Comments Thread For: Sugar Ray Robinson's Christmas Vacation

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By Corey Erdman - These days, there is precious little boxing that takes place over the holidays, save for the customary late-year shows in Russia and Japan. For promoters, it's a financially perilous decision to stage a show at this time of year, with potential ticket buyers and broadcast viewers' time and money already allocated in many places. For fighters, already laborers in a sport that requires a degree of separation from loved ones, having to do so over the holidays is something they'd prefer to avoid. Not to mention, holiday indulgence and making weight don't exactly go together like mashed potatoes and gravy.
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[Zaroku]

Japan always puts on fights year end!

It’s a big deal here!

[MikeyG]

Great read, thank you!

[Knuckle sandwich]

A very thought provoking read, I enjoyed it thank you

[Clegg]

Good article

[ThrowbackBoxing]

That was cool insight into a legend.

[Tibburon245]

Robinson wow what a fighter & what a career. In today's boxing he would have done the same.

[ShoulderRoll]

5 fights in 29 days.

But Ryan Garcia won't fight Mercito Gesta and prefers to have been out of the ring for almost a year by the time he fights Tank Davis.

He'll never stay sharp or reach boxing mastery that way.

[PredatorStyle]

Quite interesting about his 'entourage.' Didn't have any idea about that. Imagine fighting five times in a month and, from the sounds of it, spending the nights out meeting women. Of course, he wouldn't have needed a specific training camp or sparring because he was fighting constantly.

I think it's fair to say that 'folks were tougher in them days.'