's apples and oranges to me.

The truth.

[Guest]

1403 rounds boxed is an impressive number, but becomes much less impressive when you deduct the rounds boxed against bums. Does Floyd Mayweather get credit for all those rounds he boxed vs. the likes of Cooper and Giepert, let alone credit for not getting knocked out in those rounds? Of course not, and he shouldn't, but Robinson obviously does. Why? Because 95% of the posters on this board have never even seen him fight.

I won't make comparisons between the two. It's apples and oranges to me.